宿松承接产业转移路径之思考

2010年1月21日国务院正式批复《皖江城市带承接产业转移示范区规划》,为皖江地区乃至整个安徽省的经济社会发展带来重大历史机遇。本文从区域经济角度剖析宿松作为皖江之首,在承接产业转移中面临的机遇和挑战以及从平台建设等方面提出自己的一些关于宿松承接产业转移的对策建议。     

着力推进港口资源整合 助推产业转移示范市建设

国家皖江城市带承接产业转移示范区建设规划,作为皖江新一轮大开发、大开放的重大机遇、强大引擎,给铜陵加快发展带来了千载难逢的机遇。作为工贸港口城市,推进港口资源整合,加快港口建设和发展,充分发挥长江黄金水道的作用,进一步增强承接产业转移的支撑能力,应是铜陵加快建设承接转移示范市建设的题中应有之义。     

宁夏承接东部产业转移的相关问题研究

产业转移是经济发展的一种必然趋势，宁夏如何抓住承接产业转移的机遇，将事关长远发展的全局。本文就当前东部产业转移的特征、宁夏面临的机遇挑战及承接中需要重视的问题等方面进行研究。     

安徽承接产业转移的基础与对策

长三角地区面临着经济转型和产业结构升级的局面,迫于商务成本的提高,急于转移产业,安徽作为长三角地区腹地,连接中西部地区的主要省份,有承接东部产业转移的优势与机遇.文章详细分析了安徽承接东部产业转移的现实基础和外部机遇,从宏观、中观、徽观方面,提出安徽承接东部产业转移的思路和对策.     

广西西江经济带承接产业转移探析——以贵港、玉林、梧州、贺州4市为例

加快承接珠三角产业转移,推动经济实现跨越式发展,对广西加快西江经济带建设、实施"双核驱动"战略具有重要意义。文章阐述广西西江经济带承接产业转移态势,分析面临的机遇和挑战,提出承接产业转移的对策建议。     

皖江城市带承接产业转移的SWOT分析

建立皖江城市带承接产业转移示范区是国家促进区域经济协调发展的一项重大战略规划。通过采用SWOT法分析皖江城市带承接产业转移的优势、劣势、机遇和挑战,对进一步认识皖江城市带承接产业转移示范区的内外部环境具有现实指导作用。最后,为推进和加快皖江城市带承接产业转移示范区建设提出了政策建议。     

中部地区加工贸易产业转移的模式与机制研究——以湖北省为例

当前,加工贸易正呈现从沿海地区向中西部内陆地区加速转移的新趋势,这给内陆地区发展带来了机遇。文章以湖北省为例,通过对其承接加工贸易产业转移进行SWOT分析,提出承接加工贸易产业转移的基本原则和模式,构建了承接加工贸易产业转移的运行机制。     

提升西部地区产业承接能力研究

产业转移对承接方具有优势升级效应和结构优化效应，西部地区能否充分利用产业转移带来的机遇，关键在于承接能力。影响产业承接能力主要因素有两方面，一方面是西部地区产业承接的客观环境；另一方面是西部地区承接产业的竞争力。该文认为，西部地区应该采取积极主动的措施改善产业转移的环境；发挥承接企业的主体功能，提高产业竞争力；进而提升产业承接能力，发展西部地区经济。     

四川承接纺织服装产业转移战略探析——基于SWOT分析方法

在承接东部纺织服装产业转移方面,四川既有优势,也有劣势,既面临机遇,也面临威胁。文章采用SWOT方法分析表明,四川应审时度势,充分发挥比较优势,主动承接东部沿海地区纺织服装产业转移,吸引知名纺织服装企业和著名品牌落户四川,更好的承接东部纺织服装产业转移。     

提升怀化示范区承接产业转移能力的对策研究

纳入湘南湘西承接产业转移示范区建设,给怀化既带来了重大机遇,也面临新的挑战。怀化必须立足实际,发挥示范区比较优势,正视自身存在的不足,通过夯实基础、差异承接、做优环境等,不断提升怀化示范区承接产业转移能力,促进经济社会高质量发展。     

Local Responses to Long-term Unemployment: Delivering Access to Employment in Edinburgh

This paper examines locally developed policy responses to long-term unemployment in the city of Edinburgh: a labour market characterised by relatively low-unemployment and generally high levels of demand. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 115 long-term unemployed people residing in the city, the paper first analyses the complex combination of barriers to work faced by members of this client group. Two recent labour market initiatives, developed by the local authority in partnership with other public and third sector agencies and (in one case) major employers, are then discussed. It is suggested that this locally focused, partnership-based approach may provide a useful model for local policy responses to long-term unemployment, particularly in buoyant labour markets.     

Structural Challenges to Sustained Economic Growth in China

This essay focuses on three broad sets of issues that may not slow China's GDP growth to under 3 percent a year, but they will almost certainly create major social and physical problems that will be difficult to deal with. The first is the demographic and education challenges featured by a rapidly aging population combined with a large share of the population being under-educated. The second is the environmental challenges China faces in achieving the state goal of carbon neutrality by 2060. The third challenge is low consumption and unprecedentedly high investment, a strategy that has driven China's high growth rates in the past decades but is no longer sustainable. These three challenges are intertwined, making China's adjustment path even more uncertain. What would a sustainable development strategy involve? The clearest need is to shift investment away from energy-intensive housing and infrastructure and toward investment in people.     

Infrastructure in South Africa: Who is to finance and who is to pay?

