Overcoming poverty and inequality: Rwanda's progress towards the MDGs

Despite the 1994 genocide there has been annual growth in Rwanda every year since 2000. Poverty has decreased; while the MDG target of 23.8% is unlikely to be met by 2015, the future looks hopeful. The goal of reducing hunger is measured by underweight children – already down to target – and extreme poverty – likely to hit the target. Key to success is reducing dependency on the land, but a majority of the population still depend on their farm or plot. However, hitting targets for reducing poverty is not the same thing as abolishing it, and achieving targets does not necessarily solve problems.     

Implement the Global Civilisation Initiative,Jointly Promote Human Civilisation Development

<正>President Xi Jinping s Congratulatory Letter to the Third Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations and the First World Conference of Sinologists Prevails among Attendees On July 3,Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of PRC,sent a congratulatory letter to the Third Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations and the First World Conference of Sinologists,which soon prevails among attendees.     

Joint Declaration of the International Civil Society on Working Together to Implement the Global Development Initiative

The Joint Declaration of the International Civil Society on Working Together to Implement the Global Development Initiative has witnessed warm welcome and active participation since its launching.By August 12th,2022,over 1280 NGOs,think tanks,media,business communities,international organizations,government agencies and leading personages from all sectors had signed up for the Declaration,covering 106 countries in six continents and eight major areas of the Global Development Initiative,which de...     

柬埔寨合伙企业法律制度研究

柬埔寨良好的投资前景吸引着中国大量投资资金的进入.就中方投资者而言,了解柬埔寨国内企业法律制度,对于其灵活选择投资形式和规避法律风险而言有着重要的意义.目前,柬埔寨合伙企业分为普通合伙企业和有限合伙企业.以把握柬埔寨合伙企业法律制度作为基础之一,面对多样投资渠道的投资者将能把握更多的投资契机.     

Build Consensus and Deepen Cooperation

<正>(1) Build consensus and promote the construction of East Asian Community.East Asia is one of the most economically dynamic and promising regions in the world. With strong     

中国-东盟战略伙伴关系：回顾与前瞻

本文对中国-东盟战略伙伴关系的发展进行回顾、总结与展望,并提出几点看法。     

Partnerships in transition: the case of the EU and middle-income countries (MICs)

The EU has introduced a differentiated approach to development cooperation by reducing financial support for countries graduating to middle-income status from development cooperation. Differentiation will likely be applied in additional countries in the next budget cycle; as such, the way the EU organises differentiation makes for an important pilot case. This article reviews the factors that led to the graduation of certain countries and how this matches with the EU’s aspirations to policy coherence for development. The analysis concludes that ambiguous differentiation policy horizontally led to vertical incoherencies in the ways policy objectives are conveyed to financial instruments, and how they subsequently facilitate programming.     

Lashkar-i-Taiba: Roots,Logistics, Partnerships,and the Fallacy of Subservient Proxies

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论全球治理中的大众传播效应

全球化时代的来临使全球治理问题受到高度关注。而全球性大众传播将在其中扮演一个日益重要的角色。本文在分析大众传播在全球治理中的复合性效应的基础上 ,通过对全球治理的理念层面进行解构和重塑 ,一种符合信息网络社会特性的“重叠共识”无疑将给人们带来新的启示。     

Partnerships,learning, and development: a case study from Ghana

Decades of development practice suggest the fundamental importance of improving aid-delivery systems and stakeholder competence in order to improve the well-being of poor people. However, it is questionable whether the aid system is able to change its attitudes and values through such partnerships in a way that will do this. This paper suggests that for this change to be possible, processes of individual, organisational, and inter-organisational learning have to be encouraged, in ways that do not sacrifice the knowledge obtained by aid workers in the processes of global management. The paper explores procedures of bilaterally funded community education projects in Ghana, in order to give insights into the working of partnership arrangements as a means to contribute to the alleviation of global poverty. Critical instances from the case study projects reveal the ways in which learning is facilitated, used, ignored, and hindered as the organisational relations develop.     

