Reforming the Direct–Indirect Tax Mix

This paper provides a new framework for evaluating the welfare effects of commodity tax reforms. It is shown that tax reforms are welfare improving if and only if they satisfy the following intuitive property: on average, consumer prices fall for commodities with high marginal excess burdens. The rule is then applied to analyze a shift from differentiated commodity taxation to direct flat-rate taxation of labour income. The welfare impact of such reforms can be decomposed into two effects: (i) the increase in welfare associated with substitution among taxed commodities, and (ii) the loss in welfare associated with substitution between commodities and leisure. On balance, a shift towards direct taxation is desirable when inter-commodity substitution effects are large relative to commodity–leisure substitution effects. The analysis allows us to reconcile the apparently conflicting results of the tax reform and optimal taxation literatures.     

领导干部在农业结构调整中应强化十种意识

新阶段的农业结构调整,必须适应变化了的新形势.为此,要进一步深化对农业结构调整的认识,牢固树立大农业意识、市场意识、规则意识、品牌意识、科技意识、信息意识、产业意识、工业意识、城镇意识和服务意识.     

国企改革若干回顾和思考

经过30年的改革开放,我国国有企业改革任务基本实现,这是我国基本上平稳地实现由计划经济体制向社会主义市场体制转变的主要标志。在肯定改革成就、坚持改革方向的同时,也要认真总结经验教训,特别要正确处理改革和稳定的关系、正确认识改革和发展的关系,解决好体制和管理问题。     

Domestic Support and Border Measures for Processed Horticultural Products

In horticultural markets, trade barriers often apply to the processed products whereas domestic support applies to farm-produced raw commodities. Here we assess the effects of such trade barriers and domestic support by simulating the effects of policy reform on global processing tomato markets, which are faced with modest processed product tariffs and high domestic support in the European Union (EU). Both protection and EU subsidy drive down world welfare, but we find that reducing import tariffs for tomato products would yield greater effects on markets and larger welfare impacts outside Europe than would reductions in EU domestic support.     

基于引力模型的中美农产品贸易边境效应研究

针对中美两国在农产品贸易上的新变化,应用引力模型的派生模型——边境效应引力模型对中美两国农产品贸易的流量和流向进行理论和实证研究。首先介绍了边境效应引力模型基本模型的推导过程,并引入了调整模型。然后采用1987至2005年其中5年的截面数据进行计算,结果发现:中美农产品贸易的边境效应显著存在,且呈逐年下降趋势;两国之间的农产品贸易边境效应存在流向和区域上的差异;距离的平方并不影响模型的可靠性。     

试析大学生的综合素质培养

本文介绍了提高大学生综合素质的重要性和迫切性 ,通过分析当今教育存在的某些问题 ,提出就提高学生综合素质所应采取的改革的几点建议。     

Stop and Go Agricultural Policies with a Land Market

This article studies the design of farm policy in the presence of asymmetric information about farmers' productivity, a government objective to insure farmers a minimum "parity" income, an endogenous land rent, and diminishing returns on alternative (nonprogram crop) land uses. In this setting, acreage set asides are never part of an optimal farm policy, although compensated acreage limits are. When there are new farmer entrants who cannot be excluded from farm programs, optimal policy takes the form of a pure voluntary acreage limitation—or "buyout"—program in which high-cost producers participate and low-cost producers do not.     

迎接知识经济时代 实现财务管理创新

随着知识经济的日益发展,尤其是我国改企建制工作的广泛推行和进一步深化,勘察设计企业为了能更好地应对市场竞争的挑战,其日常运作的各项工作就需要有所改进。而作为企业管理的核心,财务管理则需要密切配合企业改制工作的整体部署,进行相应的创新。本文结合勘察设计企业的实际情况,谈谈实现财务管理创新的几点思路。     

浅谈大学物理实验教学内容的改革

针对大学物理实验教学改革的背景，介绍了外延式与内涵式更新、渐进式与突进式更新的策略，同时注重物理实验时代性与先进性，改革实验教学内容，以利于大学物理实验教学，激发学生的学习积极性，培养学生的创新能力。     

关于中国服装教育若干问题的思考

古老而先进的服装文明建设遭遇了浮躁而滞后的服装教育 ;博大精深的服装文化被简单而肤浅地诠释了。功利主义将服装教育引入了重重误区 ,服装教育的管理体制、院校布局、教育理念、层次划分、专业设置等 ,亟待规范。为此 ,本文提出了中国服装教育标本兼治的思路和一些对策。