金融地理学视角下中国农村金融省际差异研究

从金融总量、金融结构、金融效率和金融环境四个方面构建农村金融综合发展水平评价指标体系,并基于2006～2010年5年实际平均数据,从金融地理学角度运用因子分析法和模糊曲线法考察环境因子、文化因子、设施因子、科技因子、经济因子等金融地理因素对各省(区)农村金融综合发展水平的贡献程度。研究结果表明:我国各省农村金融综合发展水平存在明显差异,各影响因子中科技因子影响程度最大,经济、文化、基础设施、开放、劳动因子影响次之,聚集因子影响程度较小。因此,缩小农村金融省际差异,必须统筹各金融地理因素,尤其应注重农村科技、经济和文化对金融的提升作用。     

贯彻落实党的民族政策加快民族地区发展

党的十八大报告关于：＂全面正确贯彻落实党的民族政策,坚持和完善民族区域自治制度。＂的论述,指明了在新的形势下继续坚持和完善民族区域自治这一基本政治制度是不变的原则,这对于当前乃至未来解决和处理中国民族问题具有重要的理论意义和实践意义。初级阶段的理论是坚持发展和完善党的民族政策的基本依据,现阶段,社会主义初级阶段的基本国情没有变,少数民族和民族地区欠发达的现实也没有变,民族区域自治政策只能坚持不能动摇。     

Regional Cooperation Toward Green Asia: Trade in Low Carbon Goods

Governments in the Asian region have been taking actions in the form of voluntary targets and policy commitments to improve the production and use of low carbon goods (LCG). However, these commitments are often challenged by many constraints, such as technological barriers and financial deficiencies. Within this context, the main objective of this study is to measure the potential of major emerging Asian economies for exports in LCG under the grand regional coalition, partial regional coalition, and standalone scenarios. The analysis indicates that emerging Asian economies will increase their export potential in LCG more under the grand coalition scenario.     

The Impact of Trade Openness on Regional Inequality: The Cases of India and Brazil

Regional inequalities are large in India and Brazil and represent a development challenge. This article aims to determine whether regional inequalities are linked to a country's trade openness. An annual indicator of regional inequalities is constructed for India for the period 1980–2004 and for Brazil from 1985–2004. Results from time series regressions show that Brazil's trade openness contributes to a reduction in regional inequalities. The opposite result is found for India. India's trade openness is an important factor aggravating income inequality among Indian states. In both countries, inflows of foreign direct investment are found to increase regional inequalities.     

You’re dead to me,but should you be? Using a retail database to classify American malls by occupancy and sales and an extended analysis of dead and dying malls

ABSTRACT

The study uses a shopping center database to classify malls by occupancy and sales. A factor analysis is conducted and reduces the large number of variables to a smaller number of mall constructs. The constructs are used to predict mall group membership by occupancy and sales. The results indicate that population and income are important variables towards mall occupancy and sales. An analysis of dead malls follows in order to produce more novel information for the growing interest in dead and dying malls. It is found through a second discriminant analysis that the prototypical characteristics of dead malls include; smaller in size, less population and lower income market areas. There were varying effects of renovation dates, competition and market age. Overall, the study benefited from examining dead malls more closely and provides more groundwork for future dead mall studies.     

新时期新疆与中亚五国区域经济合作问题探究

在新的历史时期,新疆已成为我国对中亚国家开展区域经济合作的窗口,发展与中亚国家的区域经济合作对推动新疆的跨越式发展具有重要作用。新疆与中亚国家地缘相连,区位优势明显,在资源合作领域占据重要地位,交通枢纽的战略地位和龙头作用愈加明显,与中亚国家的区域经济合作取得显著成效,是营造中国良好安全周边环境的战略基地。同时,双方经济合作也面临社会稳定问题仍比较突出,高素质、复合型人才极度匮乏,民族文化心理因素产生一定阻碍,信息渠道不畅,创新能力不足等问题。提出加快发展兵地融合经济,联合开发中亚市场,加强新疆外贸人才的引进与培养,坚持科学发展观,创新发展理念等对策建议。     

A pragmatic service typology: capturing the distinctive dynamics of services in time and space

Many service classifications have provided helpful yet partial perspectives on the heterogeneity of services. This paper reconciles and integrates different earlier classifications into a new holistic typology of the service economy which is based on detailed statistical service sectors. Moreover, the paper assesses the empirical value of this taxonomy to capture the diversity of services development in time and space. A regional analysis of employment data in Germany provides evidence that knowledge intensive as well as business services follow very different sectoral and spatial dynamics than operational and consumer services. This typology yields differential insights in longitudinal and comparative regional analysis of the service economy.     

Off-shoring in the contact centre industry and employment in the North West of England

The significance of contact centre employment has recently been the subject of renewed debate in regional policy-making of late, driven by media comment on the threat of off-shoring. Despite these concerns, empirical research on the scale of such activities in regions is limited. This article reviews available data on contact centre employment in the sub-regions of North West England. The evidence appears to show continued growth in the number of contact centres and employment totals. The concluding section reconsiders the significance of contact centres for Regional Economic Strategies that focus on developing high value-added activities.     

区域经济可持续发展系统的控制机制研究

可持续发展是当前社会发展的主题,是社会、经济、环境和资源协调发展的结果.完善区域经济可持续发展控制机制的对策建议：强化反馈控制的意识;严格实施控制机制;建立完善的信息系统.     

基于区域合作的聊城旅游业发展对策研究

区域旅游经济合作是一个世界范围内的旅游业发展大趋势。本文主要是在区域经济合作理论的指导下,分析了聊城市旅游业的发展现状及发展优势,在其资源禀赋、市场结构、交通优势的基础上,提出了融入周边城市旅游大发展格局的思路及战略,旨在通过旅游业区域合作使得聊城市的旅游业发展更上一个台阶。