China’s Labor Market on Crossroad

I.IntroductionSincethelate1990s,China’slabor market has comeundergreat pressure,asreflected by anincreasing unemployment rate,and adeclining labor force participation rate.The causesofthe severe unemployment are threefold.First,due to the macro-economic downturn andrapid industrial structural change in the late1990s,state-owned enterprises(SOEs),whichlost their comparative advantage and competitiveness,have been unable to fully utilizetheir production capacity,and have become loss-makers.Se…     

为中国的质量革命做好准备

美国派顿出版社总编（目前《质量文摘》由该出版社出版）、前《质量文摘》总编派顿先生2005年11月16日访问了上海质量管理科学研究院。在访问期间．派顿先生为《质量文摘》撰写了专栏文章，下面我们将主要内容译成中文。     

Should Chinese Local Governments Be Allowed to Issue Bonds?

I.IntroductionDespite China’s impressive economic growth,its fiscal sustainability has increasinglybecome one of the most watched risk indicators facing the economy.Although China’sexplicit national debtto GDP ratio israther manageable by theOECD standard,at about20 percent of GDP,given its small share of tax revenue to GDP,currently at18.5percent ofGDP,this fiscalsystem may stumble upon major challenges in themedium to long term ifChina’slargecontingent fiscal liabilitiesare als…     

马上男儿的选股秘诀

郝特韦经常练习一种特殊的双人骑马运动,这需要他和他的骏马,以及另一个人---通常情况下是他的儿子马克斯---共同练习。在这项比赛中,两名参赛者需要轮流骑马竞速。对于他投资的股票,62岁的郝特韦喜欢这样打趣:“有些在飞驰,有些还在小跑。”可是,就是这样的投资组合近10年来为郝特韦基金带来了年均16.2%的高收益率,比标准普尔500指数高出整整4.7个百分点。他评估股票的主要方法便是自由现金流法。经营性现金流减去资本支出,所剩下的余额就是自由现金。私有公司的老板更关注自由现金而非净利润,因为自由现金能给他们更大的余地,来安排资本用…     

农信社开办票据承兑贴现业务的难点与对策

一、农村信用社开办票据承兑贴现业务主要有以下几个难点: 难点之一:由于农村信用社未受商业银行委托,不能独立开具银行承兑汇票,致使在农村信用社开立主帐户的企业,只能通过商业银行辅助帐户办理银行承兑业务.     

Urban development patterns in Indonesia

The author examines recent urban development in Indonesia. "Analysis of urban developments in Indonesia has been hampered in the past by weak data. Recently, the National Urban Development Strategy (NUDS) project has generated a set of improved data. This paper aims at elaborating and supplementing the NUDS study. After a discussion of definitional problems, an analysis is carried out of urban growth rates at the provincial level. Private investment is shown to be a principal determinant of urban growth rates. Other significant determinants are rural immigration and the present level of urbanisation. Private investment is shown to be strongly biased towards provinces with large urban areas. In addition, polarisation is studied at the level of individual cities. It is found that a period of rapidly increasing polarisation has come to an end during the last decade."     

The CEO as organizational architect: an interview with Xerox's Paul Allaire. Interview by Robert Howard

As chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation, Paul Allaire leads a company that is a microcosm of the changes transforming American business. With the introduction of the first plain-paper copier in 1959, Xerox invented a new industry and launched itself on a decade of spectacular growth. But easy growth led Xerox to neglect the fundamentals of its core business, leaving the company vulnerable to low-cost Japanese competition. Starting in the mid-1980s, Xerox embarked on a long-term effort to regain its dominant position in world copier markets and to create a new platform for future growth. Thanks to the company's Leadership through Quality program, Xerox became the first major U.S. company to win back market share from the Japanese. Allaire describes his efforts to take Xerox's corporate transformation to a new level. Since becoming CEO in 1990, he has repositioned Xerox as "the document company" at the intersection of the worlds of paper-based and electronic information. And he has guided the company through a fundamental redesign of what he calls the "organizational architecture" of Xerox's document processing business. Few CEOs have approached the process of organizational redesign as systematically and methodically as Allaire has. He has created a new corporate structure that balances independent business divisions with integrated R&D and customer operations organizations. He has redefined managerial roles and responsibilities, changed the way managers are selected and compensated, and renewed the company's senior management ranks. And he has articulated the new values and behaviors Xerox managers will need to thrive in a more competitive and fast-changing business environment.     

The Harris-Todaro model and economies of scale

The authors attempt to reanalyze the Harris-Todaro migration model in the presence of economies of scale in the manufacturing sector, focusing on economies of scale that are external to a given firm but internal to the industry.     

保持党员先进性要从自身做起

党员的先进性,需要结合时代的发展和社会的进步,联系当前改革开放和中国特色社会主义事业的新形势,联系加强党的执政能力建设和全面推进党的建设新的伟大工程的新要求,深入研究其利学内涵、时代特征、衡量标准和要求。本文加强每个党员对共产党员先进性的理解、保持先进性要从增强党员意识和做起共产党员要作表率作用等三个方面进行党员先进性的研究。     

“企业惯例”:把无形的文化变得触手可及

对商业人士来说,从企业惯例中得到的主要益处就是它是有形的。在一定环境下,它们可以灵活地和其它重要的因素,如思维模式、不同的期望值共同起作用