关于我国农村水利建设融资渠道的创新思考——运用彩票业对农村水利建设融资的设想

本文围绕我国农村水利建设融资中存在的状况,引出开辟新融资渠道的紧迫性,并设想以彩票业作为农村水利建设融资的一种途径,分析其可行性,并结合当前相关政策给出农业水利建设彩票的设计思路。     

皖江城市带承接产业转移集中区建设之思考

当前,两大省管集中区建设虽然取得了一定成效,但仍面临若干挑战,尤其是产业发展定位、农民利益保护、技术人才短缺、融资及管理体制不活等诸多问题,需要通过统一规划、错位发展,因地制宜、协调发展,引进人才、合作发展,用活政策、创新发展,完善体制、稳步发展等措施来进一步解决。     

湖南省农村消费市场现状及发展对策探析

本文以影响农村消费需求实现因素的重要性为原则,选取了农村居民生活、生产两个方面的需求现状以及农村消费环境现状作为分析的基础,通过分析得出湖南省农村的消费比例和人口比例不成正比,消费结构和消费环境不相适应等问题,并提出了切实可行的对策,以期为湖南省农村消费市场的发展提供现实依据。     

江苏农村沼气建设的思考

随着现代农业和新农村建设的进一步推进,农村新能源建设取得了显著成效,沼气作为一项重要基础建设起到了推动作用。但在沼气推广和建设的过程中,发现江苏省农户建沼气的数量在不断增加,但使用率却很低,"建而不用"的现象值得反思。通过实地调查,该文分析了江苏省新能源建设的状况和沼气推广情况,分析沼气建设中存在的问题和推广欠佳的原因,最后提出了相关的政策建议。     

FDI对我国中部地区技术进步影响的实证研究

梳理了中部地区吸收利用FDI的现状和特征,计算出了中部的TFP(全要素生产率),并以此作为技术进步的衡量指标,构建VAR模型对FDI和TFP的相关性进行实证分析.结果表明,短期内FDI对中部地区的技术进步有一定的促进作用,但长期来看促进作用并不十分显著.中部地区在吸收利用FDI过程中要引导技术引进,加强自主创新；创造公平环境,扶持本土企业；鼓励中外合资,强化技术合作.     

Revisiting the theory of optimum currency areas: Is the CFA franc zone sustainable?

This paper aims at explaining why the CFA countries have successfully maintained a currency union for several decades, despite failing to meet many of optimum currency area criteria. We suggest that the CFA zone, while not optimal, has been at least sustainable. We test this sustainability hypothesis by relying on the Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) approach. In particular, we assess and compare the convergence process of real exchange rates towards equilibrium for the CFA zone countries and a sample of other sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Our findings evidence that internal and external balances have been fostered and adjustments facilitated in the CFA zone as a whole—compared to other SSA countries—as well as in each of its member countries.     

A Huff model with firm heterogeneity and selection. Application to the Italian retail sector

ABSTRACT

In this paper, firm heterogeneity (in terms of productivity, i.e., marginal costs) is incorporated into a Huff model of competition in the Italian retail sector. A higher market potential in the trade area is associated with higher average productivity and lower productivity dispersion through selection of the best stores. The analysis, based on a unique data set encompassing 14,212 Italian retailers, finds support for this relationship in Southern Italy, but not in Northern and Central Italy (where opposite results are obtained in some cases), suggesting the selection dynamics are affected by context factors (other than provincial/regional accessibility) related to an upper geographical scale. The results are robust to controlling for local context factors such as financial risk and floor size restrictions. Floor size restrictions are found to enhance selection.     

Computer Simulation as a Tool for Planning and Management of Visitor Use in Protected Natural Areas

The United Nations Environment Programme’s Principles on Implementation of Sustainable Tourism suggest that implementing sustainable tourism must include monitoring visitor use of protected natural areas and directing it to areas where the environmental and social impacts of tourism are minimised. Thus, sustainable tourism management requires information about the spatial and temporal flow of visitor use in protected natural areas to help identify potential tourism-related threats to the natural and cultural resources of an area and the quality of visitors’ experiences. Recent research has identified at least four ways in which simulation modelling of visitor use can facilitate more informed planning and management of sustainable tourism in protected natural areas, including (1) describing existing visitor use flows; (2) monitoring the condition of ‘hard to measure’ indicator variables; (3) testing the effectiveness of alternative visitor use management practices; and (4) guiding the design of research on public attitudes. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, using findings from studies conducted in the Inyo National Forest and Isle Royale National Park, USA, each of these four potential contributions of computer simulation to sustainable tourism management and planning. The paper concludes with an assessment of the limitations of existing applications of computer simulation to nature-based tourism and recommendations for future research.     

陕西省农村中小学体育师资队伍现状调查

笔者针对陕西省农村中小学体育师资队伍现状进行了调查研究,结果表明:陕西农村中小学专职体育教师数量不足,教师学历结构偏低,年龄结构有待于优化,体育教师工作量相对较大,随着教师待遇的提高师资流失情况有所好转。并在此基础上提出加快陕西农村中小学体育师资队伍建设的对策。