坚持好中求快推动科学发展

科学发展、社会和谐是发展中国特色社会主义的基本要求，是实现国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福的重要保证，十七大报告38次提到“科学发展”，19次提到“和谐社会”和“社会和谐”，充分说明推动科学发展、促进社会和偕对发展中国特色社会主义伟大事业，全面建设小康社会具有何等重要的意义。学习贯彻党的十七大精神，结合钦州的实际，本人认为，坚持好中求快，推动科学发展，是我们今后相当长一段时期推进发展的总体要求．对此我们必须坚定不移．     

党校应充分发挥文化建设的重要作用

党的十七大准确把握我国经济社会发展对文化建设的新要求和物质生活改善后人民群众对文化工作的新期待．作出了加强社会主义文化建设的重大部署．充分反映了文化建设在继续解放思想．坚持改革开放．推动科学发展．促进社会和谐．全面推进小康社会建设中的重要地位．党校作为培训轮训党员领导干部的主渠道和重要阵地．在社会主义文化建设中具有特殊的作用。     

构建新农村公共文化服务体系的基本理论分析

大力发展公益性文化事业,构建和完善公共文化服务体系,是全面建设小康社会的必然要求,是坚持以人为本、满足人民群众日益增长的文化需求的重要保障,是统筹城乡文化发展、推进和谐社会建设的重要支撑。本文着重分析了新农村公共文化服务体系建设中的三大理论基础：公共服务供给理论、城乡统筹发展理论、基本公共服务均等化理论。     

以科学发展观为统领，努力实现“兰个对接”，加快建设经济社会发展强区、人民群众幸福之区

党的十七大站在历史的、时代的高度，以前所未有的创新精神和博大精深的丰富内涵，指引着新时期的中国人民向着美好和谐的小康社会加速前进。对古冶这个典型的资源型城区来说，贯彻落实十七大精神，就是要以科学发展观为统领，努力在思想认识、工作措施、保障机制上实现全新“对接”，并以此为轮毂和动力，加快建设经济社会发展强区、人民群众幸福之区。     

贯彻十七届六中全会精神 力促西藏基层文化建设

随着西藏经济社会的持续、快速、健康发展,广大基层农牧民群众的物质生活水平显著提高,人们对于精神文化生活的需求也日益强烈,参与文化建设的积极性不断增强,享受文化建设成果的要求不断提高。以中共十七届六中全会召开为契机,以"十二五"规划为载体,全面推进西藏基层文化事业建设,实现西藏基层文化事业大发展大繁荣,开创西藏社会主义新农村建设新局面势在必行。     

坚持以人为本构建和谐社会--访全国政协常委、全国政协社会与法制委员会副主任、北京大学教授萧灼基

构建社会主义和谐社会,是我们党从全面建设小康社会．开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面出发提出的一项重大任务．适应了新时期的客观需要和广大人民群众的共同愿望。温家宝总理在3月5日作《政府工作报告》时指出：“建设民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处的社会主义和谐社会．要广泛团结一切可以团结的力量．充分调动一切积极因素．激发全社会的创造活力：要妥善处理各方面利益关系．让全体人民共享改革和建设的成果：要正确处理改革发展稳定的关系．努力为经济社会持续发展创造有利条件和良好环境。”那么,建设和谐社会是在什么样的背景下提出来的?和谐社会的特点是什么?     

落实科学发展观 构建广电产业发展新格局

党的十六届六中全会通过的《中共中央关于构建社会主义和谐社会若干重大问题的决定》,对建设和谐文化提出了明确要求。为此,我们要坚持科学发展观,加快文化产业发展,努力建设和谐文化,实现市委提出的“使文化产业成为建设文化大市的巨大引擎”的要求,满足人民群众文化需求。     

推进宁波大交通协调发展

交通系统贯彻落实党的十七大精神，关键是要按照科学发展观的要求，把握好四大问题，推进交通事业又好又快发展。一是要更加主动地搞好“三个服务”。必须坚持服务国民经济和社会发展全局、服务社会主义新农村建设、服务人民群众安全便捷出行的方向。二是要更加主动地转变交通发展方式。     

优化支出结构 构建民生财政

着力解决好民生问题，让人民群众共享改革和发展的成果，是深入贯彻落实科学发展观的必然要求和构建社会主义和谐社会的紧迫任务，也是财政部门贯彻落实党的十七大精神的关键所在。因此，全区各级财政部门要积极调整支出政策，优化支出结构，把解决民生问题、促进社会和谐摆在更加突出的位置，努力建立以民生为导向的财政支出政策体系，加快由“吃饭财政”向“民生财政”的转变。     

以社会管理创新促进社会可持续发展

实现浙江的可持续发展,必须大力推进社会建设,加强创新社会管理,促进社会和谐发展今后20年,我国仍处于社会主义初级阶段,主要矛盾没有变。社会现代化是一个渐进的过程,不能操之过急。建设和改革的着力点正在从经济领域向社会领域、文化领域和政治领域逐步拓展,梯度推进。今后20年,要在经济转型升级的同时,从解决好人民群众最关心、最现实、最迫切的民生问题做起,从加快发展社会事业、加强和创新社会管理入手,妥善处理好影响社会     

Stabilization, adjustment, and the poor

This paper attempts to survey the recent literature on the impact of stabilization and adjustment programs upon the poor and to consider some of the key issues in the context of a particular equity-oriented low-income country. Tanzania. After looking at some of the approaches of earlier studies, this paper analyzes the effects of restructuring policies, macroeconomic restraint, and strategic policy change. The author then reviews available evidence on the recent experience of Tanzania with external shock, efforts at stabilization, and relations with the IMF.In conclusion, the author argues that in order to better understand their impact on poverty we need more detailed analyses of specific countries' experience with different kinds of macroeconomic imbalance and different short- to medium-term policy responses. However, he does indicate with some certainty that when equivalent external blows impact upon very low-income countries, there must be a presumption that, other things being equal (including the distribution of income), the proportion of households and people pushed over the line into “absolute poverty” will be greater than in middle-income countries. The international community should provide external finance to aid these low-income countries in limiting the negative impact on the poorest.     

