Public ownership Essays

  • Airport Privatization

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    Airports are key enhancers of commerce and trade; they generate massive transportation and key economic benefits (Vasigh, 2007). Privatization of airports relates to transfer of ownership of airport from public ownership sector to private ownership (Jobs Consultancy, 2007). Privatization process aims at increasing of efficiency, competitiveness and viable financing of airports. Considerations on whether to privatize an airport are made by governments and the decision has a long-term impact that follows

  • Privatizing a State Run Natural Monopoly

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    relatively expensive and inefficient services and have poor labour re... ... middle of paper ... ...ises such water supply, electricity, and telecommunications will always remain monopolistic in nature. It may not matter whether they are public or private. It is only in very large markets where there are sufficient economies of scale allowing for serious competition among privately owned utilities. Conclusion ---------- In conclusion, the arguments for privatising natural

  • Corporate Governance: The South Pacific Stock Exchange

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    Introduction The South Pacific Stock Exchange (hereafter SPSE) also adopted the principle-based corporate governance code in 2009 with a view to enhance investor participation and confidence in the capital market in Fiji. The SPSE listing rules Section 6.42 require all listed companies to comply with the corporate governance code as stipulated under the Reserve Bank of Fiji (hereafter RBF) corporate governance principles and reporting guidelines (SPSE, 2010). Corporate governance is the broad term

  • Finders Keepers Losers Weepers Summary

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    Wealth Matters: Loss of Black Land Ownership "Finders Keepers, Loser's Weepers." --Unknown Introduction Finders keepers, losers weepers is a childhood adage that means whatever is found on the school playground can be kept. There is no principle of law that supports an individual is entitled to keep whatever is found, while the original owner bears the loss. The premise when something is lost by one individual and found by another has been expressed in various ways over the centuries. The

  • Advance Notices from the Scottish Law Commission

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    transaction as a real right in conveyancing only occurs when registration has been completed. The risk period for the purchaser consists of a potential situation where the seller becomes insolvent or the seller has granted a deed which transfers ownership to a third party which is then registered first. It is believed that the system of advance notices will remove the risk of losing legal title to property between payment and date of registration. Advance notices do not completely eradicate the risk

  • Ethics And Intellectual Property: Ethics And Intellectual Property

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    However, trying to determined when the story became part of the public-domain is difficult to say the least. What is unethical about the work of the researchers is that it appears they did not explain to the Bushman the impact of allowing the researchers to write their story. For the researchers to make a society’s

  • The ownership of business

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    The ownership of business Private Business Sole Trader This is a person who decides to set up the business on her/his behalf. There mite be other people who work for the owner but the business to be quite small, if, quite possibly, very profitable. An example is a Chinese Takeaway or a Fish and chip shop. Partnership From 2 -20 people who get together to run a business. They will probably employ other people to work for them. But ownership belongs to the partners. A firm of solicitors

  • Nozick's Entitlement Theory Essay

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    individual rights with dignity. However, it will be clear that Kantian theory does not necessarily yield the concept of absolute property rights. Second, I will explain the principle of self-ownership, which will clarify that persons have rights over their bodies and powers. I will find the principle of self-ownership is compatible with Kantian principle. Third, I will examine Nozick’s proviso, which guides legitimate initial acquisition. However, finally, I will show that the appropriation that passes

  • Essay On Natural Resources

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    surface was realized. Early in the 20th Century, the Commonwealth began its acquisition of multitudes of tracts of land for state forests, state parks and game lands, the ownership rights to the surface and subsurface property, in many cases, were separate. According to the Pennsylvania Constitution, Article I, § 27, “Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain

  • Steers: Food and Restaurant Industry

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    their unique taste and selling proposition. As a result of this Steers has won multiple awards including the best burgers for the last 18 years and the best chips for the last 14 years. Forms of ownership • Famous Brands Limited is a public company listed on the Johannesburg stock exchange. A public company is a company with one to unlimited shareholders and this is determines the amount of shares available to be bought and sold. • Famous Brands Limited are the ‘parent’ company to many franchises

