"壶口悖论":对黄河壶口瀑布开发方式的研究

在行政区交界地带,有的资源地跨两个(或多个)行政区,各个行政区均享有对该资源开发的权力,对这种类型资源是由两个行政区(实体)分别进行开发,还是组建一个资源开发实体,由该开发实体进行统一开发,文章以地处晋陕两省交界处的黄河壶口瀑布开发为例,通过对现实中壶口瀑布的开发与如果只有一个开发主体的开发进行的比较,提出了"壶口悖论",以期对我国行政区交界地带的资源开发有所启示。     

云南流域综合开发及其对策研究

在对流域综合开发概念内涵分析总结的基础上,文章分析了云南省流域开发利用中存在的主要问题,并针对这些问题提出了云南省流域开发的对策措施,这对于加快云南省主要流域的开发,提高流域开发的可持续发展能力,具有重要的作用与意义.     

省际边缘区经济发展问题与对策研究——以苏鲁豫皖交界地带为例

20世纪90年代以来,随着全国经济的快速发展,省际边缘区经济欠发达问题却愈显突出。苏鲁豫皖交界地带虽然在总体上位于东部沿海地带,但目前仍属于"经济低谷",需要加快发展。该文以行政边缘区经济理论为基础,分析了苏鲁豫皖交界地带经济活动的基本特征、存在问题及其形成原因,并提出了加快这一交界地带经济发展的主要对策措施。     

流域经济开发视野中的问题探讨

流域经济的开发已成为了当代世界各国普遍关注的热点。我国是世界上拥有众多江河的国家之一，具有开发流域带来经济繁荣的巨大潜力。然而，我国流域开发治理工作在指导思想上的偏差和流域管理体制的不完善，致使流域开发产生的一系列严峻问题急待解决。     

澜沧江流域旅游资源特点及开发构想

本文运用区域旅游开发理论,研究了澜沧江流域旅游资源的类型特点,在分析了该流域旅游开发的资源、市场、交通和接待设施等条件的基础上,提出了澜沧江流域旅游开发的构想     

国外流域开发经验对西江黄金水道开发战略的借鉴意义

一、国外流域成功开发模式的经验1.因地制宜,选择重点,综合利用,形成特色。国内外实践表明,根据国情区情域情选择开发的主导目标,综合利用水资源的战略是经济可行的。美国田纳西河流域综合治理是世界流域开发的一个成功典型,流域管理局从防洪入手,突出发展水运、水电、配合火电、核电、优先     

加强旅游合作 促进共同发展

一、天水市旅游资源优势及开发现状 天水市位于甘肃省东南部，地处陕甘川交界地带和新亚欧大陆桥中国段中部，古为“丝绸之路”重镇，现为中国历史文化名城、中国优秀旅游城市。     

新开发需要新思维——知名学者谈西部大开发

长江黄河发源于西部,是全国大部分地区的水源地。西部大开发的重要内容是加强长江黄河流域的生态工程建设。与生态建设同时,开发流域水能资源和合理利用水资源,也应是西部大开发的重要目标。     

流域开发的现代理念和清江体制的设计思想与设计原则

1 流域开发的现代理念基于清江流域的特点,我们认为,组织清江流域开发必须树立下列现代理念.1.1 流域可持续发展开发链理论流域开发,事实上是一个以水为核心的自然资源的综合利用过程.     

进一步提高尤溪流域水电开发经营效益的思考

本文分析了福建省尤溪流域水电开发当前的现有情况,以及流域梯级开发所带来的经济效益和社会效益,同时也指出了目前开发进程中存在的问题和困难,针对存在的困难问题,如何正视,如何解决,如何才能进一步提高尤溪流域水电开发经营效益,笔者谈些提高经营效益的途径和措施.     

Health, Wealth, Fertility, Education, and Inequality

The authors use a new cross-country dataset to estimate the strength of the links between different dimensions of social and economic development, including indicators of health, fertility, and education, as well as material wellbeing. This differs from previous studies in employing data for different income groups in each country in order to provide direct evidence on factors driving inequality, and in using a unique measure of material wellbeing that does not rely on PPP comparisons.     

Trade,Remittances, Institutions,and Economic Growth

This paper empirically investigates the role of trade, remittances, and institutions in economic development in a large sample of developing countries using recently developed instruments for all these variables. Both cross-country (over 30 years) and dynamic panel data (over 5-year periods) regressions of growth rates on instrumented trade, remittances, and institutions provide evidence of a significant impact of trade, institutions, and remittances on growth. While institutions foster growth, remittances hamper it. The effect of trade on growth is positive in cross-sectional regressions but ambiguous in dynamic panel data regressions. These results are indicative of a more important role for trade in explaining growth in the very long run compared with over shorter horizons.     

