Global market shocks and poverty in Vietnam: the case of rice

World food prices have experienced dramatic increases in recent years. These “shocks” affect food importers and exporters alike. Vietnam is a major exporter of rice, and rice is also a key item in domestic production, employment, and consumption. Accordingly, rice price shocks from the world market have general equilibrium impacts and as such, their implications for household welfare are not known ex ante. In this article, we present a framework for understanding the direct and indirect welfare effects of a global market shock of this kind. We quantify transmission of the shock from global indicator prices to domestic markets. Then we use an applied general equilibrium model to simulate the economic effects of the price changes. A recursive mapping to a nationally representative household living standards survey permits us to identify in detail the ceteris paribus effects of the shock on household incomes and welfare. In this analysis, interregional and intersectoral labor market adjustments emerge as key channels transmitting the effects of global price shocks across sectors and among households.     

Restructuring Japanese business through Kyosei: Capitalizing on international strategic alliances at the consumer level

Japan of the post-bubble era is the object of much reflection and speculation pertaining to risutora or restructuring of the economy. This study provides a novel, analytical perspective on the fundamental issues involved in the shift of momentum that characterizes Japanese business and economic restructuring. After examining the economic and corporate dimensions of the transitional forces that shape Japan's restructuring process, this study focuses on two powerful, yet often ignored, agents of change: the emergence of a new class of collaborative mandates, kyosei, and the rise of consumer power. The study further emphasizes the importance of planning and managing corporate-level restructuring activities with the interests of end users in mind, by empirically demonstrating the significance of strategic alliances, as a corporate restructuring option, on consumers. The results show that consumers' impression of alliances with Japanese firms have a strong effect on future attitudes toward each partnering brand. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

市场经济的伦理缺陷研究

市场经济的伦理缺陷:首先,表现在市场经济基本理念与传统道德价值与原则的根本冲突;其次,表现在市场经济运行过程对经济原则的片面坚持与对伦理价值的顽固排斥与否定。克服市场经济伦理缺陷的根本办法在于重新审视经济理性的合理性,检讨经济发展的终极意义,使市场经济以及经济理性回复到在伦理规则指引下为人类主体性生存服务的合理轨道上来。     

关于国有风险投资发展困境与对策的思考

国有风险投资面对着退出渠道不畅通、平均投资收益低、管理体制僵化、增值服务能力弱、募资能力不足、政府实质性扶持政策欠缺等困境,从现阶段生存与再发展角度考虑,国有风险投资除期待中国投融资环境进一步改善外,必须面对国情主动进行体制创新与管理创新。     

银行监管理论的发展趋势——监管有效性理论

新的金融环境下,传统的监管理论遭遇挑战,其有效性受到置疑。监管有效性理论立足新问题,着重从资本监管、市场纪律和激励相容三个方面予以改进,试图提高银行监管的有效性。鉴于我国银行监管缺乏效率的现状,监管有效性理论具有一定的借鉴价值。     

Reviving brand loyalty: A reconceptualization within the framework of consumer-brand relationships

This paper uses the perspective of interpersonal relationship theory to critically examine, reposition, and extend the notion of brand loyalty. Depth interviews among eight coffee-consuming adults who qualified as brand loyal by traditional criteria provide the data. The result is a deeper appreciation of the character of loyal consumer-brand relations and a sharper awareness of the limitations to understanding that current theoretical frameworks impose. Specifically, the authors suggest that: (1) not all loyal brand relationships are alike, in strength or in character; (2) many brand relationships not identified as ‘loyal’ according to dominant theoretical conceptions are especially meaningful from the cunsumer's point of view; and (3) current approaches to classification accept some brand relationships that, upon close scrutiny, do not possess assumed characteristics of ‘loyalty’ or ‘strength’ at all. Ideas stemming from a reframing of loyalty as one component in a multifaceted construct of relationship strength are put forth, encouraging a move from the metaphor of ‘loyalty’ to the broader notion of ‘relationships’ that encompasses it.     

建设和谐深圳是一项社会创新工程

建设和谐深圳是一个观念更新的过程。它要求全社会牢固树立以人为本的发展观,以追求效率、公平和协同,改革、发展和稳定,经济、社会和生态等社会进步的集群目标代替追求单一的发展目标,在继续保持经济的健康快速增长、加快改善人民物质生活的同时,加快政治文明、精神文明和生态文明建设,使经济的健康发展建立在社会、生态健康发展的基础上。在社会营造一种鼓励竞争与倡导合作,支持强者与关怀弱者、追求经济利益和社会总体利益相对均衡的发展氛围,促进社会进步的协同性和安全性,高度关注和努力抑制因社会转型、利益调整、梯度发展和要素流动…     

第三方物流组织管理模式浅析

随着现代信息技术的发展,在发达国家现代物流已成为新兴支柱产业,在降低资源消耗和提高生产效率之后,被称为“第三种利润源泉”。物流市场的兴起使得第三方物流的作用也越来越被人所重视,第三方物流国外常称之为契约物流、物流联盟或物流外部化,是20世纪80年代中期才在欧美发达国家出现的概念,目前国内外都还没有确切的定义,一个公认的划分是把独立与产、销之外的其他物流活动的承担者统称为第三方物流。第三方物流已越来越成为物流市场的主体,在美国有57%的物流量是通过第三方物流业完成的,在社会化配送发展得最好的日本,第三方物流业占整…     

企业核心竞争力新论——“识时务者为俊杰”的启示

目前，关于企业核心竞争力的研究论著很多，但尚没有形成一个让各类企业都认同；并具有操作性的观点，而且存在一个共同的不足，那就是没有从企业生存和发展的根本人手去进行研究，而企业生存和发展的根本就是企业对生存和发展机会的把握。本文尝试从这一新的视角人手，对企业核心竞争力的本质、核心竞争力的载体、现代企业应具备什么样的核心竞争力等问题进行了深入研究。     

浅谈特区经济发展中的计算机教育

一、特区经济发展中计算机教育的重要作用 经济特区是中国经济体制改革的“试验田”，也是中国对外开放的“窗口”和通往世界的桥梁。1979年创办经济特区，经过5年的努力，取得初步成功。国务院马上推广特区经验，于1984年5月宣布开放了天津、上海、大连、秦皇岛等14个沿海城市。同年10月，中共中央又做出《关于经济体制改革的决定》，提出国内经济发达地区和比较不发达地区，沿海、内地和边疆，城市和农村，