稳定发展粮食生产关键在抓大县促大户

该文概况了湖南省产粮大县和大户的总体情况,分析了产粮大县和大户面临的诸多困惑,如粮食大县难改财政穷县的窘迫境地,成本剧增使大户对扩大经营规划望而却步等,提出稳定粮食生产要在抓大县促大户上做文章,即改进粮食补贴方式、健全产粮大县大户激励机制、切实加强农业的基础设施建设、强化农业服务体系建设等。     

关于加快我国城镇化进程的思考

城镇化的本质不仅在于人口的城镇化,而且还在于经济意义上的城镇化;走中国特色的城镇化道路可以借鉴发达国家的经验,但是不能够也不应该照搬国外的模式;走中国特色的城镇化道路,既要坚持大中小城市和小城镇协调发展,更要加快城市圈建设、走经营城市的道路,同时,也要统筹城乡发展,走城市和乡村"双赢"的道路。     

"渝西经济走廊"城市化之设想

根据“渝西经济走廊”实际情况，提出该地区城市化的总目标，对该地区城市化的基本格局进行了分析。同时，针对“渝西经济走廊”在城市化与发展过程中出现的一些具体问题如行政区划和交通建设等作了研究。     

西部地区县域经济发展与全面建设小康社会--以重庆市为例

要建设全面小康社会，从全国范围来看，重点和难点在西部地区，尤其是西部的贫困地区，因此必须从五个方面推进西部地区县域经济发展。     

我国中西部县域实施PPP模式的风险探究

在问卷调查的基础上，构建我国中西部县域PPP模式的风险因素评价指标体系。经过风险指标权重的计算，从19个风险中筛选出9个制约中西部县域PPP项目的关键风险因素，并通过相关检验和因素分析将其划分到4个关键风险组群，分别为政治风险、经济风险、市场环境风险和合作风险。结果显示：政治风险为制约PPP发展的最主要风险组群，而项目收益不足则是评分最高的单项风险因素。     

湖南县域民营经济标准化战略模式选择——以技术标准生命周期为视角

现有研究表明:标准化战略促使企业构建起基于技术标准的竞争优势。本文在对湖南县域民营经济的标准化战略环境进行分析的基础上,运用技术标准生命周期规律理论,提出标准领导战略、标准挑战战略、标准跟进战略、标准创新战略这四种基本的标准化战略模式,并阐明了技术标准形成机制、技术创新集群以及产业标准链延伸等战略实施的若干要点。     

长三角地区县域经济发展差异及其动态收敛研究

文章以长三角地区60个县（不包括区）1998—2009年间的人均GDP数据为基础,首先采用标准差系数和锡尔系数分析该地区内县域经济发展差异水平现状,然后根据经济增长收敛理论进一步对其动态收敛趋势进行实证分析。研究结果表明,长三角地区县域经济差异在1998—2009年间逐渐增大,并且基本不存在动态收敛的趋势,仅部分地区内县域经济存在俱乐部收敛。根据研究结果提出了初步的政策建议。     

Redefining Local Government Roles In Public Services

County officials in the seven-county metropolitan area of the State of Minnesota's Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul were seeking to redefine county roles in service delivery. This article reports on a process model that was piloted on two services. The model was commissioned by officials; was based upon and informed by literature and comparative experience; began with an examination of functions performed; involved participants in focusing the study; was context-focused; and involved local stakeholders in projecting the implications of alternative county roles. These characteristics complicated the research management process because the process took more time, involved more actors, and required more coordination than traditional research. However, having stakeholders identify alternatives and bring factual material to the process was critical to the success of the model and including the comparative and contextual research both strengthened the policy conclusions and improved the probability of their adoption and implementation. A case of a Minnesota county that followed the model in an effort to reform water governance within the county illustrated adoption of the approach. The stakeholder analysis process was previously applied in Africa, China and Southeast Asia and the model should be applicable to a wide range of settings and problems.     

Broadband speed and unemployment rates: Data and measurement issues

We examine the effects of broadband speed on county unemployment rates in the U.S. state of Tennessee. We merge the older National Broadband Map dataset and the newer FCC dataset in lengthening our broadband access data over the period 2011–2015. Extending the dataset improves the precision of the estimates. Our panel regressions control for potential selection bias and reverse causality and show that broadband speed matters: unemployment rates are about 0.26 percentage points lower in counties with high speeds compared to counties with low speeds. Ultra-high speed broadband also appears to reduce unemployment rates; however, we are unable to distinguish between the effects of high and ultra-high speed broadband. We document beneficial effects of the early adoption of high speed broadband on unemployment rates. Better quality broadband appears to have a disproportionately greater effect in rural areas.     

Religious adherence and county economic growth in the US

We estimate a Barro-type conditional convergence model using religious adherence data from the American Religious Data Archive to analyze independent effects of church adherence rates on economic growth in the United States at the county-level. Per capita income growth is modeled as a function of initial per capita income, initial human capital stock, and a set of control and related variables including religious adherence, religious diversity, and regional indicator variables. We also investigate the independent effects of three main denominations, namely Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Mainline Christians, on county economic growth. Our results indicate that the religious adherence in general is significantly greater than zero and not beneficial for US county income growth. We find mixed results for effects of various denominations.