具有重要意义的亚洲政党盛会--第三届亚洲政党国际会议述评

金秋的北京,气候宜人,在明媚清爽的美好环境中,迎来了第三届亚洲政党国际会议的隆重召开.应会议东道主中国共产党的邀请,来自于34国80个政党的300多名代表从地域广阔的亚洲等地区汇集中国北京.9月3日,第三届亚洲政党国际会议拉开帷幕,中共中央政治局委员、书记处书记、会议组委会主任刘云山主持开幕式,中共中央政治局常委、国家副主席、会议组委会名誉主任曾庆红发表题为"扩大亚洲政党交流促进地区共同发展"的发言.当晚,中共中央总书记、国家主席胡锦涛在人民大会堂会见各国政党代表团,并在欢迎宴会上致词.会议期间,各国政党代表围绕着"交流、合作、发展"的主题各抒己见.     

亚洲政党合作的一次盛会

9月3日至5日,由中国共产党主办的第三届亚洲政党国际会议在北京召开.这是中国共产党历史上首次主办的国际性政党会议.有30多个国家的80多个政党派代表与会,这些代表中包括一些国家的领导人和政府、议会的领导人,他们也是政党的领袖.我们党和国家的领导人出席了会议.     

拓展政党交往渠道深化亚洲区域合作--第二届亚洲政党国际会议述评

2002年11月22日至24日, 第二届亚洲政党国际会议在泰国首都曼谷召开。来自亚洲太平洋地区26个国家76个不同政党或政治组织代表,各国政府驻泰国使节及世界银行、联合国开发计划署、亚洲开发银行、德国阿登纳基金会等机构特邀嘉宾等共230多人参加了会议。中国共产党代表、中共中央对外联络部副部长蔡武率团出席了会议。     

求同存异,共同发展——不断发展中的亚洲政党国际会议

2006年9月7-10日,第四届亚洲政党国际会议在韩国首都首尔召开.来自亚洲及其周边36个国家的92个政党和政治组织的300多名代表,以及来自世界各地区的11个政治组织观察员齐聚一堂,共话亚洲的发展前景,探讨"政党"这一独特的组织形态如何在国家和地区的发展进程中发挥更为重要的影响和作用.会后,全体与会代表通过了《首尔宣言--亚洲的和平与繁荣》及其附件《亚洲政党国际会议章程》.至此,代表亚洲政党求同存异、平等交流、扩大共识的亚洲政党国际会议在机制化的道路上更进一步,为亚洲地区政党增强理解互信、促进多边合作提供了更为稳定、更为广阔的大舞台.     

交流互鉴 凝聚共识:推动中欧关系新发展——第五届中欧政党高层论坛综述

正2016年5月17—18日,第五届中欧政党高层论坛在北京举行,来自欧洲23个国家的33个政党和2个地区性政党、2个欧洲议会党团的逾80位党政领导人和代表及中方相关部门负责人、专家学者近百人与会。会议期间,中共中央政治局常委、中央书记处书记刘云山会见出席论坛的欧     

发挥政党在“一带一路”建设中的引领作用——亚洲政党丝绸之路专题会议侧记

<正>"一路驼铃响到西,万匹丝绸济美眉。"大漠、驼铃、丝绸、香料……这些代表古丝绸之路繁荣风貌的印记历经沧海桑田之后,因中国国家主席习近平提出的"一带一路"倡议,正在重新以崭新的姿态进入我们的视野和生活。2015年10月14—16日,由中国共产党主办、中共中央对外联络部承办的"亚洲政党丝绸之路专题会议"在北京召开,来自30多个国家的60多个政党和政党组织以及工商界、媒体界人士约400多人与会。会议期     

发展与社会共享：让发展成果惠及民众——亚洲政党专题会议综述

2011年9月2—6日，南中共中央对外联络部主办、中共广西壮族自治区委员会协办的亚洲政党专题会议及相关活动在南宁举行。此次会议以“发展与社会共享：让发展成果惠及民众”为主题，下设“亚洲政党发展理念探索”和“推动发展成果全民共享——政党的作用”两个分议题。     

全球经济治理创新中的政党角色与作用——2016中国共产党与世界对话会侧记

正2016年10月13—15日,由中共中央对外联络部主办、重庆市委承办的"2016中国共产党与世界对话会"在重庆举行。本届对话会以"全球经济治理创新:政党的主张和作为"为主题,共有来自50个国家的72个政党、30多家知名智库的300余名中外代表与会。中共中央总书记、国家主席习近平,中共中央政治局常委、全国人大常委会委员长张德江,中共中央政治局常委、全国政协主席俞正声在北京分别会见了部     

外国政党动态

(11月16日—12月15日)11月19日,世界左派政党大会在委内瑞拉首都加拉加斯召开,来自全球52个左派政党的150名代表参加了会议。委内瑞拉总统查韦斯在会议闭幕式上提议遵循1938年成立于巴黎的第四国际的路线,成立第五国际,应对帝国主义和资本主义。     

