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A practical response would be to socialize the property rights over the large income streams capital is now generating.
It now enforces rules, regulations, and property rights for real estate and other assets, for starting a business, for employment, and for international trade and investment – all of which has made China’s economic rise possible.
The Chinese people are no longer satisfied with rule by law and are demanding an end to systemic corruption, inadequate land rights, discrimination against migrant workers, state-owned enterprises’ privileged position, and weak protection of intellectual property.
Janissaries were not allowed to marry or to own property, which prevented them from developing loyalties outside of the imperial court.
Growth requires a dramatic advance in economic institutions (property rights, the legal process, a curtailing of corruption) and a major advance in privatization including, agriculture.
Will you support the initiative of developing countries to have a development-oriented intellectual property regime?
TRIPs, the intellectual property provisions of the Uruguay round, were designed to reduce access to generic medicines – and they succeeded.
Sheila Coronel, a distinguished investigative journalist and the academic dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has found that the list of illicit rewards includes profits from extortion, property commandeered from victims, ransom for kidnapped suspects, and even commissions from funeral parlors.
Property rights must be clear and secure; those carrying out the transactions must have the legal right to control and transfer the items traded.
If people devote more of their income to competing for scarce housing, driving up property prices and rents, GDP and “productivity” increase, because housing rent is included in GDP, even if the aggregate supply of housing services is unchanged.
If rents and commuting costs are driven up by intense competition for attractively located property, you can’t pay for them out of freely arising “consumer surplus.”
Pensions have been reduced by 40%, on average, while the middle class is suffering under the weight of crippling new property taxes.
Tax hikes for high-income earners and large property owners would help to finance these expenditures, while increases in the minimum wage would round out income redistribution efforts.
For many years, economists have been arguing that private property and competition are good for productivity and investment, relying upon a comparison between the natural gas and oil sectors.
It is particularly ironic that many Kurds from Turkey’s southeastern provinces, having been promised Armenian property and a guaranteed place in heaven for killing infidels, were willingly complicit in the genocide.
Investment rose from 42% of GDP in 2007 to 48% in 2010, with property and infrastructure projects attracting the most funding.
This property boom resembled Japan's in the late 1980s, which ended in a bust that led to a protracted period of anemic growth and deflation from which the country is still struggling to escape.
As the property boom wanes, their debts become increasingly unsustainable – a situation that has already reportedly compelled some local governments to borrow money for land purchases to prop up prices.
Property sales have fallen, particularly outside the largest cities, and slower construction growth has left heavy industry facing severe overcapacity.
Though population stabilization could exacerbate the dangers of excessive property investment today, it will also tighten labor markets and stimulate wage increases.
Rich countries are places where investors feel secure in their property rights, the rule of law prevails, private incentives are aligned with social objectives, monetary and fiscal policies are solidly grounded, risks are mediated through social insurance, and citizens have recourse to civil liberties and political representation.
In China, there is no such protection, because private property was not legally recognized until recently, and the court system is not independent.
So the efficacy of enhancing property rights by rewriting domestic legislation - changing the formal aspects of the institutional environment - is naturally uncertain.
In a system where courts cannot be relied upon to protect property rights, letting the government hold residual rights in an enterprise may have been a second-best mechanism for avoiding expropriation.
China could provide a semblance of effective protection of private property despite the absence of formal rights.
It is also remarkable that Juncker managed to get Trump to emphasize working with the World Trade Organization to resolve issues regarding intellectual property rights.
Everyone extols property rights.
By contrast, democratic regimes with widespread property ownership typically best protect property rights over the long term, because enough people in the polity want to protect property.
Both the uprising and the Indian security forces’ response have caused widespread casualties and destruction of property, all but wrecking Kashmir’s economy, which depends largely on tourism and handicrafts.
Official corruption, insecure property rights, stifling regulatory restraints, weak payment discipline, poor logistics and distribution, widespread counterfeiting, and vulnerability to other forms of intellectual-property theft: all of these obstacles increase transaction costs and make it difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive in domestic markets.
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