清贫与富有

在南昌城西郊，有一块洁静的地方，这就是方志敏烈士陵园。园区远离城市的繁华喧闹，翠绿的松柏送出一份清风肃影和淡淡的幽香。来到这里的人们，总能得到一份特别的感受，浮躁的心理往往会接受份宁静的洗礼，纷乱的思绪常常会留下一份深深的思考。     

焚烧穷人眼中的财富

无论我用什么样的经济理论加以解释,我的农民出身的爷爷仍然坚持认为餐馆里倒掉饭菜和超市扔掉过期的罐头就是在暴殄天物.     

资金互助与穷人生计

穷人有钱与为何有钱 中国是个低收入国家,农民是中国最庞大的低收入 群体。但为何在低收入条件下,中国的储蓄率又如此之 高?贫困的中国农民为何拥有2万亿元人民币储蓄?从 表面看,穷人似乎很有钱。这是一个悖论!其实,问题 的答案在于货币持有动机。     

On the Unequal Inequality of Poor Communities

Communities differ in important ways in their needs, capacities,and circumstances. Because central governments are not ableto discern these differences fully, they seek to achieve theirpolicy objectives by relying on decentralized mechanisms thatuse local information. Household and individual characteristicswithin communities can also vary substantially. A growing bodyof theoretical literature suggests that inequality within communitiescan influence policy outcomes in ways that are either harmfulor helpful, depending on the circumstances. Until recently,empirical investigations into the impact of inequality havebeen held back by a lack of systematic evidence on community-levelinequality. This study uses household survey and populationcensus data to estimate per capita consumption inequality withincommunities in three developing economies. It finds that communitiesvary markedly in their degree of inequality. It also shows thatthere should be no presumption that inequality is less severein poor communities. The kind of community-level inequalityestimates generated here can be used in designing and evaluatingdecentralized antipoverty programs.     

英国近代自由主义的济贫法批判

本文在介绍济贫法与工业革命历程的基础上,阐述了英国四位自由主义思想家对于济贫法的批判思想。亚当.斯密认为济贫法阻碍了劳动力和资本的自由流动;在马尔萨斯看来,人为的济贫法干扰了大自然的人口抑制法则;斯宾塞则指出,济贫法不仅扰乱了优胜劣汰的进化法则,而且扼杀了人类的美好天性;霍布豪斯赞同社会救助,但认为传统的济贫法不足以促进个人自立与发展。最后,笔者提出,自由主义济贫法批判思想具有体现并满足近代资产阶级需要的双重功效,但是这种批判不足以掩盖济贫法制度的正向功能。     

浅谈高校困难学生资助体系

我国目前已经建立起来了一套较为完备的资助家庭经济困难学生的政策体系,但在宣传、执行及落实等操作过程中存在着一些问题,本文针对一些实际问题,提出几点建议,建议体系突出国家助学贷款的主体作用,以期更好地作好困难学生的资助工作.     

关于工作贫穷研究的述评与展望

关于工作贫穷的研究是国外社会保障问题研究的一个重要组成部分。本文从工作贫穷的内涵出发,对国外的工作贫穷研究进行了小结,并认为工作贫穷问题的研究对指导我国的农村贫穷问题和城市新贫问题有一定的理论价值和研究意义。     

Counting the World's Poor: Problems and Possible Solutions

As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack ofpoverty reduction in the face of historically high rates ofeconomic growth—both in the world as a whole and in specificcountries (most notably India)—provides fuel for the argumentthat economic growth does little to reduce poverty. How confidentcan we be that the data actually support these inferences? Atthe international level, the regular revision of purchasingpower parity exchange rates plays havoc with the poverty estimates,changing them in ways that have little or nothing to do withthe actual experience of the poor. At the domestic level, theproblems in measuring poverty are important not only for theworld count but also for tracking income poverty within individualcountries. Yet, in many countries, there are large and growingdiscrepancies between the survey data—the source of povertycounts—and the national accounts—the source of themeasure of economic growth. Thus economic growth, as measured,has at best a weak relationship with poverty, as measured.