外国政党动态（11月16日-12月15日）

11月19日，世界左派政党大会在委内瑞拉首都加拉加斯召开，来自全球52个左派政党的150名代表参加了会议。委内瑞拉总统查韦斯在会议闭幕式上提议遵循1938年成立于巴黎的第四国际的路线，成立第五国际，“应对帝国主义和资本主义”。     

非洲五国执政党如何领导国家扶贫

卢旺达、刚果(布)、多哥、几内亚、赤道几内亚等五个中西部非洲国家的执政党从实际出发,把减贫工作作为发展经济、维护社会稳定、争取民心和巩固执政地位的重要工作来抓,建立了专门的机制,采取了若干有效的做法,取得了一定成效,其做法和经验值得关注和研究.     

A Retrospective Impact Evaluation of the Tamil Nadu Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation (Pudhu Vaazhvu) Project

Community based livelihood interventions, which focus directly on increasing income and employment, have become an increasingly important component of large-scale poverty reduction programmes. We evaluate the impact of a participatory livelihoods intervention – the Tamil Nadu Empowerment and Poverty Reduction (Pudhu Vaazhvu) Project (PVP) using propensity score matching methods. The paper explores the impact of PVP on its core goals of empowering women and the rural poor, improving their economic welfare, and facilitating public action. We find significant effects of PVP on reducing the incidence of high cost debt and diversifying livelihoods. We also find evidence of women’s empowerment, and increased political participation.     

The Poverty of Statistics and the Statistics of Poverty

This paper offers a critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive view commonly presented depends on the widespread consensus that economic performance should be measured using ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP) statistics, instead of market exchange rates. Although originally conceived narrowly as a basis for comparing living standards, PPP indicators are now indiscriminately promoted as an unexceptionable standard for comparing and aggregating national income statistics. This article highlights the flaws in the PPP approach by accepting the claims made on their behalf at face value. It shows that, even on the basis of these claims, the wrong conclusions have been drawn. By comparing PPP and market exchange rate measures of inequality it shows that what really took place, at the end of the last century, was a systematic reduction in the prices of consumption goods in the Third World. PPP statistics have concealed this underlying and unsustainable trend, allowing it to be packaged as a stable reduction in poverty. Neither genuine growth, nor lasting poverty reduction was achieved over this period. The fall in the price of consumer goods masked a systematic failure to overcome the central problem of development—the high price of capital goods, which PPP statistics understate, and of intermediate goods, which they completely omit.     

Noncomparable Poverty Comparisons

Poverty estimates based on enumeration from a single point in time form the basis for most country-level analysis of poverty. Cross-country comparisons of poverty, and global counts of the poor, implicitly assume that country-level poverty headcounts are comparable. This paper illustrates that the assumption of comparability is potentially invalid when households are interviewed multiple times throughout the year, as opposed to a single-visit interview. An example from Jordan illustrates how the internationally comparable approach of handling data from repeat visits yields a poverty rate that is 26 per cent greater than the rate that is currently reported as the official estimate.     

Poverty and Survival

A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty elasticity declines over time after 1981. It is invariant to controlling for income inequality but diminished upon controlling for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends.     

Institutions and Poverty

This study utilises eight alternative measures of institutions and the instrumental variable method to examine the impacts of institutions on poverty. The estimates show that an economy with a robust system to control corruption, an effective government, and a stable political system will create the conditions to promote economic growth, minimise income distribution conflicts, and reduce poverty. Corruption, ineffective governments, and political instability will not only hurt income levels through market inefficiencies, but also escalate poverty incidence via increased income inequality. The results also imply that the quality of the regulatory system, rule of law, voice and accountability, and expropriation risk are inversely related to poverty but their effect on poverty is via average income rather than income distribution.     

Remittances and Working Poverty

Abstract

This article shows that the level and the predictability of remittances reduce working poverty in receiving economies through their effects on labour market dynamics. It takes advantage of the new cross-country dataset (ILO, KILM 7th edition) containing information on the share of individuals working for less than US$2 per day. To identify the main impacts, the article proposes a novel approach to deal with the endogeneity of remittances and migration. In addition, the results are robust to the possible error in measuring working poverty, to the potential attrition bias, and to the presence of various control variables.     

Discourses on Poverty: emerging perspectives on a caring economy

In The Real Wealth of Nations, Eisler proposes a holistic view of the economy, which would include the caring sectors—the household, unpaid community work and the environment—as an alternative to market-oriented economic models that have proven ineffective in dealing with the problems facing our local and global communities. Her inclusion of language change as part of a strategy for economic transformation implicitly recognises the socially constitutive function of discourse, a notion put forth by critical linguists. Based on these economic and linguistic perspectives, this article reports on a study that examined the social knowledge about poverty constructed through selected discourses to determine whether they communicate a narrow or holistic view of the economy. It proposes that economic planning for poverty reduction build upon the process of language change towards a caring economy as revealed by the study.