Lessons from My School

This article presents analyses of the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) data and data on other indicators that are made available through the My School website. There are large differences across states and types of schools (independent, Catholic and government) in the Year 3 NAPLAN outcomes, though the differences across states tend to diminish as outcomes for later years of study are examined. Some schools are shown to consistently have academic outcomes better than their characteristics would otherwise indicate; conversely, other schools are shown to consistently have academic outcomes below the levels their characteristics would otherwise indicate. Few of these differences are statistically significant.     

危机研究的经验

公共危机管理正改变其作为政府“临时工作”的角色定位,成为政府日常事务工作的一部分。由于不同学科对公共危机管理的研究路径不一,对危机和危机管理的定义也有差别,但无论怎样定义,危机管理本质上依然是个政治问题,需要国内外合作才能完成。     

Lessons from the transition process

The illusions that market mechanism would transform former communist countries easily into welfare states were gradually replaced by disappointments. Major problems are common to all countries in transition; they all endured an unprecedented fall in measured output and rise of unemployment. Four countries: former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia constitute a group in which the fall was the lowest and which also have reached the bottom. While the mechanisms of depression in these countries differ basic links of the vicious circle seem to be similar. The transition is reflected in constitutional provisions on property rights; new constitutions depart radically from their socialist predecessors, return to the principles of French revolution, and provide more than adequate protection of private property. Equally important are legal frameworks for market activities, and privatization aimed to improve efficiency, enable fairness, and serve in the abolition of the monoparty system.     

Lessons from Nominal Convergence in Slovenia

Two years after joining the ERM2 mechanism Slovenia had fulfilled the legal requirements for joining EMU as well as the Maastricht criteria. This article analyses how the path to EMU affected Slovenian nominal convergence, more specifically yield spread movements for standardised maturities. For that purpose daily Slovenian yield curves were estimated in the period after introduction of the OTC–DVP market. The results show that yield spreads between the Slovenian and the generic EMU government yield curves decreased significantly at the beginning of March 2006 when Slovenia requested individual appraisal of EMU criteria fulfilment. Yield spreads decreased further in July 2006 when the definite fixed exchange rate was set.     

美国反洗钱惩罚机制对我国的借鉴意义

本文通过对美国反洗钱惩罚机制和措施的剖析，对比我国在反洗钱处罚模式、机制和力度上存在的问题，提出了建立适合我国国情的反洗钱模式，加大量刑，追究个人的刑事责任，对包庇、纵容、泄密行为给予重罚；设信用体系，营造反洗钱社会环境等方面的具体对策建议。     

Lessons from the Canadian health care system

In a recent poll, 89% of Americans stated that the U.S. health care system needs fundamental changes; 61% said they would prefer a system like Canada's to the system currently in place. How does the Canadian system work? How well has it served Canadian's health needs?     

俄罗斯公司治理结构失败的教训

私有化以来俄罗斯工业的表现不佳。关于转轨经济的大量文献主要根据持续的官僚干预、糟糕的宏观经济和税收政策、以及稀少的人力资本来解释这种糟糕的绩效。这些文献也提到了公司治理结构的……     

可借鉴的日本水资源管理

我国现在面临着严峻的水危机,正在以历史上最稀缺的水资源和最脆弱的水环境支撑着最大规模的人口和经济发展。人均淡水资源量仅为2200m^3,不足世界平均水平的1／4。今年西南五省又出现百年未遇的大旱,全国焦急。转头东望,东邻日本在水资源的管理方面有一整套经验值得我们借鉴。     

Lessons for Development from the Japanese Experience

Economic class, defined in relation to its actual control over the economy’s productive assets, is the most useful lens for examining power distribution in the post-Soviet transition and clarifying the neoliberal nature of its social provisioning processes. Using Ukraine as an illustration, I argue that only ownership empowerment of economically powerless classes can democratize the oligarchic transition economies. As an exit strategy from oligarchic capitalism, I recommend that state capitalism be implemented, as a transitory condition only, to divest oligarchs of unlawfully acquired economic power. Then, progressive restructuring of oligarchic companies must be conducted through broadening property ownership to include shared ownership and worker participation in economic decisions. I conclude that only by nurturing the democratic fundamentals of the economy and promoting a social democratic welfare state could a government in post-Euromaidan Ukraine initiate its own social control and create a genuine political and economic democracy.