The role of NGOs in development cooperation

There has been an impressive proliferation of non-governmental organizations in development cooperation in the last two decades. The main reason for this has been the belief—among both experts and the public at large—that NGOs have a number of advantages over the state sector when it comes to aid efficiency. The following article examines these apparent advantages and concludes that NGOs are often not nearly as effective in practice as the theory purports.     

凝八方之智推可持续增长2010夏季达沃斯论坛隆重开幕

省巢董事长包必达 理解水有三个维度 理解水有三个维度,要从社会品、环境水和商业水进行分析认识.我们必须理解水有三个纬度,首先是社会品,就是基本源泉,另外是从环境意义上的水,理论上我们需要4200立方升水,确保环境保持下去.     

“五星酒店如雨后春笋 有压力更有动力”——访重庆洲际酒店总经理范纳伦先生

重庆洲际酒店总经理:Franck Naulleau,法国人,中文名:范纳伦。出生于1966年。他拥有超过20年的酒店管理经验,足迹遍及亚洲、非洲、欧洲、美洲和中东,丰富的阅历让他在工作中拥有独到的见解和创造力。2008年9月,范纳伦先生来到中国重庆,任重庆洲际酒店总经理。他有广泛的爱好,特别在运动方面。在闲暇时间,他喜欢参加网球、高尔夫、足球等运动,并都是高手。此外,他还喜欢研究国际文学和电影。范纳伦先生更是热心慈善的爱心人士。在他去过的诸多国家,都留下了他乐善好施的义举。范纳伦先生相信,爱心没有国界,每个人的一点慈善之举,都终能汇成强大的力量,将幸福和快乐带给需要帮助的人。     

市长国际经济顾问团献计重庆发展

一场吸引全球目光的跨国盛会,一个紧凑高效的会议,一段重庆与世界500强的对话,27位顾问纷纷献计献策,44条金点子谏言重庆发展。9月27日,市长国际经济顾问团会议第四届年会在     

Environmental (De-) Regulation, Competition, and Policy Rules

This article analyzes some problems regarding our knowledge of environmental policy. Sustainable development as the prospective enlargement of the political agenda has been identified as a long-term challenge for economic policy which could get trapped in a new form of interventionism. The evolutionary market approach that is presented here focuses on development risks of environmental policy that are mostly neglected in standard theory. A transfer of the Hayekian concept of negative rules to the realm of environmental policy is critically discussed. A straight-forward transfer of Hayek's theory stressing the importance of negative rules cannot be recommended, since even the negative rules carry some development risks in the realm of environmental policy. Some preliminary political consequences are drawn which are appropriate to limit the extension of environmental targets in the future.     

韩国人奇雨铉的重庆幸福生活

和那些刚来中国的外国人不一样,韩国人奇雨铉算是老外中的"老中国"了,从最开始来到北京大学学习中文以来,他在这里已经待上了13个年头了,在中国生活了这么久,奇雨铉对中国的感情越来越深,新鲜感一直都有增无减.     

Body Image and Beliefs About Appearance: Constraints on the Leisure of College-Age and Middle-Age Women

Reducing adolescent substance use is important in South Africa, a developing nation with increasing adolescent substance use, lack of leisure/recreation opportunities, and high rates of adolescent discretionary time. Previous research suggests leisure boredom and adolescent substance use co-occur in this setting. Using longitudinal data from 2,580 South African adolescents as they progressed from the 8th to 11th grade, the current study disentangles the associations of trait and state leisure boredom with substance use, and examines how ability to restructure boring situations moderates those associations. On average, individuals with higher trait boredom used more substances, and on occasions when state boredom was high, the prototypical adolescent used more substances. Although restructuring did not moderate these associations, greater ability was associated with lower substance use independent of leisure boredom. Findings illustrated the importance of considering how trait and state aspects of leisure may contribute to adolescents’ risk behavior and addressed through preventive intervention.     

重庆国际妇女社举行第五届圣诞慈善舞会 40万元捐款助学贫困孩子

这是来自国际妈妈们的无尚关怀。12月5日晚,伴随着悦耳的圣诞歌声,以我的梦想、我的中国为主题的重庆国际妇女社第五届圣诞慈善舞会在洲际大酒店拉开帷幕,约310位国际友人参加了舞会。市政府副秘书长严晓光携夫人参加,并献上第一支舞蹈。