Obesity of politicians and corruption in Ukraine in 2000–2020– Reply

We collected 469 frontal face images of Ukrainian cabinet ministers who were in office in 2000–2020. For each image, the minister's body mass index was estimated using a computer vision algorithm. The time series of median estimated body mass index of cabinet ministers co-moves over time with two existing measures of corruption – World Bank worldwide governance indicator Control of Corruption, and the discrepancy between the quantity of luxury wristwatches exported from Switzerland to Ukraine (reported by Swiss statistics) and the corresponding quantity imported by Ukraine from Switzerland (reported by Ukrainian statistics).     

增长失衡与政府责任:基于社会性支出角度的分析

There exists a kind of growth imbalance in China’s current development process, which is essentially characterized by the imbalance between the nation’s wealth and the people’s welfare. This paper points out that growth imbalance results mostly from insufficient government social spending on people’s welfare. Consequently, the government should shoulder the basic responsibility for the provision of education, health and social security, quicken the transformation of government expenditure structure and increase the share of social spending, in order to improve the people’s welfare and achieve the rebalancing of growth. The increase in social spending can also promote the accumulation of human capital, which will help the conversion of economic growth pattern and the realization of sustainable and healthy economic development. Translated from Jingji Yanjiu 经济研究 (Economic Research Journal), 2006, (10): 4–17     

Agglomeration,migration cost and intergovernmental transfers

The purpose of this article is to investigate the central government redistribution policies across local governments that affect regional agglomeration. Though full agglomeration is efficient, in many cases factor mobility is imperfect and the full agglomeration is not realized. This article analysed whether or not the central government should adjust the distribution of populations through local governments. The result is as follows: If individuals are relatively mobile, the central government can improve the aggregate income. In this case, when the private production and public sector are small, the central government should transfer from the productive regions local government to low-productive regions.     

生态文明建设要走在最前列——关于长沙实施绿色发展崛起战略的思考

强化生态文明理念是长沙发展加快转型的主要动力。强力推动绿色发展是长沙发展加快转型的主要目标。加强生态环境建设,是长沙发展加快转型的主要路径。     

政府公共投资的经济效应分析

关于政府公共投资的经济效应,学术界有颇多争论,虽然一系列研究成果发现公共资本与经济增长正相关,但也有一些学者通过研究得出了截然相反的结论。文章运用经济增长理论分析政府公共投资的经济效应,并以中国相关数据为样本进行实证检验,实证检验得出结果:公共投资与产出正相关。在此基础上,文章根据我国目前所处的经济发展阶段,运用计量经济模型,估计出我国当前政府公共投资的最优规模,即公共投资占GDP的合理比重为4.5%,公共投资占财政总支出的合理比重为22%左右。     

关于我国政府绿色采购的探究

绿色采购源于绿色思想,绿色思想是对传统的片面追求经济增长做法的反思。绿色采购作为一种新的购买理念,因其具有突出的外部正效益特点,成为环保的有效手段。政府采购作为现代政府治理工具之一,也应向着与环境更友好、更和谐的方向发展。政府绿色采购因其具有规模大和政府示范的特点,成为引导和推动可持续发展的重要手段。     

会计信息失真的危害及治理办法

会计信息反映企业的经营状况帮助管理者做出正确的经济决策。目前出现的会计信息失真现象扰乱了市场经济秩序,诱发经济犯罪,损害了使用者的要权益。应加强对会计信息失真的治理以建立良好的社会经济秩序。     

政府审计、内部控制与企业创新

利用手工收集的政府审计公告数据,以2013—2017年的国有上市公司为样本,采用PSM+DID方法检验政府审计对国有上市公司创新活动的影响,并进一步根据内部控制质量和是否存在内部控制缺陷对样本进行分组检验两者之间的关系。研究结果表明：政府审计显著增加了国有上市公司的创新投入和创新产出;在内部控制质量高和不存在内部控制缺陷的样本企业中,政府审计对企业创新活动的促进作用更加显著。     

建筑业反腐倡廉的思考与对策

建筑业涉及面广、专业性强、资金量大、关系复杂,是最容易滋生腐败的行业之一。近年来,党和政府将建筑业列为治理经济腐败问题的重点领域,并对其进行了多次大规模专项治理活动。文章认为,建筑业应该尽快建立完善的规章制度和监督机制,从根本上杜绝腐败现象的滋生及蔓延,保证社会主义现代化建设健康发展。     

推进地勘单位廉政文化建设须实施“五要五不要”

文章从反腐倡廉的大局出发,阐述了地勘单位推进廉政文化建设的思路和措施。