The regional politics of scale: revisiting the functional aspects of the labour market dualism

This article seeks to revisit Arthur Lewis’s theory of labour market dualism, while focusing on human resource development in the form of labour productivity, to explain its usefulness in the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) contemporary policy discourses around non-economic integration in an era that is now classified as the Caribbean Educational Policy Space. The focus is on how key assumptions around labour productivity, and the lessons that can be deduced from analysing historical and contemporary policy initiatives, present plausible applicability to an expanding Caribbean single market and the proposed creation of the Caribbean single economy. In focusing on the discursive elements of labour productivity, it is contextualized that the free movement of skilled labour within CARICOM illustrates labour market dualism.     

Perception of risks associated with economic sanctions: the case of Russian manufacturing

This paper is focused on assessing the risk factors for Russian manufacturing firms posed by sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU, US, and other countries in 2014. While there is an extensive literature assessing the successes and failures of international sanctions on the economies of both those imposing and targeted by sanctions on a macroeconomic level, we are more interested in trying to understand the corporate response – i.e. which firms evaluate the introduction and increasing scale of economic sanctions as a threat to their corporate strategy, and their possible reactions aimed at adjusting to a changing environment due to the geopolitical shock. Our research, based on a recent survey of manufacturing companies, provides evidence that over the last decade Russian manufacturing firms have become much more integrated into the global economy than is commonly assumed, through foreign direct investment, foreign trade (including imports of both technological equipment and raw materials and components), international partnerships, and by extensively supplying foreign companies that operate in Russia. Considering the self-selection effect of the top-performing firms in terms of foreign trade, we can state that sanctions could prove most harmful not only for the targeted firms, but for the entire population of better-performing and globalized firms involved in foreign trade with the EU and Ukraine. Thus, the impact of the sanctions on the prospects of the Russian manufacturing sector may be very strong over the medium-to-long term.     

韩国与日本企业在华投资趋势分析

本文从投资规模、目的、领域和区域分布等方面分析韩国企业与日本企业对华直接投资的变迁过程及其特点。近年来，韩El企业在对华投资目的上越来越倾向于开拓中国市场。对华投资的行业类别上，虽然投资产业集中在制造业的格局没有改变，但是在批发零售业、金融业等非制造业领域也呈现增长趋势。今后，在强化技术开发和零部件采购本地化的基础上，开发建立适应中国消费市场变化的产品与销售体制，积极拓展内陆地区以及二、三级城市市场将是韩日企业需要解决的重要课题。     

地方政府控股下的地方银行制度变迁逻辑与风险防范

地方政府投资参股银行机构,既是一种模糊产权形式,也是一种过渡产权形式。允许地方政府的资本进入银行业,本意是体现责、权、利相匹配的原则。然而,这可能导致地方银行机构成为地方政府的"提款机",信贷扩张增大,政府融资平台贷款持续增加,信贷集中度会更高,地区贫富差距会扩大,弱势群体的贷款难问题会加剧等。因此,作为过渡性产权形式,地方政府股权的退出将是一种必然结果,虽然短期内难以实现,但是这是解决这一问题的必然出路,因而必须壮大民营银行产权并使之成为第一行动集团。只有这样,地方政府才可能逐步退出银行的产权控制领域并让民营银行成为间接融资渠道的主体,实现银行产权的更替,最终分散和化解金融风险。     

小额诉讼制度建构的理性思考

小额诉讼程序是以当事人视角为出发点,大量吸收和处理日常性小额纠纷的制度装置。小额诉讼是一种功能和实效有限的程序机制,但是在民事诉讼法修改过程中,其制度功能被过分夸大和扭曲,这种法院本位主义的问题解决路径应该得到矫正。调解程序和速裁程序无法真正替代小额诉讼程序制度功能的发挥,独立的小额诉讼程序应该得到立法的确认,小额诉讼的适用范围和救济机制是两个最重要的问题。     

台湾“老歌仔戏”：“小戏”向“大戏”的过渡形态

宜兰“老歌仔戏”源自闽南传入台湾的街头“小戏”,是歌仔戏最为初级、原始的舞台演出阶段.相较于车鼓戏等街头“小戏”,“老歌仔戏”的演出地点已由街头走向了舞台,演出内容已由表演片段发展为演出全本戏.它的表演形态与“小戏”所差无几,虽已少量吸收大型说唱文学的情节内容,但演出仍以表演歌舞而主,因而尚不能称为严格意义上的“大戏”,而是“小戏”向“大戏”发展的特殊过渡形态.     

完善吉林省中小企业激励机制的几点建议

吉林省中小企业在不断发展壮大的过程中,企业激励机制起到了功不可没的作用。但从目前吉林省中小企业实行的激励机制来看,还存在一些问题。对自身规模不大、竞争力不强的中小企业来说,能否建立起完善、有效的激励机制将直接影响其生存和发展。本文在分析当前吉林省中小企业激励机制存在主要问题的基础上,提出了运用激励机制必须遵循的基本原则和建立完善、科学的激励机制的对策。     

中小民营企业人力资源管理外包问题与对策研究

对于中小民营企业来说，外包既可以节约人力资源成本，降低企业整体的管理成本，又可以利用外部的专业资源对内部进行专业化的管理，指导和帮助民营企业建立和完善人力资源管理体系，提高管理水平和效率，完成人力资源管理职能的转变。因此，进行人力资源管理外包是民营企业发展的优化选择，也是必由之路。目前我国关于人力资源管理外包的理论和实践都比较匮乏，尚未形成统一的认识和管理行为，因此，研究民营企业中人力资源管理外包的应用，为民营企业外包设计一个可行的模式和方案，就具有非常重要的作用和意义。     

Press content as a key to a country's alignment: The case of Ethiopia

This article examines the news content of an Ethiopian government‐run newspaper over a period of 20 years to determine how closely the present government is aligned with the Soviet Union. There are two schools of though among foreign policy scholars. Regionalists believe Ethiopia is nonaligned. They argue that since the country follows the tenants of African socialism, its international politics are shaped by indigenous factors such as nationalism and local economic and security needs, rather than by Soviet or U.S. influence. Globalists, on the other hand, believe Ethiopia belongs to the Soviet camp and is dependent on the Soviet Union. A review of a government‐run newspaper in two ten‐year periods before and after the takeover by Mengistu Haile Mariam found a dramatic shift in the nature of coverage. Under Emperor Haile Selassie before the ovethrow, the paper printed predominantly pro‐United States and anti‐Soviet news. But under Mengistu, the same paper printed vastly pro‐Soviet and anti‐United States news, and absolutely no anti‐Soviet news. These findings support the globalist view.