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Topping the list is the need for stronger legal institutions that protect property rights and ensure that contracts are enforced.
This new infrastructure will boost property values in Barra da Tijuca, while doing nothing to improve Rio’s horrendous street traffic.
At the top, the incomes of the mega-rich have soared, with predictable repercussions, especially in the property market.
Cheap money with limited investment outlets now risks fueling property bubbles and industrial overcapacity.
Already squeezed by exorbitant property prices and popular resistance to land takings, they now face higher interest rates, property taxes, villagers empowered by stronger rights, and expensive new requirements to provide social services to migrants.
The cost of such events in terms of destroyed property and economic disruption has been rising steadily.
What began as a unique American model in 1980, when the US Congress turned over to universities intangible intellectual property arising from federally supported academic research, has spread to such diverse countries as the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Zambia.
Poor countries have barely any voice in these institutions, because voting rights are apportioned according to countries' wealth--not unlike the bygone practice of conditioning the franchise on property ownership.
Under President Barack Obama, the US accused China of engaging in cyber espionage against American firms and stealing their intellectual property.
While most economists marvel at Trump’s ignorance of how trade balances work, many broadly agree with his charges regarding intellectual property (IP).
The report acknowledges that since 2015 – when China and the US agreed that neither would “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information for commercial advantage” – the number of detected incidents of Chinese cyber-espionage has declined.
The truth is that China has been making steady progress in its protection of property rights.
The provisions on intellectual property rights, accounting, and conflict resolution were so favorable to Wall Street and US lawyers that they have been criticized for being unfair to the other parties.
But if one redefines an accident to include incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than $50,000 in property damage, a very different picture emerges.
Another index of nuclear-power accidents – this one including costs beyond death and property damage, such as injured or irradiated workers and malfunctions that did not result in shutdowns or leaks – documented 956 incidents from 1942 to 2007.
The meltdown of a 500-megawatt reactor located 30 miles from a city would cause the immediate death of an estimated 45,000 people, injure roughly another 70,000, and cause $17 billion in property damage.
States from California to Texas now routinely collect previously local property taxes to fund schools, and then redistribute them to local school districts.
Homes are most Americans’ major retirement asset, and, despite a recent pickup, housing prices are still 28% below their 2006 peak, while 28% of all homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their property is worth.
France, in the aftermath of a property and asset-price bubble, is vulnerable to some of the same combination of banking and public-finance problems.
Liberal democracy rests on three distinct sets of rights: property rights, political rights, and civil rights.
Property rights and political rights both have powerful beneficiaries.
Property rights are of interest primarily to the elite – owners and investors.
Their demands for equal rights therefore do not have the potency that demands for property and political rights have.
This makes credible both their threat of insurrection before the bargain and their promise to protect property rights afterwards.
So the democratic bargain yields property and political rights, but only rarely civil rights as well.
When the apartheid government negotiated with the African National Congress prior to the 1994 democratic transition, it demanded (and received) property and civil rights for the white minority in exchange for political rights for the black majority.
Or maybe both are needed to sustain institutions that uphold property, political, and civil rights in the long term.
We took up arms only to protect ourselves and our property from an immediate extreme Islamist threat that tolerated no dissent.
Also reminiscent of the TPP, there are provisions for the digital economy and the extension of intellectual property rights in areas like copyright and biologics data – wins for US corporations and setbacks for anti-globalizers.
For China, this means respecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, allowing non-Chinese firms to compete on an equal basis, and setting its currency at a fair level rather than one that is artificially low.
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