Sustainable futures: policies for global development

Global sustainable development is the overarching challenge for social and economic policy today. The paper elaborates the concept of sustainable development, identifies some of the levers and policies that might help attain it, describes a modeling system used for analysis, and presents the results of evaluating the impacts of policies and an integrated scenario built upon them.Particular attention is given to measures related to research, technology development and the wider use of networking technologies, and to the hypothesis that investments in these areas offer a ‘triple-win’ opportunity for growth, greater equity and resource-efficiency. We show that the combination of policy initiatives in these areas can offer a valuable alternative and/or complement to constraints on businesses and life-styles that are commonly proposed for sustainable development.     

亚行认为中国须平衡交通发展与环境可持续性的关系

亚洲开发银行新近出版的一份报告称,中国快速展开的交通基础设施建设一直是其经济取得成功的核心所在,但现在中国需要更重视发展具有环境可持续性的交通体系,以帮助其减少对石油的严重依赖。     

实现财富管理行业可持续发展

在"中国财富管理50人论坛首届年会"上,中国证监会主席助理张育军则表示,没有投资人的价值成长,就没有财富管理行业可持续发展的基础,也就没有资本市场健康稳定的发展。他说近年来,随着中国经济、金融的快速发展,随着居民财富的不断积累与增长,中国财富管理行业取得了令人瞩目的成绩:机构日益多元,产品不断丰富,规模不断增长。截止2012年底,中国的基金管理公司     

Experiences of the development and use of scenarios for evaluating Swedish environmental quality objectives

This paper presents and evaluates a method for encouraging long-term thinking and for considering a variety of scenarios in environmental policy processes. The Swedish environmental policy is based on 16 environmental quality objectives (EQOs) that national authorities are obliged to observe. These objectives are reviewed annually and evaluated in depth every four years. Here we describe and explore a futures study project for introducing more long-term thinking into work on the EQOs, which we tested in the in-depth evaluation in 2008. We found it difficult to design a collective scenario for a case with a wide variety of objectives and individuals with different backgrounds. However, this difficulty makes it even more important to incorporate futures studies into the work of the relevant authorities. Scenario work is often subcontracted, leading to a constant lack of futures studies expertise and thinking within authorities. Despite the difficulties, we found that experts within the authorities did begin to recognise the opportunities provided by futures studies. The project revealed an interest and need for futures studies within the authorities in charge of Swedish environmental quality objectives and our findings show that the authorities need to build up their own skills in futures studies.     

Experiences of the development and use of scenarios for evaluating Swedish national environmental objectives

The aim of the present paper is to present and evaluate a method for encouraging long-term thinking and considerations of a variety of scenarios in environmental policy processes. The Swedish environmental policy is based on 16 environmental objectives that national authorities are responsible for. They are evaluated annually and also in-depth every fourth year. Here we describe and explore a futures study project for introducing a more long-term thinking in the work with the environmental objectives, tested in the in-depth evaluation 2008. An experience was that it is difficult to design a collective scenario work in a case with a wide variety of objectives and with individuals with different backgrounds. However, this difficulty makes it even more important to incorporate futures studies in authorities work. Scenario work is often subcontracted, leading to a constant lack of futures studies competence and thinking at the authorities. Another experience is that despite the difficulties, experts at the authorities did start thinking more in terms of opportunities with futures studies. A general conclusion from the work was that there is an interest and need for futures studies at the authorities in charge of the environmental objectives. The possibly most important conclusion from this project was that the authorities need to build up their own competences in futures studies.     

论农业发展银行转轨时期的信贷管理——谈农业发展银行改革与发展中应处理好的十大关系

本文对粮棉油流通体制市场化改革进程中的信贷管理进行了深入探讨,认为要重视并处理好十大关系.     

城市农业政策金融业务拓展问题研究——以武汉市城区行为例

文章探讨城市农业政策性金融业务拓展问题。     

影响我国农业保险发展的多因素实证分析

我国是一个自然灾害发生频繁的国家,每次重大自然灾害都会对我国的农业生产带来巨大的影响。农业保险通过建立对农业损失的补偿机制,在分散农业风险、减少农业灾害损失、增加农民收入等方面都具有重大的作用。本文首先用文献的方法析出影响农业保险发展的因素,然后运用计量工具对影响我国农业保险发展的因素进行了实证分析,得出政府的财政补偿性支出是决定我国农业保险发展的最显著因素。     

Investment decisions: The trade-off between economic and environmental objectives

