艾滋病对我国社会经济影响

基于对我国艾滋病流行较为严重的五个省份进行的问卷调查,对比分析了931户感染者家庭和995户非感染者家庭的相关数据。研究发现,艾滋病对感染者个人及其家庭造成了极大的影响,如导致家庭结构改变、就业机会减少、劳动收入下降、医疗支出明显增大;同时也引发一系列社会经济问题,如贫富差距加大、性别不平等加剧、贫困家庭儿童教育机会减少及社会歧视扩大。最后提出了缓解艾滋病造成影响的对策建议。     

陕西省数字普惠金融对经济增长的影响研究

数字普惠金融作为金融科技与普惠金融的深度融合,对地区经济发展有着重大影响。基于陕西省10个地级市2012—2021年的面板数据,采用固定效应模型进行实证检验,探究陕西省数字普惠金融对经济增长的影响以及地区差异。研究结果显示,陕西省数字普惠金融的发展在推动整体经济增长方面发挥了积极作用,并呈现明显的区域异质性特征。在此基础上,提出相关的对策建议。     

Rural Women's Survivalist Livelihoods and State Interventions in Ga‐Ramogale Village,Limpopo Province

Abstract: Women constitute the majority of rural dwellers experiencing the worst effects of poverty while carrying the responsibility of securing a living for their households. Historically, rural women have practised a multiplicity of livelihoods that have always remained survivalist and less effective in generating cash income. However, well‐intended state interventions through Poverty Alleviation Programme (PAP) projects for women's empowerment have instead removed women from their practice of survivalist livelihoods without offering them the necessary enabling conditions to establish independent biographies for practice of ‘modern’ cash generating strategies. Based on a systematic sample of 177 households and interviews with women in Ga‐Ramogale, this article concludes that PAP projects have, rather than empowering women for sustainable participation in rural development, deepened their poverty and deprivation by enticing them away from the practice of livelihoods for which they had developed experience, skills and knowledge over years, and thereby effectively engendering increased reliance on dependency‐oriented livelihoods.     

江苏城乡经济一体化研究

江苏处于东部沿海发达地区,国民经济、社会发展水平已居全国前列,已经进入了工业化的中后期,已经具备了推进城乡经济一体化的条件。本文主要采用城市化水平、二元对比系数、城乡居民收入差异系数和城乡居民恩格尔系数差异系数四个基本指标对江苏省及各地市的城乡经济一体化的现状进行了测量与计算与分析,判断其城乡一体化实现程度,并根据这种现状,提出具有针对性的建议。     

Migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Although migration and HIV/AIDS have been examined separately in South Africa, researchers are still far from understanding in detail just how and to what extent the two are interconnected. The connections are difficult to unravel because HIV/AIDS arrived in the country at a time when population mobility and systems of labour migration were undergoing rapid transformation. Without a proper understanding of the complexity of the country's new migration regime, it will not be possible to understand either the role of mobility in the spread of the pandemic or the vulnerability to infection of mobile populations. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the interconnections between mobility and HIV and argues for more research that will further understanding of migrant vulnerability and the development of appropriate policies and models of intervention and care.     

The effects of female HIV/AIDS status on fertility and child health in Cambodia

Although Cambodia has been on a higher growth track, it still faces a great challenge in public health. Public health is closely related to the standard of living of the people and is indispensable for further economic development. This paper considers a serious public health problem, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Cambodia. Specifically, it presents two testable hypotheses derived from a simple model and then empirically demonstrates these hypotheses, using data of more than 8000 women from the 2005 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). One hypothesis is the negative effect of female HIV on fertility, and the other is the positive effect of maternal HIV on child health status. Our estimation results are consistent with these hypotheses, implying that women infected with HIV tend to bear fewer children and their children are in better health.