世界银行监察组的作用及其实践研究

随着世界银行的活动范围不断扩大,它通过贷款的形式参与成员国国内的社会经济建设,影响了成员国平民百姓的生活。如果平民百姓的生活受到不利影响,世界银行就得承担责任,监督世界银行承担责任的监察组就应运而生。世行是在我国许多地区有着重要贷款业务的国际金融组织。它的监察组的监督作用对我国利用世行的贷款有着直接而且重要的影响。     

Self-reliance and participation of the poor in the development process in the Third World

A self-reliant approach to Third World economic development provides a new orientation in development strategy. Its central emphasis is on meeting the basic needs of the poor and in encouraging them to participate in the development process. The author argues that this participative process is not only the answer to Third World problems but also a global necessity.     

中国“世界工厂”辨析——我国制造业存在的问题及对策

我国从本世纪初开始被外国媒体称之为“世界工厂”,不管这种说法的政治意义,本文从工业史上“世界工厂”的定义出发,以一系列数据来论证我国到底能否称之为“世界工厂”。得出的结论是我们还有很长的路要走。此外,本文对我国制造业发展过程中的资源、环境污染、社会矛盾等负外部效应进行了论述,并给出了部分解决方法,主要集中于发展模式和节约化、技术创新。     

The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme

At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches – known locally as “midday meals” – in government primary schools. In this paper we provide a large‐scale assessment of the enrollment effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm lunches, free of cost, to 120 million primary school children across India, and is the largest school feeding program in the world. To isolate the causal effect of the policy, we make use of its staggered implementation across Indian states in government but not private schools. Using a panel dataset of more than 420,000 schools observed annually from 2002 to 2004, we find that midday meals result in substantial increases in primary school enrollment, driven by early primary school responses to the program. Our results are robust to a wide range of specification tests.     

网络型能源产业融合动因与改革进程

回顾网络产业融合理论以及电力产业和天然气产业的市场化改革历程,分析网络产业分拆式改革后融合化发展的动因,结果显示:放松规制、信息技术发展、市场竞争因素以及消费者需求是网络型能源产业分拆后再融合的主要动因.市场化改革历程表明在各种因素的推动下,我国网络型能源产业正在逐步形成融合化发展趋势.     

王国维之死的哲学意蕴——兼论叔本华死亡观对王国维的影响

王国维是中国近现代学术史上的巨灵。他的成功，不仅在于他在高层次的起点上确立了宏丽的学术思想，而且在其学术思想里面，涵蕴着一种“死亡意识”，尤以他的《人间词话》为甚。天才者，痛苦是也，惟其痛苦，名乃副实。此实与彼“死亡意识”契合，得以使死亡上升至形而上的哲学之维。显然，王氏的“死亡意识”受到了叔本华死亡哲学的影响，尽管这种影响是非常的微不足道，以至常常被人们所忽视。     

The Vortex of Rights: ‘Right to the City’ at a Crossroads

The right to the city concept has recently attracted a great deal of attention from radical theorists and grassroots activists of urban justice, who have embraced the notion as a means to analyze and challenge neoliberal urbanism. It has, moreover, drawn considerable attention from United Nations (UN) agencies, which have organized meetings and outlined policies to absorb the notion into their own political agendas. This wide‐ranging interest has created a conceptual vortex, pulling together discordant political projects behind the banner of the right to the city. This article analyzes such projects by reframing the right to the city concept to foreground its roots in Marxian labor theory of value. It argues that Lefebvre's formulation of the right to the city — based on the contradiction between use value and exchange value in capitalist urbanism — is invaluable for analyzing and delineating contradictory urban politics that are pulled into the vortex of the right to the city. Following Lefebvre's lead in such an analysis, however, reveals certain limitations of Lefebvre's own account. The article therefore concludes with a theoretical proposition that aims to open up space for further critical debate on the right to the city.     

The Economic Effects of the Soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany with Regard to Different Financing

This paper presents some results using the sport-economic simulation model SPORT. This model is based on a sport-specific input-output table for the year 1993, which has been integrated into the German INFORGE model. The performance of this model founded on the INFORUM philosophy. The results illustrate the importance of modelling sport-economic activities in deep detail, especially the integration of the system of national accounts. In addition, the results also show that it is possible to calculate the macroeconomic effects of the soccer World Cup, which may perhaps be hosted by Germany in 2006, with regard to the different financing of necessary extensions of public sports infrasfructure. Under favourable conditions-independent of the type of financing of these necessary investments-the staging of the soccer World Cup positively influences income and employment. Such calculations allow the decision-maker to estimate the opportunity costs of their decisions and can be the basis for an extended cost-benefit analysis.     

Urban vs. rural destinations: Residents’ perceptions,community participation and support for tourism development

This paper investigates and compares the effects of residents' perceptions of the impacts of tourism on community participation and support for tourism development across urban and rural world heritage sites (WHSs). Partial least squares – structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), has been employed to perform the analysis. The results reveal significant differences between the effects of residents' perceptions and community participation on support for tourism development in urban and rural destinations. However, the findings did not support any differences between the effects of positive perceptions on community participation, and the indirect effects of negative perceptions on support for tourism development. This study makes a significant theoretical contribution to the urban and rural tourism and residents’ perceptions literature by comparing rural and urban WHSs residents. Furthermore, this study has a number of practical implications for the local authorities of rural and urban WHSs.