The big story

When a mega-policy issue--health care reform--runs up against the Information Age, the result is likely to be increased earnings and career-making opportunities for journalists.     

A note on the equality of distribution of child mortality: Java-Bali, 1950-1976

Infant mortality is a widely recognized social indicator that is a useful index of the relative socioeconomic condition of subgroups of the population of a developing country. In developed countries, a more appropriate indicator of mortality is the proportion of babies who die before they reach their 5th birthday. 3 birth cohorts are identified from data provided by the Indonesian Fertility Survey conducted in Java and Bali in 1976 in order to examine the trend in mortality: births occurring 15 or more years before the survey, 10-14 years before the survey, and 5-9 years before the survey. 4 characteristics of parents related to education, occupation and urban vs. rural residence are used to analyze child mortality trends. A table shows the estimates for various combinations of these characteristics. Child mortality has decreased, but more importantly, it has decreased most for parents on the low end of the socioeconomic scale. Either parent having secondary education appears to be the key factor in the experience of low child mortality, although as more parents achieve secondary education, another factor may emerge as more important.     

克服流程改进“7宗罪”

任何行业任何规模的公司都已渐渐明白他们需要改进业务流程,包括产品开发、订单履行、计划、分销、账务处理、招聘、客服等流程。每个人都在做着——或至少是在谈论如何做——“流程改进”、“流程再设计”、或“流程再造”。如同采用其它的绩效改进努力一样,多数的组织都明确表达了对流程改进所期待的成果：节约成本、质量改进、压缩周期时间。     

亚投行威胁全球治理体系

2015年4月初,美国谴责英国加入中国倡导的亚投行(AIIB)一事,引发了人们对长年伴随政策制定者及经济学家的一系列问题的关注:谁在主管全球经济治理?谁制定并管理规则?规则的制定该由多国参与吗?停滞的进步中国对部分国家发放贷款备受争议;关于亚投行发展方向及各参与国所起作用的问题广受关注。但是,美国对这一新机构以及中国在其中所扮演角色所持的     

两位诗人及死亡

<正>追悼会1894年4月8日,般吉姆·钱德拉·恰托帕德亚(Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay),十九世纪孟加拉邦最著名的大文学家去世。他去世后三周,切塔尼亚图书馆和比顿广场图书馆俱乐部在繁星剧场(Star Theatre)组织了一场追悼会1