试论全球性议题与全球政治的新发展

在全球化大背景下,随着国际金融危机的深化,世人的眼光聚焦于全球性议题和全球政治的重大发展变化:挑战激增,议题转换.重点转移,合作共治得到强化,国家权力与作用有了某种回归,全球政治中的力量对比发生了令人瞩目的深刻变化,并迅速而深刻地改变着全球战略格局.     

Expand Friendly Cooperation and Build a Harmonious World

As early as in the beginning of the 1980's,the Chinese Association for International Understanding (CAFIU) started exchanges with the Friendrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). Since FES set up its Beijing office in 1987,fruitful cooperation has been conducted between FES and CAFIU,and other relevant parties of the Chinese side. Over the years,FES has made positive efforts and great contributions for deepening and developing understanding and friendship between the Chinese people and the German people,and for promoting the relations between the two countries and two parties,which we highly appreciate.     

如何构建朝鲜半岛和平机制

朝鲜半岛停战机制作为冷战时代的产物,已不适应半岛政治现实。2002年开始的第二次朝核危机再度引发半岛局势动荡,构建半岛和平保障机制取代旧的停战机制已经成为当务之急。本文认为,应以双边协议为基础、以六方会谈为平台、以多边合作为框架,构建半岛和平机制。     

全球公民社会与国际政治中的正义问题

随着经济全球化在社会各方面的展开,全球正义逐渐成为学术界全球范围内的话题.通过剖析思想家们对于全球正义的理论和逻辑,我们发现,对全球正义的理解必须从历史演变的社会生产和交往结构中去加以说明,全球正义是历史的正义体系.在全球化背景下,全球公民社会的发展是理解未来全球正义秩序实现的关键.因此,在全球公民社会创造的平台上,积极推进全球政治民主化,谋求实现全球正义,是当今时代的一个极其重要的历史任务.     

China＇s Maritime Frontiers and the Global System

According to the concept of the Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ) set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,the Maritime Frontierof China can be defined as extending 200 nautical miles from its coastal baseline.According to the UN principles regarding     

Global Politics and the International Power Configuration

Global politics (including global politico-economics) and the international order are vast and confusing topics that have attracted many commentators. I will try to bring some fresh meaning in my argument today and so I will first make a broad and in-depth review of recent developments in several major aspects in order to introduce some     

拉美能逃过此劫吗?——论全球金融危机对拉美国家的影响

由美国次贷危机引发的全球金融危机对国际金融体系和世界经济都产生了严重冲击,与美国经济有着密切联系的拉美国家当然难逃此劫.金融危机主要是通过金融恐慌的传染效应、出口引擎遭受打击、侨汇收入大幅下降等渠道和机制对拉美国家的经济增长产生影响的.为此,拉美国家采取诸如向金融机构注资、扩大公共投资、抑制汇率波动等措施以应对金融危机.目前,拉美国家虽然有着应对金融危机的许多有利因素,但通货膨胀的加剧和金融危机影响的滞后性使拉美经济的增长存在着很多变数.     

Conflict Management in Public–Private Partnerships: The Case of the London Underground

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become common inter‐organizational arrangements associated with “new public management.” Discussion about their effective operation has often focused on successful management methods, with less discussion about how these arrangements specifically overcome obstacles and problems. In this article, we seek to address this deficiency in the literature by analyzing the conflict management system employed within the London Underground PPP (when it was still in operation). We conclude by identifying several lessons from this case that we believe should inform the design of such systems, one of which is the role of knowledge management.     

Business and Public–Private Partnerships for Sustainability: Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility?

This article analyses public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the field of sustainable development from an international relations perspective with insights from the business and ethics literature. We argue that the role of business in these types of arrangements has not been sufficiently explored. After presenting three ways of approaching PPPs to stress the many facets of partnerships across the public–private divide, we discuss the emergence of these novel forms of governance from a demand side and contrast such a functionalist reading with the supply side. Then we look at the micro-economic incentives for corporations to engage in such endeavours. We develop arguments derived from the dominant literature to provide an analytical framework for explaining business participation. Finally, we discuss the role of PPPs in light of input and output legitimacy. We conclude by alluding to the emergence of an expectation-capacity gap and normative issues related to the global PPP architecture.