  • Investigating Business - Ownership

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    Investigating Business - Ownership Investigating Business Unit One Task One: Ownership Introduction I have chosen to base my assignment on the following businesses: Sole-Trader for which I have chosen Errol Anderson’s business: Errol Anderson Motors PLC for which I have chosen Sainsbury’s I have chosen these businesses because a Sole-Trader and a PLC make a good comparison and therefore I have chosen a sole-Trader and a PLC. I have chosen Sainsbury’s as my PLC because

  • Reservation Of Ownership Essay

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    The reservation of ownership of a car: I never told you that financial In a way I decided to write on this subject by the general confusion there is to it and given the high number of people concerned by a demonic term that can be a nuisance for anyone who finances, has financed a vehicle in any decanting occasion or by buying a used car, because sooner or later you might end up facing the dreaded retention of title clause in a car. What is the retention of title on a car? Well, almost better start

  • What Jim and Karen Timmons' Liability Is under the Florida's Dangerous Instrumentality Doctrine

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    permission to use the car to go strictly to and from school and restricted Jennifer’s access otherwise. Jim, the driver’s father, lives 130 miles north of where the driver and her mother reside in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was planning to sign over the ownership of the car to Karen but never got around to it. The plaintiff is Mary Cary (“Mary”), the widow and Personal Representative of Barry’s estate. Mary is suing Jennifer, Karen, and Jim for the death of Barry, pursuant to Florida’s Dangerous Instrumentality

  • Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis

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    distracting muse for our ire. The real causes for the foreclosure and overall financial crisis have more to do with laissez faire market system in general. Now laissez faire market theory in and of itself is not the problem, but it only works when land ownership is a right, not just a goal. It also only works when the money system follows this paradigm. Basically sovereignty must return to the people. The people must own the land thus control the money and the means of production. When corporations own land

  • Political Economy

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    influence that ownership control, advertising and audience spending has over the mass media and the mediated messages we receive on a daily basis. Political economy believes that everything about media products is created through structural features (ownership, advertising and audience spending). The industries and businesses that the media works for and out of are organized through the economic and political factors of our economy. Political economy stresses that private ownership has a major influence

  • Easement Case

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    Jim has come for advice about easement and he wants to exclude Jesse’s clients from the car park. The fact suggests that the easement was created by the previous owner and registered under Torrens. By registration, the easement and the accompanied plan will be transferred and into Jim’s certificate of title-schedule 2 . It is an express easement and it is legal; not equitable. It is also indefeasible as no exception appears to apply in this case. Jesse is a dominant tenement (“DT”) as he owns the

  • The Relationship Between the Constructive Trust and Proprietary Estoppel

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    makes the minimum award which are essential to proceed for justice under proprietary estoppel, which allows the courts to provide such remedy fits to the facts of the case and the remedy is not necessarily be similar to the share in the beneficial ownership of the land to a monetary award. However, judging from the points referred above, it can only be said that the two doctrines are still to a certain extent although the courts yet need to resolve other different traits.

  • Essay On Pet Ownership

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    bear or maybe python? Exotic pet ownership is far from having a clear right or wrong answer but it is in need of a ban for both the protection of animal and owner. For exotic pet owners, owning a wild beast insures a sense of power and uniqueness. It is also their way of contributing to the conservation of a species by having a “backup population” once human population growth and habitat destruction has resulted in extinction (Slater 113). But in reality the ownership of wild animals as pets only helps

  • Exploration of Asian Business Systems

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    After deeply exploring the major business systems throughout Asia, it is apparent that the internal structure and practices of each of these economies hold both similarities and differences. From education and employment practices to finances and ownerships, as crucial as their differences may seem, each major business system in Asia shares practices with another. While the industrialized nations of the West are known for advanced education levels and systems, such a concept is not commonly found within

  • Privatizing Telstra

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    PRIVATISATION - TELSTRA What are the advantages of privatising Telstra and how does this impact it's ethical conduct while striving to satisfy community expectations? I believe that putting important public assets into select private hands is not in Australia's long-term interests, and oppose the partial/full sale of Telstra for the reasons that the Government has given. The argument the Government has given for the privatisation and corporatisation of Telstra has been a budget conscious one where