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Indeed, two thousand people have been arrested over the last three years for such crimes as abuse of power and misappropriation of state property.
This dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of Indonesia’s minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations – even though they cross borders and could pose a pandemic threat to all the world’s peoples.
Capital flight is most likely to be sparked by uncertainty regarding good governance, political stability, civil liberties, accountability, property rights, and corruption.
The US was founded as a representative democracy, but only a small fraction of its citizens – mostly white male property owners – were eligible to vote.
In an environment where power and property are inseparable and all government institutions are emasculated, a major transfer of authority at the top may lead to violent redistribution.
As migrants move between markets with well-defined property rights, immigration in principle is beneficial for both the immigrants and the target country.
South Africa eventually won its case, but the government learned its lesson: it did not try again to put its citizens’ health and wellbeing into its own hands by challenging the conventional global intellectual property (IP) regime.
In a new paper, we review the arguments about the role of intellectual property in the process of development.
The powerful advanced-economy lobbies that have shaped that regime clearly put the latter first, reflected in their opposition to provisions recognizing intellectual property rights associated with traditional knowledge or biodiversity.
Undeniably liberal ideas dominate the program: strengthening and protecting property rights, deregulation, and encouraging competition.
Property rights are ultimately sanctioned by society, and, to the extent that they seem to be unfair, society has an incentive to change them.
On August 14, he instructed the US Trade Representative to commence investigating Chinese infringement of intellectual property rights.
Similarly, 53% of companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project reported that water risks are already taking a toll, owing to property damage, higher prices, poor water quality, business interruptions, and supply-chain disruptions.
In Russia, the Revolution of the 1990s has clearly entered its stabilization phase: there is broad acceptance of the market and private property; the period of feeble state authority and weak government is giving way to enhanced state power as an exhausted society allows today’s rulers wider latitude for political maneuver.
Struggles over the re-distribution of property, and debates about the form of the market economy continue, of course, but everybody sees Russia’s market economy as a reality.
This property, it now seems, could be reclaimed by the state at any moment.
Offshoring certain components can increase the overall profitability of the production process, but it can also require companies to release intellectual property rights and know-how.
(California often makes big decisions – from limiting property taxes to formulaic restrictions on state spending – by ballot initiative.)
Frighteningly, the new Japanese government is still trying to deal with the aftermath of the country’s two-decade-old property bust.
Despite their vaunted credo of “scientific development,” the Hu-Wen leadership has failed to do much to help peasants and migrant workers, who have been hit hard by staggeringly high property prices, unaffordable health care, and rising education costs.
The current regime will not implement such a program and will continue to serve the oligarchic clans that have grown fat by plundering state property.
Putin's corrupt and irresponsible regime has become part of the system of oligarchic parasitism, with its pathologically unjust distribution of incomes and property.
To improve the economy we will direct lending to manufacturing and entrepreneurial activity, protect the right to honestly earned and legally acquired property, rebuild savings, and stimulate scientific-technical innovation and investment.
Through the soap opera, viewers get a sense of how the Chinese dream has begun to center around property ownership rather than education or love, and how this change has been transforming Chinese society, sometimes in startling ways.
But, of course, the sub-text is that if this fixation on property has also led to greater pragmatism in affairs of the heart, it has also led to a worrisome property bubble that many economists now fear could soon burst.
As fantastic and convoluted as the plot sometimes gets, “Wo Ju” offers a truthful look at what animates contemporary Chinese society: property, money, sex, cars, and power.
Such vehicles would be programmed to avoid crashes, leading to fewer deaths and injuries and less property damage.
NATO peacekeeping troops were not directed to stop the abductions, disappearances, retaliation killings, and massive property destruction by groups of ethnic Albanians, which led to a vast reverse ethnic cleansing of the non-Albanian (mainly Serb) population.
China’s Real-Estate WrongsBEIJING – China’s real-estate sector has been a source of serious concern for several years, with soaring property prices raising fears of overheating in the housing market.
But, with price growth easing, it seems that the government’s campaign to rein in property risk is finally taking hold.
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