South Africa's economics of education: A stocktaking and an agenda for the way forward

This paper reviews some of the existing economics of education literature from the perspective of South Africa's education policymaking needs. It also puts forward a suggested research agenda for future work. The review is arranged according to five areas of research: rates of return, production functions, teacher incentives, benefit incidence analysis and cross-country comparisons. Production functions, especially if translated to cost-effectiveness models, can point to important policy solutions. Teacher incentives is a policy area that is in need of a better theoretical and empirical basis. Rates of return are difficult for policymakers to interpret, but suggest a need for a qualification below the Grade 12 level. While benefit incidence analysis can demonstrate large improvements in the equity of public financing, cross-country comparisons reveal that not only is the distribution of schooling outcomes particularly unequal, on average it is well below what the country's level of development would predict.     

贵阳市产业结构变动与物流发展关系的实证分析

分析了贵阳产业结构变动的趋势和其中存在的问题,并探索了政府应如何采取经济政策措施,提高产业结构变动对经济增长的促进作用。     

基于环境绩效的长江经济带工业用水效率

使用2005—2014年长江经济带11个省(市)的面板数据,基于投入导向的超效率DEA-CCR模型,测算含有非合意产出的全要素工业水资源利用率,利用Malmquist指数对全要素工业水资源利用率进行分解,分析工业水资源利用率提高和降低的主要影响因素,对全要素工业水资源利用率进行收敛性分析,判断各地区工业水资源利用率差异的变化趋势。研究结果表明:不同省(市)工业水资源利用率差距明显,下游地区最高,中游地区最低;2005—2014年,长江经济带区域工业水资源利用率总体呈提高趋势;科技进步是推动全要素工业水资源利用率提高的主要因素;长江流域工业水资源利用率呈收敛趋势,省(市)工业水资源利用率差距在缩小。     

基于质量指数的经济增长转型测度研究——以深圳经济增长为例

中国经济如何实现由"速度型"向"质量型"转化是一个充满了探索性的问题,学者们从不同理论视角给予了广泛关注。而如何设计一个指数从定量角度测评速度向质量转化进程,以便直观地反映经济增长转型的度是理论研究不可或缺的部分。通过借鉴市场化指数的经济原理与设计思路,设计了质量指数作为测量经济增长模式转型的定量指标,定量测算了由"深圳速度"到"深圳质量"跨越的实现程度。实证测评结果显示:"深圳速度"已经开始向"深圳质量"转化,但人民生活水平提高的幅度与深圳经济发展水平存在较大的落差。以此为契机,为定量测度我国经济增长转型提供一个分析思路。     

建设工程施工成本控制观点探讨

建筑工程项目具有工期长、资金投入量大、施工环节复杂等特点,因此控制至关重要,不仅可以为施工企业节约成本、增加利润、优化管理,还可以为促进技术进步创造有利条件。     

Measuring Women's Quality of Life: A Discussion of Alternative Approaches

This paper reports our experiences with the application of a number of alternative approaches to a study of women's economic circumstances and quality of life in a typical western city. The important work of, especially, Martha Nussbaum on the capabilities approach to evaluations of “quality of life” has highlighted pitfalls associated with the use of a narrow informational base in studies of women's lives and has emphasized the value of qualitative methods in these evaluations. However, to date, most discussions of the relevance of plural approaches to studies of women's lives have been conducted in the context of developing countries. This paper contributes a practical, current example of the relevance of such approaches to assessments of the lives of women in western countries as well. The research findings reported in the paper also cast further light on the importance of several, related themes in the literature on the capabilities approach, namely the importance of understanding how women's aspirations and expectations change with their economic and social experiences; and the importance of appreciating the social uses of language and how this affects the way in which women describe their lives.     

经济危机下保险业社会责任研究

随着经济的发展,企业社会责任问题日益受到重视.在当前经济危机下,保险业利用自身的优势承担社会责任可以减轻经济危机对企业和个人造成的损失.我国保险企业要着重从内部经营、保护员工利益、创新产品和服务、完善社会保障体系、关注民生等几个方面着力提高履行社会责任的能力与水平,为金融环境的改善及经济的平稳运行做出贡献.     

浙江山核桃产业经营收益的影响因素和政策设计——基于临安和淳安的实地调查

在实地调查的基础上阐述了山核桃产业在浙江农村经济发展中的重要支撑作用,分析了影响山核桃产业经营收益的关键因素,包括:林地产权政策、传统经营模式、农资成本、价格波动、支撑保障体系等,并从政策层面提出进一步完善林地产权、推行现代经营模式、实施农资成本补贴、防范价格风险、完善支撑保障体系等进一步提高山核桃产业经营收益的应对策略。     

Stock Market Development and Long-Run Growth in Nigeria

Abstract

The study empirically assessed the relationship between stock market development and long-run economic growth in Nigeria for the period 1980 to 2000. The study used secondary data while four models of multiple regressions were specified. The regression results, which were obtained using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS), show that measures of stock market development statistically have no significant effect on economic growth in Nigeria during the period 1980 to 2000. The major implication of the findings is that if the Nigerian Stock Market is to significantly contribute to rapid economic growth, policies must be fashioned out to eliminate those factors that blur the effectiveness of the vehicle or transmission mechanism through which stock market activities influence economic growth.

Based on the findings, it was recommended that there should be an improvement in the attractiveness of the market as a major source of raising capital. This will entail improvement in the physical infrastructure, more efficient share transfer and delivering system and provision of adequate and timely information on the market. Also, there should be improvement in the institutional regulation, environment and legal framework such that a balance is maintained between the soundness and safety of the market. And finally, there is the need to internationalize the stock market to improve the flow of savings. This willgive the market the advantages of risk diversification, improve information flow and encourage corporate control through investment in equity.     

浙江需“中端崛起,高端突破”

浙江经济总量虽居全国第四,但是,浙江的产业经济主体,主要集中在传统制造业,而且是以中小企业为主体,而这种特征,决定了浙江的产业升级,长路漫漫。所谓,浙江未来的产业发展,首先是实现目前的中小企业的升级换代,从低附加值的产业,过渡到大众产业,从产业链的最低端,延伸到中端。