Globalization, Growth, and the Poor

This paper discusses the possible causal relationships and empirical associations between globalization and growth, growth and poverty reduction, and, finally, globalization and poverty reduction. We argue that globalization can contribute much to poverty reduction both directly and by accelerating growth. Second, the contributions of redistributive policies are very likely to be less than the contribution of greater access to markets, more competitive insurance and financial markets, and improved institutions to poverty reduction. The potential effect of greater international integration on poverty reduction, however, is limited by domestic policy failures in developing countries and also by continued protectionism, particularly in developed countries.     

Energy, the Environment, and Innovation

In this paper we review the theoretical and empirical literatureon the role of policies in stimulating innovation that is designedto produce greener and more energy-efficient technologies. Firstwe review the theoretical literature on the role of purely environmentalpolicies in inducing firms to undertake environmental innovation.The conclusion is that for a wide range of policies and in awide range of circumstances one cannot prove that these policiesnecessarily induce greater innovation. We then consider theempirical evidence, which suggests that the effect of thesepolicies is weak but that the largest effects come in the longrun when, through learning-by-doing, firms better understandthe scope and potential for new energy-efficient technologies.Finally we consider the design of both environmental and technologypolicies, and show that the interaction of these policies iscomplex and warrants considerable further research.     

House prices, money, credit, and the macroeconomy

This paper assesses the links between money, credit, house prices,and economic activity in industrialized countries over the lastthree decades. The analysis is based on a fixed-effects panelvector autoregression, estimated using quarterly data for 17industrialized countries spanning the period 1970–2006.The main results of the analysis are the following. (i) Thereis evidence of a significant multidirectional link between houseprices, monetary variables, and the macroeconomy. (ii) The linkbetween house prices and monetary variables is found to be strongerover a more recent sub-sample from 1985 to 2006. (iii) The effectsof shocks to money and credit are found to be stronger whenhouse prices are booming.     

Trade,FDI, migration,and the place premium: Mexico and the United States

Large wage differences between countries (“place premiums”) are well documented. Theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased migration, capital flows, and commercial integration. All three have increased between the United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in wage differentials for observationally identical workers over time. We find very little evidence of convergence. What evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US–Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may reduce the US–Mexico wage differential, these effects are small when compared to the overall wage gap.     

Trade,debt, and the Cuban economy

Like many other Latin American countries, Cuba pursued a strategy of “debt-led growth” in the mid-1970s and sustained large balance of payments deficits with the West. Though external balance was restored by 1979, Cuba faced a severe liquidity crisis in 1982 when short-term loans were suddenly withdrawn. This paper is a study of Cuba's seemingly exceptional ability to decrease its foreign debt after 1980, meet interest payments on time, and maintain an overall program of growth with equity. A combination of implicit Soviet trade subsidies, and Cuba's socialist polity and political-economic control, have apparently mitigated the constraints of the “world capitalist system,” and fostered an alternative program to the current austerity measures of most of Latin America.     

Options,premium contracts,and the EOE

Summary The article examines the development of options trading in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century to the present time. It shows how the market for traditional options, or premium contracts, was restricted by a number of limitations and how a new form of option — the exchange traded option, and a new options market — the European Options Exchange (E.O.E.), were introduced to overcome these limitations. It examines the first two years of operation of the E.O.E., analyzes some of the problems faced by the E.O.E., and looks at the future development of this new market.     

Money,Velocity, and the Stock Market

This paper provides a study of the relationship between money growth variability, velocity, and the stock market, using recent advances in financial econometrics. We estimate a trivariate VARMA, GARCH-in-Mean, BEKK model to quantify the effects of financial market and money supply instability. We investigate the robustness of the results to different definitions of money using monthly Divisia indices for the United States from the Center for Financial Stability (CFS). Empirical evidence supports significance of financial market and money supply volatility, and we conclude that Friedman’s money supply volatility hypothesis is alive and well.     

Modeling and predicting the development of the CES of Russia,Belarus, Kazakhstan,and Ukraine

The paper describes new approaches to the prediction of integration processes in the post-Soviet space and to the macroeconomic evaluation of the integration effect with the use of a cross-country model of structural interactions.     

Capital-market Liberalization, Globalization, and the IMF

One of the most controversial aspects of globalization is capital-marketliberalization—not so much the liberalization of rulesgoverning foreign direct investment, but those affecting short-termcapital flows, speculative hot capital that can come into andout of a country. In the 1980s and 1990s, the IMF and the USTreasury tried to push capital-market liberalization aroundthe world, encountering enormous opposition, not only from developingcountries, but from economists who were less enamoured of thedoctrines of free and unfettered markets, of market fundamentalism,that were at that time being preached by the international economicinstitutions. The economic crises of the late 1990s and earlyyears of the new millennium, which were partly, or even largely,attributable to capital-market liberalization, reinforced thosereservations. This paper takes as its point of departure a recentIMF paper, to provide insights both into how the IMF could havegone so wrong in its advocacy of capital-market liberalizationand into why capital-market liberalization has so often ledto increased economic instability, not to economic growth.