Country terms of trade: trends,unit roots,over-differencing,endogeneity, time dummies,and heterogeneity

The debate about the Prebisch-Singer thesis has focused on primary commodities with some extensions to manufactures. We analyse trends in country terms-of-trade for goods and services rather than those for commodities according to the World Bank income classification. We find that the natural logarithm of the terms of trade for all groups except for the poorest has common unit roots, but none has individual unit roots. As low-income countries have no unit roots over-differencing is inefficient and biases significance levels in first differences against the fall in the terms of trade. For the low-income countries the terms of trade of goods and services are falling at a rate that is significantly negative without and with endogeneity treatment by system GMM. A comprehensive analysis of the effects of time dummies supports the result of falling terms of trade for low-income countries. When all coefficients are country-specific 50% of all low-income countries have falling terms of trade in a simultaneous equation estimation using the SUR method. Food and financial crisis have no effect on the number of countries with falling terms of trade, but (dis-)improve the terms of trade or the significance of the results for a very small number of countries.     

Modinomics: Design,Implementation, Outcomes,and Prospects

This paper presents an analysis of the key elements of Modinomics, defined as “everyone's participation, everyone's progress.” It investigates the reasons why Modinomics was necessary, the key elements of Modinomics, and how this policy was implemented. It argues that India's economic policy has had continuity since the economic reform package of 1991, so Modinomics has involved a high component of better implementation. Nevertheless, there have been some major policy changes as well. The paper discusses the deep structural reforms of demonetization and a Goods and Services Tax as well the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act. The paper examines the record of economic growth under Modi as well as new welfare and employment programs to make economic growth more inclusive. Finally, the paper examines the medium and long‐term growth prospects for India.     

Basic income,liberal neutrality,socialism, and work

Liberal critics often object to basic income (BI) on the grounds that it violates reciprocity and is biased toward those who choose voluntarily to opt out of work and thus violate the principle of liberal neutrality toward conceptions of the good life. In the first part of this paper I argue that liberal neutrality favors BI. Marxist critics of BI are less likely to accept liberal neutrality, but I argue in the second part that the argument for BI in the first part applies with equal force to Marxist objections that BI is unfairly exploitative of workers. Marxists are also less likely to accept current labor market trends, seeing socialism as affording more opportunity for guaranteeing everyone a right to decent work, and suspecting BI of making the unfair inequalities of capitalism a little more palatable while diverting attention from a more equitable socialist alternative. I argue that BI is not incompatible with socialism or Marxism, and should not be opposed to but rather combined with strategies for full employment.     

Inflation,money, interest rate,exchange rate,and casuality: the case of Egypt,Morocco, and Tunisia

This study provides further evidence of the inflationary efects of the rates of growth of money supply, gross domestic product, efective exchange rate, and imported inflation for Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia using quarterly data from 1964 to 1990. In addition, it examines the Granger causality between inflation and money supply as well as between inflation and the real exchange rate in the countries under consideration. Most of the results are consistent with extant theory and empirical evidence.     

Ageing,government budgets,retirement, and growth

We analyze the short and long-run effects of demographic ageing – increased longevity and reduced fertility – on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through changes of taxes, government spending components and the retirement age in politico-economic equilibrium. Growth is driven by capital accumulation and productivity increases fueled by public investment. The closed-form solutions of the model predict taxation and the retirement age in OECD economies to increase in response to demographic ageing and per-capita growth to accelerate. If the retirement age was held constant, the growth rate in politico-economic equilibrium would essentially remain unchanged, due to a surge of social-security transfers and crowding out of public investment.     

Rule of law, democracy, openness, and income

We estimate the interrelationships among economic institutions, political institutions, openness, and income levels, using identification through heteroskedasticity (IH). We split our cross‐national dataset into two sub‐samples: (i) colonies versus non‐colonies; and (ii) continents aligned on an East–West versus those aligned on a North–South axis. We exploit the difference in the structural variances in these two sub‐samples to gain identification. We find that democracy and the rule of law are both good for economic performance, but the latter has a much stronger impact on incomes. Openness (trade/GDP) has a negative impact on income levels and democracy, but a positive effect on rule of law. Higher income produces greater openness and better institutions, but these effects are not very strong. Rule of law and democracy tend to be mutually reinforcing.     

Economic Growth, Inequality, Democratization, and the Environment

We augment the Stokey (1998) model by allowingagents to differ with respect to environmentalquality and income in order to analyze theimpact of income and environmental inequality,and of democratization on aggregate pollution.We find that the impact of a more equal incomedistribution depends on the degree ofdemocracy. In a complete democracy a more equalincome distribution generates, ceterisparibus, less pollution, which is consistentwith indirect empirical evidence, whereas theopposite is the case if democratic rights arehighly restricted. Furthermore, ademocratization is argued to typically lowerboth the income and the environmental qualityof the median voter. In this case, if, inutility terms, the fall in environmentalquality is worse than the fall in consumptionthe median voter decides to tightenenvironmental legislation so that aggregatepollution decreases.     

Vicarelli,Keynes, and the unstable nexus between investment,liquidity, and finance

The goal of this article is to reconstruct Keynes’s vision of the unstable nexus between investment, liquidity and finance, as set out by the Italian economist Fausto Vicarelli (1936–1986). As argued in the article, one of Vicarelli’s main contributions consists of explaining the inherent instability of financially sophisticated capitalist economies in terms of the interaction (and double dissociation) between investment, saving, and stock-holding decisions, within a Keynesian framework characterized by the presence of fundamental uncertainty. While Vicarelli’s interpretation of Keynes is best understood in the context of the post-Keynesian literature, its relevance goes beyond that, as its sheds light on current issues related to the post-2008 financial crisis and its policy implications.