青年编辑的心理健康

青年编辑心理健康问题是目前普遍的心理现象。在提出青年编辑心理健康标准的基础上,以科技期刊青年编辑为例,分析了青年编辑心理健康的现状及产生原因,最后提出了优化青年编辑心理素质的方法,以防止并消除影响青年编辑心理健康问题的不良因素,增加青年编辑的信心,提高其工作积极性,从而提高出版物质量。     

南非钻石的温柔之乡——南非豪登省高级政府代表团访渝

3月6日,南非豪登省办公厅省长特别顾问梅塔尼·卡奥戈罗·勒克哥洛一行访问重庆。来渝短短几天,梅塔尼一行参观了重庆市城市建设规划馆、民心佳园公租房,访问两江新区,了解两江新区概况,同时考察金山、海扶、福特等著名企业,以及西永微电子产业区,参观了重庆大学,领略了大足石刻的风采。虽然是第一次来重庆,梅塔尼却对重庆充满了浓厚的兴趣,     

Foreign trade regimes and employment in South Africa: An intertemporal comparison

Previous research has suggested that the labour requirements of an import substitution policy compare unfavourably with a policy of export promotion for South Africa. This paper presents an alternative methodology. Using an open input/output model, more emphasis is placed on the backward linkages that trigger off spillover effects which result from a unit Increase in domestic value added ofexportables and importables. The results show that a broad import substitution policy is not less favourable in terms of employment generation than a broad export promotion policy. This could indicate that a policy of ‘inward industrialisation ‘, which relies to some extent on import substitution, might not have relatively unfavourable employment effects.     

A Note on the (Continued) Ability of the Yield Curve to Forecast Economic Downturns in South Africa

In 2002‐2003, the South African yield spread falsely signalled a downswing that never materialised. This paper provides two reasons for this false signal. First, while the Reserve Bank never actually officially declared the start of a downswing, by alternative measures a downswing did actually occur. It is this severe weakness in economic activity at that time that the yield curve pointed to. Second, short‐term interest rates in 2003 were higher than they should have been because of a mistake made in measuring consumer price inflation. Because South Africa had recently introduced an inflation‐targeting regime, policy interest rates were, as a result of this error, kept too high for too long. This policy mistake was rectified as soon as the error in the Consumer Price Index was discovered. Thus, the yield curve in 2003 pointed to the reality that short‐term interest rates were too high and risked pushing the economy into full blown recession. This is demonstrated by the fact that it was a fall in long bond interest rates that caused the yield spread to turn negative, indicating expectations that short‐term interest rates would need to be cut – as indeed they were.