While there are broader socio-political, psychological, and structural factors that influence investment decisions (see Harris et al., 2016), in line with the critical approach, this study provides an empirical insight into the notion that financialization, specifically the tendency to prioritise economic over environmental objectives, has a strong bearing on how managers view investment trade-off decisions in relation to sustainability issues. The study empirically investigates this notion by examining the investment trade–off preferences of Australian managers in relation to three decision attributes – economic outcomes (i.e. financial returns), environmental impact (i.e. carbon emissions) and stakeholder pressure to consider environmental issues. We use the discrete choice experimental method to quantify the trade-offs between the above mentioned three attributes. In addition, we also investigate the potential effect of three contingency factors on individual's preferences. Specifically, at the organisational level, we explore the effects of financial and environmental rewards and at the individual level, we explore the effect of environmental consciousness. In line with the financialization hypotheses our results indicate that managers prioritise financial returns over carbon emissions and stakeholder pressures with the preference for financial returns found to be positively associated with rewards for financial performance. However, in line with the pragmatic approach and despite the overall dominance of financial returns, there is evidence that manager's focus on financial returns can be influenced, with the preference for financial returns negatively associated with rewards for environmental performance and environmental consciousness. In addition, while stakeholder pressure was not found to be associated with any of the three contingency factors and, manager's emphasis on carbon emissions was not associated with financial rewards, manager's emphasis on carbon emissions was found to be positively associated with both rewards for environmental performance and environmental consciousness. Therefore, our findings suggest that corporate management have an important role to play, both in respect to the design of performance rewards systems and the recruitment of environmentally conscious managers, in order to promote the sustainability agenda.     

论农业政策性银行的发展与和谐社会的建设

构建社会主义和谐社会,是党中央从全面建设小康社会、开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面的全局出发提出的一项重大任务,适应了我国改革发展进入关键时期的客观要求,体现了广大人民群众的根本利益和共同愿望。当前,在全党开展以实践“三个代表”重要思想为主要内容的保持共产党员先进性教育活动,是贯彻落实党的十六大和三中、四中及五中全会精神的一项重要活动,也是加强党的先进性建设和提高党的执政能力的一项重大举措。构建社会主义和谐社会,不仅是社会主义建设的重要组成部分,而且也是实现党执政的历史使命的重要目标。加强党的先进性建设是…     

新农村建设与农业政策金融发展问题研究

建设社会主义新农村是我国现代化建设进程中的重大历史任务,新农村建设需要巨大的资金投入,作为我国唯一的农业政策性金融机构的农业发展银行,肩负着为新农村建设提供资金的历史任务。然而,目前的农业政策性金融还存在一些困境,限制了农业政策性金融支农作用的发挥。在分析农业政策性金融履职历程和剖析农业发展银行困境的基础上,提出了改革与完善农业发展银行的主要政策建议。     

Organizational control systems in research and development

This paper empirically examines an organizational control framework in research and development (R/D) settings. Data were collected from 76 R/D work group leaders. Analysis of the data indicates that the importance of controls is associated with knowledge of the task transformation process (technological uncertainty) but not with measurability of the work group's outputs, task complexity or task dependence. It is suggested that the results of this and other research indicate the need for a more complete theoretical framework as well as attention to measurement issues.     

我国农业保险经营机构发展研究

促进农业保险经营机构的健康发展是建立我国农业保险体系的重要组成部分。基于此,本文研究了我国农业保险经营机构的发展状况,分析其存在的共性问题及其形成原因,并探讨了如何构建促进农业保险经营机构发展的机制,即完善政府的支持机制,加强农业保险经营机构自身的内部治理机制,建立农业保险经营机构与有关各方的社会协同机制,以形成促进农业保险经营机构发展的合力,推动我国农业保险事业的健康发展。     

农业发展银行支持农业产业化发展研究

文章分析了农发行支持农业产业化龙头企业发展的重要性和必要性,结合湖北省当前农业产业化发展态势,提出了相应的信贷对策与建议。     

《2014年种植业工作要点》有望引领农业创新发展

信托投资公司、手机信息服务商有望引领金融和移动互联网行业．开展与农业行业的大规模合作．发力农业领域     

基于资源依赖理论的农业保险组织体系

美日两国是世界上举办农业保险相对成功的国家,本文运用资源依赖理论提出了一个农业保险组织——资源分析框架,据此分析比较了美国和日本农业保险组织依存的资源环境及由此构建的农业保险组织体系。借鉴美日两国农业保险组织的经验,构建符合我国农业保险组织资源的组织体系,以促进农业保险发展。     

山西省典型贫困县农业产业发展状况辨识与分析

历经多年的扶贫开发,山西省贫困人口数量大幅减少,创造出综合开发、全面治理等许多行之有效的脱贫模式。各地依据自身条件,培育了一大批优势农业产业,粮食产量和农林牧渔产值有了明显增加,取得了良好的社会经济效益。本文通过对山西省36个贫困县农业产业现状的归纳和实证分析,提出了贫困县相应的农业产业发展路径、特色农业产业的重点发展方向。