As in China, America's property rights system grew out of what people were already doing.
Washington should also encourage Haiti to institute a formal, inclusive property rights system.
We in developed countries take for granted the relative ease of starting a business and the existence of a uniform property rights system--you can buy a house in Idaho and get financing for it from a bank in London or Hong Kong.
The underlying causes of this are a weak system of property rights (including intellectual-property rights) and a financial system skewed in favour of big, state-controlled companies.
McCaw also has intellectual property rights to a system that connects low-orbit satellite systems like Iridium with midaltitude projects like ICO.
Many dictators promote property rights and a reliable legal system out of simple pragmatism.
Yet equally, it is not hard to imagine that a clearer system of property rights would render hutong houses valuable propositions for private renovation.
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"Bayer is committed to protecting its patents for Nexavar and will rigorously continue to defend our intellectual property rights within the Indian legal system, " the company said in a statement.
"Bayer is committed to protecting its patents for Nexavar and will rigorously continue to defend our intellectual property rights within the Indian legal system, " the company said in a statement quoted by the Associated Press.
Singapore provides a persuasive model for a strong system of intellectual property rights.
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African emerging market economies have yet to develop a democratic system that respects property rights, as one regime privatizes and the other nationalizes, magnifying business risks and uncertainties.
He does business only in places with a stable government and a legal system that protects the property rights of foreigners.
Microsoft claims that Google's Android operating system infringes its intellectual property rights.
In a market system based on private property rights and the rule of law, people are free to choose, and prices reflect relative values that consumers place on alternatives.
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As a place to do business, the United States offers a hardworking, diverse, and educated workforce, strong protection of intellectual property rights, a predictable and transparent legal system, relatively low taxes, highly developed infrastructure, and access to the world's most lucrative consumer market.
The protection of property rights lies at the heart of our constitutional system.
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And despite persistent efforts by the Chinese government to protect intellectual property rights, survey respondents still describe a weak system of protection.
Not taxes at all: but the desire for a stable legal system with honest courts and where property rights mean more than being in political favour.
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Global leadership further takes the development of a regime that protects property rights, and develops a fair and transparent tax system that amasses sufficient resources to address market failures.
You don't really have a system, you don't have private property rights.
And if, as the paper implies, anything other than weak protection reduces innovation then we had really rather better have a system with only weak protection and thus weak property rights.
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While there are many structural inhibitors the educational system, government control, the protection of intellectual property rights, capital to the development of creative companies in China today, most, if not all, of these inhibitors will diminish over time.
He reckons that privatisation, which is a transfer of property rights, is not only meaningless but positively counter-productive in a system that has not yet defined these rights adequately.
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has provided a rare up-close and personal look at a social system animated by the desire for political power that disrespects, if not completely disregards, fundamental property rights.
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Property rights only come into play when we decide whether to invent and assign them when we try to build a system that maximises the innovation which is the point of the system.
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