To get permission to build a house on state-owned land took six years and 11 months of navigating the bureaucracy and getting papers notarized.
The government has allowed El Abdeen and his neighbors to live on state-owned land (it belongs to the Ministry of Endowment) but has never granted them official recognition.
We do believe it is the second, as state-owned Chinese banks do not usually lend to consumers, but to state owned enterprises and land developers that end up continuing the building frenzy.
De Soto's team, along with the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, found that to acquire and legally register a lot on state-owned desert land in Egypt requires dealing with 31 public and private agencies and red tape that can stretch from 5 to 14 years.
De Soto's team, along with the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, found that to acquire and legally register a lot on state-owned desert land in Egypt requires dealing with 31 public and private agencies, and red tape that can last from 5 to 14 years.
Ownership could be challenged, but critics worry that it would be difficult to do so for former state-owned assets or for land-use rights that had been sold off in shady deals.
It continues to provide state-owned firms with loans and land which many of them then rent on at a mark-up to the private sector.
In its Mabo judgment, the High Court limited rights to native-title claims to unused land owned by the state.
Cleo Dyer from New York City writes in, I strongly believe that Detroit should sell anything it can to help the city, masterpieces and even land owned by the state are fair game.
An orderly sale of Italy's state-owned industries and Greece's land holdings would take time, which is no longer available, so the immediate solution to the crisis is to place such hard assets in a euro-zone trust that would then issue euro-zone bonds backed by those assets.
Much land is owned by the state, which can allocate it to outside investors even against local opposition.
Powerful state-owned enterprises, used to cheap credit, land and energy, will resist threats to these privileges.
The liquidity which the Chinese government so quickly and forcefully injected into the economy mainly benefited leading state-owned enterprises, who used the money for land speculation to their own benefit.
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Most of the open land in Israel is owned by the state and administered by farmers, ranchers and the IDF.
State-run banks are often reluctant to lend to private companies that do not have the hard assets (such as land) or implicit government backing that State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) enjoy.
The favourite target of the critics is Juan Villalonga, a pal of Mr Aznar from his schooldays, whom he made head of Telefonica when it was state-owned, and who is now one of the richest men in the land.
The ABB unit, based in Sugar Land, Texas, provides products and services to many foreign state-owned electrical utilities.
Mugabe has vowed not to leave office until all white-owned land is returned to the country's black majority, the state-run Herald newspaper reported Friday.
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Banks in China prefer loans that are secured by land, buildings and equipment, and are most comfortable lending to state-owned enterprises where there is an implicit government guaranty.
Last year, spooked by the idea of foreign sovereign-wealth funds and state-owned firms buying up vast tracts, the government resurrected a 1971 law limiting the amount of rural land foreigners can buy.
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Mr Kejriwal alleged that the government in Maharashtra state - run by a coalition of the Congress party and Nationalist Congress Party - bent rules to give away land owned by farmers to Mr Gadkari, who is also a businessman.
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