审计信息化与审计组织方式

审计信息化对审计组织方式产生的触动,包括对审计机构调整的需求和对审计项目组织方式改革的需求。变革的阻力既来自政府执政能力考核标准、操作过程的缺失,也来自改革与本部门利益的冲突,还受到外部对审计职业的期待和内部考核导向的制约。囿于阻力,满足审计组织方式变革需求的方法似乎应当遵循改良、渐进的思路,在需要和可能之间寻求适度妥协,以足够的耐心,等待酝酿中的突破和外部环境的演变。     

Urban Sensing by Crowdsourcing: Analysing Urban Trip behaviour in Zurich

The research on which this essay is based sought to provide a deeper understanding of live urban activities. The main idea was to obtain in‐depth trip information by integrating sensing technology with crowdsourcing‐based methods. Location and acceleration sensors embedded in smartphones can deliver useful trip information. Research had previously been conducted to find an accurate data analysis algorithm for high‐level data mining, an efficient sensing method for power saving. As a proof of concept, this essay presents a case study of Zurich that successfully implemented previous research achievements in the real environment. It established that urban travel behaviour can, in fact, be collected by sensors embedded in mobile devices, and that the data thus obtained can be used to measure the characteristics of trip behaviour in cities by means of an advanced classifying algorithm and analysis. The strength of this research is its pioneering role in clearing the ground for future urban data collection methods and planning strategies. Specifically, this study could provide answers to the following key questions: How can crowdsourcing be applied to the collection of urban transportation data? What kinds of information can be extracted from the crowdsourced mobile sensing platform? What kinds of knowledge, within the transportation domain, can be derived from the above?     

我国石油企业库存精细管理模式的创建与实施

石油企业以内部生产为依据组织物流,由于生产状况的多变以及与企业外部供应商信息沟通不畅,导致供应部门不能有效的组织采购和控制库存,极大的浪费了资源,影响了生产。合理库存可以使得企业整体运作变得更为有效,更为顺畅。     

浅谈企业研究与开发的管理

建立在现代项目管理理论基础上的企业研究与开发的管理重点是通过时间控制、成本控制来提高R&D的投入—产出比,进一步提高R&D的绩效。     

鄂伦春旗图书馆现状及创新发展的几点思考

位于呼伦贝尔市鄂伦春自治旗的鄂伦春图书馆承担着民族文化传承的重要责任。通过分析鄂伦春图书馆的现状和制约其发展的主要问题,对如何改变现状、更好的发挥社会职能做了几点思考。     

机械构成元素与加强型机械的研发

机械已成为当今世界一种不可或缺的工具。工业领域中,机械加工产业发展迅速。了解机械的原理与加工原理,才能保证机械产品适合产业发展,保证其使用的质量与效果。文章从分析机械构成元素出发,阐释了机械的基本构成原理,进而指出了目前加强型机械的使用与研发现状,提出了我国在加强型机械研发方面存在的问题及应对措施。     

Net foreign asset (com)position: Does financial development matter?

We investigate the relationship between a country's domestic financial development and the (composition of its) net foreign asset position using a pooled mean group estimator and data for 50 countries for the 1970–2007 period. The results show that financial development reduces a country's long-run net foreign asset position. In addition, financial development leads to higher net equity and lower net debt positions. These findings confirm the theoretical predictions of Mendoza et al. (2009). The results are robust to using different indicators of financial development and inclusion of the level of development of a country in the cointegrating relationship.     

Foreign aid and governance in Africa

This paper investigates the effect of foreign aid on governance in order to extend the debate on foreign aid and to verify common positions from Moyo’s ‘Dead Aid’, Collier’s ‘Bottom Billion’ and Eubank’s ‘Somaliland’. The empirical evidence is based on updated data from 52 African countries for the period 1996–2010. An endogeneity robust instrumental variable Two-Stage-Least Squares empirical strategy is employed. The findings reveal that development assistance deteriorates economic (regulation quality and government effectiveness) and institutional (corruption-control and rule of law) governance, but has an insignificant effect on political (political stability, voice and accountability) governance. While, these findings are broadly in accordance with Moyo and Collier on weak governance, they neither confirm the Eubank position on political governance nor the Asongu stance on the aid-corruption nexus in a debate with Okada and Samreth. The use of foreign aid as an instrument to influence the election and replacement of political leaders in Africa may have insignificant results. It is time to solve the second tragedy of foreign aid and that economists and policy makers start rethinking the models and theories on which foreign aid is used to influence economic, institutional and political governance in recipient countries.     

农民自我减贫能力的构成要素及表现形态分析

根据动静结合的原则，通过从农民自我减贫能力的生存能力、发展能力两维指标考核农民自我减贫能力的动态发展，从农民的劳动能力、信息获取力、资源整合力、社会成长力等四个维度的主要内容来分析农民自我减贫的静态结构。分析发现静态结构的不同组合影响着农民自我减贫能力的高低及其动态发展。充分认识并发挥农民的自我减贫能力，将有助于推动中国扶贫工作的进一步发展。     

Do microfinance institutions fulfil their promise? Evidence from cross-country data

The concept of microfinance promises poverty reduction and economic growth. We empirically challenge this economic and social promise in an attempt to prove its fulfilment. Our multivariate regressions of economic development variables such as per capita gross national income based on PPP converted to international dollars (GNI per capita PPP), GDP growth, as well as gross capital formation and labour participation rate against specific microfinance institutions’ (MFI) variables show that the success and performance of MFIs significantly influence economic development. Microfinance directly influences economic growth through the value that MFI performance adds to purchasing power. An indirect impact comes from an improvement in capital accumulation and employment rates. These insights are valuable as the interdependencies between microfinance and economic development that this article verifies offer new and progressive insights into purposeful action that can be taken to stimulate economic development and growth. Targeted development programmes as well as socially responsible investments can be applied in developing economies in order to strengthen their growth and alleviate poverty.