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Antitrust in a High-Tech World
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
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Every private firm in the market aims at success. Sucess depends on meeting the needs of the ultimate consumer.Innovation suffers when regulators penalize businesses for their success in the marketplace. The rewards of innovation are the highest in the field of technology. Competitor complaints of unfair competition should be viewed with suspicion, and markets shouldn't be defined narrowly, writes Timothy J Muris in The Wall Street Journal. |
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Environment Ministry seeking to restrict Forest Rights Act
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Friday, July 30, 2010 |
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The Environment ministry is seeking to restrict the forest rights act. FRA hands back rights over forest to tribals who lived or dependent on them. It was passed by UPA in its last tenure.The Indian Forest Service was opposed to the Act, reports The Times of India. |
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Land Titling: Empowering people, increasing access
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
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Land laws and records are in a dismal state in India. Several instances of failure could be pointed out.Indian bureaucracy has thrown many into poverty, making land artificially scarce. However, people have started realizing the link between democracy and privae property rights. The recently drafted "Land Titling Bill 2010" is a result of the change in public opinion, writes Barun Mitra. |
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India Lands in a Mess
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
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Land laws and records are in a dismal state in India. Several instances of failure could be pointed out.Indian bureaucracy has thrown many into poverty, making land artificially scarce. However, people have started realizing the link between democracy and privae property rights. The recently drafted "Land Titling Bill 2010" is a result of the change in public opinion, writes Barun Mitra in The Wall Street Journal. |
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TN minister favours ban on sale of agricultural land
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Friday, July 02, 2010 |
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K.N. Nehru, the state minister of transport in tamil Nadu said that the sale of agricultural land for commercial purposes should be banned. He wanted to implement the ban opposed in Kerala State. He made an appeal to farmers to not sell their land and make use of various schemes, reports The Hindu. |
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Land laws a curse for son of the soil in Chhattisgarh
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
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The chocolates manufatured by global chocolate manufacturers using sal seed harvested by tribals in Naxal affected areas of Orrisa and Chattisgarh can't be sold in India, as cocoa is prohibited in India. Tribals can't even sell their land to non tribals. The land laws are a curse for the residents of Chattisgarh, writes Subhomoy Bhattacharjee in The Financial Express. |
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Financial Crisis: Failure to recognise the significance of property rights
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Friday, February 26, 2010 |
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Writing the foreword to the International Property Rights Index 2010, Barun Mitra notes that "The present economic crisis, with its root in housing and property, provides a very good opportunity for people in the rich and poor countries to take a fresh look at the significance of property rights and to renew our appreciation of a system of formal ownership of property." The International Property Rights Index is published annually by the Property Rights Alliance, an international network, based in the US. |
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Property titling has to extend to everything
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Monday, February 15, 2010 |
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The government will be consulting Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto to fine-tune its strategy to make the economy more inclusive, De Soto has pioneered the concept of empowering the poor with the use of market principles of property titling. Enforcing property titles are not enough, says Hernando de Soto to Mint. |
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Growth and Structural Reforms: A New Assessment of significance of property rights
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
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This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. The evidence suggests that sufficiently developed property rights are a precondition for reaping the benefits of economic reform. Our results are robust to endogeneity bias and a number of alternative specifications, write Lone Engbo Christiansen, Martin Schindler, and Thierry Tressel, in a working paper. This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. |
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Introducing guaranteed land titles in India
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Monday, August 31, 2009 |
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Legislative changes to the Land Revenue Act and the Code governing maintenance of Record of Rights and other forms of property registers are necessary concomitants to the conclusive titling law, explains Madhumita D. Mitra in Halsbury's Law Monthly. |
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