Protect property rights and enforce contracts, say Western economists. But property rights and contracts are threatened at many levels.

Advocates of such agreements claim that they are needed to protect property rights.

Most countries with protected economies and lax protection of property rights languish.

strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights to foster innovative activities

This supposedly being a new Russia, cyber dissidents are accused of violating intellectual property rights.

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But countries like South Africa already have strong constitutional guarantees of property rights.

The fact that the Chinese are world champions in copying and infringing on intellectual property is well known.

The system avoids granting full land ownership rights, fearing that it would lead to the manipulation of poor farmers.

Some of the most important South Korea and Taiwan since the early 1960s, China since the late 1970s, India since the early 1980s have done extremely well under heterodox arrangements.

All emphasized exports none grossly violated property rights.

Finally, institutional reform encompasses more than creating markets and guaranteeing property rights.

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A critical institutional foundation for well functioning property rights is an independent judiciary to enforce them. India s Supreme Court has shown that it is independent, interprets the law faithfully, and does not easily succumb to global corporate interests.

Disney strip mines the world's fairy tales for ideas and then sues people for intellectual property infringement.

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Specific categories of property

Lackluster enforcement of intellectual property rights exacerbates the problem considerably, hampering US exports of software and entertainment.

But those supporting the investment agreements are not really concerned about protecting property rights, anyway.

Competition can be maintained by a combination of free entry and laissez faire, or by a well functioning regulatory authority.

Property rights can be implemented through common law, civil law, or, for that matter, Chinese style socialism.

TRIPs, the intellectual property provisions of the Uruguay round, were designed to reduce access to generic medicines and they succeeded.

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