谨防文化产业融资风险

发挥政府引导功能,成立授信风险补偿基金,设立针对文化产业的担保机构,不失为防范融资风险的重要之举。     

农村微金融的“掌政模式”

微型金融是嘶氐收入群体为目标客户,为其提供贷款、储蓄、保险、转账服务等金融产品的金融业务。长期以来,我国农村地区的金融服务水平低,有效的金融服务不足,小型农业产业贷款困难,制约了我国农村地区经济的发展和农民收入的提高。因此,探索形成多种机构、多层次的农村金融体系,创新农村微型金融模式,成为有效提供金融服务和缓解农村金融抑制的重要途径。     

METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS

The specific characteristics of the public health care sector prevent the normal working of the market and the trend toward the efficient provision of services. The present study was carried out to offer the Audit Office of the Basque Country and Navarra an objective point of reference from which to measure the efficiency of clinical services. This study consists of an evaluation of the efficient production and utilization of the resources—intermediate services—that hospitals provide to medical staff for carrying out the diagnosis and treatment of patients, together with the efficient use of these intermediate services by the aforementioned medical staff.     

FUND ACCOUNTING IN NONPROFIT HOSPITALS: A LOBBYING PERSPECTIVE

Are comment letters submitted by nonprofit hospitals, as part of the accounting standard setting process, consistent with economic incentives as described by agency theory? In this study, thirteen identifiable hospital letters commenting on Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Statement No. 8 were analyzed in illustrating the association of economic attributes and lobbying positions within a segment of the healthcare industry. Independent hospitals with relatively greater amounts of endowment income were found to be among those who lobbied against single fund reporting, while larger, more profitable healthcare organizations with smaller endowments lobbied for single fund reporting. Although this small sample is not necessarily representative of the total input received by the HFMA in the formulation of Statement No. 8, the observations are consistent with the agency theoretic framework, and illustrate its potential usefulness in analyzing specialized industries such as healthcare.     

FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: LESSONS FROM THE RAILWAY AGE

In recent years suggestions for reforming the provision andfinancing of infrastructure services in developing countrieshave focused on private participation. This alternative to publicfinancing is seen as a way both to minimize the inefficienciesof public administration and to avoid the need for externalborrowing. In fact, for much of the nineteenth century, infrastructureprojects were privately financed and built. This approach, however,did not obviate the need for government intervention and foreigncapital. Because of the difficulties of assessing projects,investors were reluctant to commit their funds, and governmentsturned to subsidies and loan guarantees to encourage investment.Often, however, government intervention only replaced one setof problems with another. Investors with government-guaranteedloans had no incentive to monitor the firm's performance—alimitation that led to the diversion of funds and frustratedthe public interest. This article draws out the implicationsof this experience for policymakers in developing countriestoday.      

PHYSICIANS AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

Recent concern has been expressed over the reluctance of physicians in hospitals to take 'resource management to their hearts' (Pollitt et al. 1988, p. 232). This is important as physicians are increasingly becoming organization members with considerable economic and managerial involvement in hospitals. This paper provides some empirical evidence of differences which occur in physician behaviour once they become integrated into hospital management structures. Differences in physician managers' orientations to goals which focus on the organization as a system are compared to senior physicians in the same setting. In addition, a comparison is made between the attitudes and use of budgeting systems, a resource management strategy. The results indicate that changes in physician managers' orientation to management-related goals and organization obligations are reflected in their budgeting behaviour.     

抢抓农村改革中的金融机遇

用不到三年时间实现了“三个全国第一”、“三个全覆盖”和“三个有效覆盖”,逐步破解了农村贷款难、支付结算难、金融知识普及难的现状……作为全国农村金融综合改革试验田的广西田东县被认为是中国农村金融改革成功的典范之一。