南北美洲经济发展差异研究述评

南北美洲在独立之初,彼此之间的发展水平基本相当,但是在独立后二者却走上了不同的发展道路,一个成了第一世界,另一个则成了第三世界。长期以来,关于两个美洲之间这种反差的研究形成了一个又一个理论体系,但是南美并没有在这些理论的指导下实现发展。对这些理论进行梳理,将加深我们对南美落后根源的认识,并且可以在此基础上进行新的探索。     

Issues of tourism and socioeconomic development

Tourism development in Asia and Pacific can be studied from four perspectives: the political economy of underdevelopment; the way poor people respond to the opportunities provided by tourism; the effects of tourism on the communal and ethnic conflicts which may exist in the host society; and the effects of the moral and religious attitudes towards tourism. An introduction to these themes are related to the several articles in this special issue.     

Small business and entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy: A comparison of Australia and Sweden

Dominant explanations within the existing development literature for the differences in poverty levels around the world have tended to ignore the influence of international inequality on poverty, instead focusing solely on domestic factors. In this paper, I conduct a regression analysis of the effect of inequality between countries on world poverty between 1980 and 2007, employing a new structural measure of international inequality which is created using social network analysis to calculate countries' positions in international trade networks. Countries' infant mortality rates are used to measure poverty. The results of the empirical analysis provide cross-country evidence to demonstrate that structural inequalities in the international system have a significant impact on poverty around the world. As such, the analysis demonstrates the need to move beyond focusing exclusively on domestic attributes of developing countries towards considering the broader international political economy in analysing contemporary poverty.     

金融发展、技术进步与区域经济增长——基于欠发达地区的分析

运用向量自回归模型(VAR)估计区域金融发展水平与全要素生产率之间的关系考察金融发展与区域经济增长之间的技术进步影响,并运用格兰杰因果检验对区域金融发展规模与全要素生产率增长率之间的因果关系做出检验。研究发现,1990年以来中国西北各省区的经济金融化程度均得到提高,但是金融发展对全要素生产率的影响较弱,全要素生产率对金融规模的响应程度和显著性不高,西北地区金融发展对经济增长的作用还没有得到充分的发挥。     

Jobs,education and the underdevelopment trap

The purpose of this paper is to examine the complementarity between job opportunities and the level of worker education as a cause of the underdevelopment trap. I show that if firms or workers in the labour market have to spend money or time searching for a partner, then an underdevelopment trap may occur. This underdevelopment trap occurs due to thc complementarity between the firms' decision about their entry into the market and the workers' choice of the length of her education. This paper stresses the importance of a decrease in private costs of receiving higher education and recruiting new workers.     

The impact of tourism on a dependent island: Gozo,Malta

Tourism for the 22,000 inhabitants of Gozo, Malta's underdeveloped sister island, means just over one hundred foreign residents, several hundred hotel visitors, and an annual stream of several hundred thousand day trippers from Malta. For Gozitans tourism has provided substantial earnings for a few catering and transport entrepreneurs, permanent employment for a few hundreds, and a modest income for some 1,600 women and girls producing handicraft souvenirs at home. However, the tourist connection to Gozo is controlled by Maltese, who obtain a disproportionate share of the industry's earnings. Increasingly Gozitans resent the way Maltese exploit their island, pollute it with picnic rubbish and treat them as backward. They compare their patronizating neighbours to the polite, free spending foreigners by whom they are treated with respect. Foreign appreciation of their rural environment and lifestyle has increased Gozitan self confidence, even as it has exacerbated their traditional resentment of Maltese cultural, social, and economic dominance. On balance, Gozitans from all walks of life regard tourism positively, especially its benefits to their underdeveloped economy.     

欠发达地区农村乡镇市场政府行为范式探析

我国农村乡镇市场消费结构与消费层次呈现出一系列新变化,蕴含巨大消费潜力,但目前农村乡镇市场发展乏力。结合欠发达地区农村乡镇市场现状实际,分析了影响我国农村乡镇市场低效的制约因素,基于基层政府行为视角,提出新时期拓展欠发达地区农村乡镇市场活力的对策措施。     

The need for new theoretical conceptualizations on National Systems of Innovation,based on the experience of Latin America

ABSTRACT

The peripheral condition of Latin America has changed but persists in spite of a long decade of favorable economic conditions and heterodox policies. A renewed conceptualization of underdevelopment and of Innovation Systems is needed. Here it is connected with Sustainable Human Development, with the dynamics of power and with the transformative change framework. The ‘triangle paper’ is a main guide. Special attention is given to innovation heuristics forged in the South. If combined with advanced knowledge and high qualifications, they may contribute worldwide to the urgent transitions to less inequality and higher sustainability. Some elements for a related research agenda are sketched.     

Family,religion and economic performance: A critique of cultural determinism

Arguing that some attitudes that may constitute an obstacle to the development process are culturally funded, cultural determinism pleads that underdevelopment is essentially generated endogenously, in other words, that people in developing countries, with their beliefs and their attitudes, are the more liable for the poverty in which they live. The simplicity of these arguments has seduced a large number of scholars but what seems to be a cultural brake on economic development could be explained otherwise. This critique of cultural determinism's arguments attempts to supply an alternative version of the interaction of culture and development, from which power, class, domination and the international division of labour will not be excised. In order to simplify this study only two of the cultural features most often referred to will be brought into focus: religion and family and patterns of kinship.     

Rational underdevelopment: regional economic disparities under the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem

This paper analyzes how differences in regional development arise through technological variations and changes. Previous Ricardian-model-based considerations of this phenomenon, known as rational underdevelopment, have ignored migration, elasticities, multidimensional factors and inputs. This study thus re-examines rational underdevelopment in light of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, considering two regions, with two sectors, in two periods. The regions have different factor and technology endowments. The first region has a technology sector, and the second is a technology laggard. Once a new technology that can potentially benefit both regions is introduced, the technology-endowed region offers financial transfers to the technologically lagging region. This equalizes regional incomes but also reduces the possibility that the laggard will adopt the new technology and decrease its developmental disadvantage. We also discuss the influence of mobile factors, which reduce regional inequality. The results show that rational underdevelopment extends beyond wage subsidies to mobile factors and capital. The analysis has implications for economic policies aimed at reducing inter-regional inequality.