Powerful stakeholders' views of entertainment in Macao's future

The researchers employ stakeholder interviews to explore prospects for entertainment development in one rapidly changing Asia Pacific location, Macao. The authors complete eleven useful interviews with influential stakeholders through the access provided by high level institutional networks. Using the discourse analysis approach, the 11 stakeholder interviews generate 267 inferences from 547 keywords/phrases. Overall the interviewees express enthusiasm for the usefulness of expanding entertainment options. Concerns the stakeholders highlight include potential value conflicts between the public and the private sectors in the collaboration process, the existing and dominant over-reliance on gaming development and the need for the government to maintain consistencies in entertainment enabling policies. Future forms of tourism and entertainment in Macao, and more generally in the Asia Pacific region, are arguably very likely to be influenced by the views of key stakeholders and the resolution of the issues they raise.     

磨盘山净水厂沉淀过滤系统方案设计

本文针对磨盘山净水厂的实际情况,对该水厂的沉淀过滤系统设备选择进行了方案设计.以工程总体要求及投资控制方法对各个设计进行了对比择优,并给出了最终解决方案.通过工程实践及实际运营证明了本设计的有效性和可行性.     

新时期医院全面预算管理工作刍议

作为关系到老百姓生活质量的重要产业部门,医院担负着重要的社会责任,近几年随着经济政治体制改革的不断深化,我国各级医院的产权关系发生了很大的改变,逐步变为自负盈亏、自我发展的独立法人.面对愈加开放的市场,医院面临诸多新问题,本文笔者从全面预算管理的角度分析新时期医院财务管理工作的问题,并提出相应的完善措施.     

Economics and the treatment of AIDS: a preliminary assessment

This paper applied cost-effectiveness analysis to the use of drug therapy in the treatment of AIDS. The empirical approach adopted overcame the facts that the samples of patients had varying clinical prognoses, had variable entry dates into the samples and, because AIDS is a terminal disease, had variable exit dates. Holding these variables constant, administration of the drug AZT proved to be a less costly alternative than other existing palliatives for AIDS. The sub-sample of patients treated with AZT had lower hospitalization costs, lower caring costs and sufferers had an increased ability to continue to participate for longer as economically active members of society.     

The Educational Choice Anomaly for Principles Students: Using Ordinary Supply and Demand Rather than Indifference Curves

The surprise value of many economic observations makes the economics discipline quite interesting for many students. One such anomaly is that providing “free” education in an effort to reduce the number of dropouts can often result in a lower level of educational quality purchased. This result is easy to show with indifference curves, but many instructors of introductory courses do not introduce this analytical technique. As a consequence, a result that many students find quite interesting is seldom presented. The authors show that it is easy to clarify the educational choice anomaly with ordinary supply and demand curves. Moreover, the exercise of doing so provides students with a greater understanding of benefit/cost analysis as well as consumer and producer surplus.     

Where is the balance? Implications of adopting Special Products and Sensitive Products in Doha negotiations for world and China's agriculture

This paper analyzes the potential impacts of the agreements of Special Products and Sensitive Products (SPs) in Doha negotiations on world and China's Agriculture. By linking a global trade model to a national policy model which itself is connected to a set of disaggregated household data, we are able to assess the effects of the inclusion of SPs into a Doha agreement on agriculture in China and the rest of the world and different farmers across China. Our results show that since the inclusion of SPs in a Doha agreement adds more protection in agriculture, the total quantity of resources used in world agriculture increases. Although increasing, it is important to note that the total rise is only a fraction of a percent of agricultural value added and the gains to rural income per capita are likewise small. Moreover, an important difference between the apparent benefits of SPs is highlighted when they are considered for one country alone and when they are made available to all WTO members. The benefits to agriculture in China (and other countries) from increases in protection resulting from SPs are typically offset when these flexibilities are made available to all countries. While there are some positive benefits for certain vulnerable groups in society (in China), we show that there are adverse effects on equity and the impacts differ largely among regions.