Against the backdrop of shifting views on the role of government in the provision of infrastructure, this paper distinguishes between the payment for and financing of the South African Government's infrastructure investment programme. The paper argues for a clear distinction between loan financing by the government for macroeconomic considerations and the benchmark approach to the financing of infrastructural projects. It presents a classification system that enables a systematic mapping of all prospective projects, with reference to considerations of efficiency and equity, and uses this system to question the government's financing strategy and identify alternatives. The Gautrain Rapid Rail project is used as a case study to demonstrate these alternatives.     

Factors contributing to the financial crisis in Korea

Korea's economic development is a well documented fact. The globalization of the Korean economy brought with it a high rate of economic growth. The Korean economy began to experience a financial crisis from late 1997. This paper inquires into the causes that led to such a crisis. It shows that there were economic indicators foretelling the crisis. Among many factors causing the crisis, the current account deficit, the inadequate cash flows of corporations and the banks' weakening finances, and the small amount of international reserves, provided conditions for a successful speculative attack on the Korean won. The government guarantees led to over-investment and excessive borrowing. Thus, the self-fulfilling hypothesis of Flood and Garbers (1984) and Obstfeld (1986) and the hypothesis of Krugman (1998) explain the causes of the Korean crisis to a great extent. This paper addresses banks' performance and the weak financial condition of corporations and concludes that to get back on the path of stable economic growth, export diversification and productivity growth, together with a sound financial system, is necessary.     

福建在"中国-东盟自由贸易区"发展中的战略选择

2005年,中国-东盟自由贸易区建设的全面启动,预示着中国与东南亚各国经贸合作由此进入了一个快速、全面、突破性发展的新阶段,它的建立必然会对亚洲经济乃至全球经济产生一定的影响。本文探讨福建与东盟国家经贸合作的条件,以及经贸合作发展战略和产业选择,以谋求更快发展。     

China in the Global Response to Climate Change

China has a huge national interest in the success of the international effort to hold human-induced increases in temperature to 1.5 degrees – and therefore in global net emissions falling to net zero by 2050. China is essential to the success of the global effort – as a supplier of competitively priced equipment for the zero emissions world economy and as the world's largest current source of greenhouse gas emissions. Success is more likely for China and the world with international specialization in goods production for the zero emissions economy. This will require open international trade, with China supplying equipment and drawing zero emissions semi-processed goods from abroad. Success is more likely and will be achieved at a lower cost if there is close cooperation across national boundaries.     

Returns to education among entrepreneurs in Bangladesh

This article estimates returns to education among entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, using unique survey data from 2012. Our main instrument for education is the education of the father of the entrepreneur, and we control for sibling education in order to take out the potential effect of father education on productivity and profitability. The results suggest a return to education in the order of 11 per cent per year of education. Using the education of the mother as an alternative instrument, we find evidence of heterogeneous returns to education among entrepreneurs. Compared to our main instrument, the education of mothers appears to affect education choices among individuals with relatively higher participation probabilities in education, where returns to education are lower.     

Constraints to biofuel feedstock production expansion in Zambia

ABSTRACT

World biofuel production has been increasing to improve energy security and mitigate global warming. Southern Africa’s bioenergy demand could increase with South Africa’s planned fuel blending mandates, triggering increased demand for feedstocks and agricultural land. Ensuring sustained production will require a full understanding of the constraints to production expansion, considering the tradeoffs that may be generated in rural areas, as has been observed for large-scale land acquisitions. We analyse the social and biophysical constraints to biofuel production expansion in Zambia. Previously social constraints have received limited attention even though they may prove more problematic. Results indicate that Zambia is at least moderately suitable for bioenergy investments with biophysically suitable areas largely coinciding with the socially suitable areas. However, existing gaps in compensatory procedures may inhibit large-scale projects’ access to development finance if not aligned with internationally acceptable practices, and generate negative outcomes if safeguards are not in place.     

Educational differences in parental time devoted to childcare in China

The intergenerational transmission of education in China has drawn extensive public and academic attention. This paper explores the differences in the amount of time Chinese parents spend on childcare stratified by education level and investigates the factors driving these differences. The analysis shows that more educated parents devote more time to childcare than less-educated parents. The educational differences in parental childcare time are particularly pronounced among working parents, parents with school-age children, and parents in the provinces where educational institutions are relatively scarce. Much of the extra childcare time is directed to educational care and travel with children. Compared to households in which the mother has less than a junior high school education, households with university-educated mothers spend 74 min more per day on childcare, with 58% of the extra time devoted to children's learning and education.     

Exchange rate regime switching in Malaysia and Singapore in response to China’s move to a basket peg: A DSGE analysis

Motivated by the observation that when China broke from its US dollar peg in 2005, Malaysia and Singapore likewise loosened their currency ties to the US dollar, this paper considers how these two countries might best respond to a hypothetical transition by China to a new basket peg regime. We specify five alternative exchange rate strategies that encompass fixed, basket, and floating regimes and gradual versus sudden transitions. To project outcomes for macroeconomic variables under these alternative regimes, we apply a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of a small open economy and incorporate exogenous shocks as actually occurred from 2005 Q1 to 2014 Q4. We then compare the strategies based on values of a cumulative loss function defined on the output gap, the inflation rate, and the real effective exchange rate. The exercise reveals that a gradual adjustment to a basket peg with long-term optimal weights is the first-best policy for both countries, where optimal weights are derived to minimize the loss function. Further, both a sudden shift to a basket peg with optimal weights and a sudden shift to a floating rate regime are superior to maintaining the dollar peg in Malaysia, but not to maintaining the existing basket peg in Singapore.