Towards community‐based monitoring in Manitoba's hog industry

Abstract: Rapid changes in the hog industry in Manitoba have resulted in a gap in the province's resource and environmental policy regime. Concerns about potential, uncertain environmental impacts and an outdated regulatory framework led to a moratorium on new hog industry operations and a provincial hearing. Based on extensive literature, documentary and legislative reviews, this article explores the role of monitoring, and the potential for community‐based monitoring specifically, to address these policy issues. Given the non‐point nature of the pollution in question, the social and economic conditions in southern Manitoba and the strengths of community‐based monitoring initiatives, this approach is a promising solution. Furthermore, the existing legal framework provides an existing grounding through which the program could be vested with authority. Sommaire: Des changements rapides dans l'industrie porcine au Manitoba ont entraîné un fossé entre la politique des ressources et celle de l'environnement de la province. Les inquiétudes au sujet d'éventuelles conséquences environnementales et d'un cadre de réglementation dépassé ont conduit à un moratoire sur les nouvelles opérations dans l'industrie porcine et à une audience provinciale. En s'appuyant sur une importante documentation et sur des études documentaires et législatives, cet article approfondit le rôle de la surveillance, et plus particulièrement le rôle possible de la surveillance communautaire, pour s'attaquer à ces questions de politiques. Étant donné la nature non ponctuelle de la pollution en question, les conditions sociales et économiques dans le sud du Manitoba et la force des initiatives communautaires, cette approche est une solution prometteuse. En outre, le cadre juridique actuel fournit une base existante qui permettrait au programme d'être investi d'une certaine autorité.     

REGULATORY POLICY ANALYSIS: WORKING IN A QUAGMIRE

The authors review five "definitions-in-use" that characterize regulatory policymaking and policy analysis. They survey these contradictory meanings and argue that the common use of all five has adversely affected efforts to reform and study government regulation.     

Dual ‘prices’ in plan and market

(JEL classification: 020) The solution to the dual programming problem is traditionally conceived as a vector of unit values for the constraints of the primal problem, which in much economic-theoretic exposition employs dollar-denominated output (revenue; gross output) as the maximand, and in some applied literature, contribution to profit. This interpretation of the dual is unreasonable and we argue that the dual values either are the unit Premiums over market prices, for those inputs whose acquisition costs are deducted from selling price (and only for those units which are incremental to the amounts represented by the current constraints) or, for ‘common’ or ‘overhead’ capacity constraints whose costs are not deducted to calculate the maximand, the potential profit contribution per unit activity/per unit time. The latter application requires estimation of facility life and consumption rates in the first place, which is abjured in the standard microeconomic cost model. The paper reviews other uses of duality, including that of the planned/semiplanned economy and the evolution of Kantorovich's treatment.     

Factors influencing technology transfer: The case of China

Transferring and utilizing technology in developing economies is a vital issue for economic growth. Often the separation between R&D institutes and industrial concerns limits the transfer of technology. The People's Republic of China, which has conducted R&D in institutes separate from the potential user firms, has recently moved to facilitate domestic technology transfer from R&D institutes to R&D consumers. This study, based on the statistical analysis of 60 R&D institutes in the machinery sector in China, found that, while R&D intensity improves transfer of technology, funding and employee mobility hinders transfer. His special area is in science and technology policy. He had worked for the State Science and Technology Commission of China for six years before he came to the US.     

The Gx Global Governance:China Faces G20 Leadership

<正>The Enlarging Gx Leadership Since the2005G7/8summit at Gleneagles,China's leader and the leaders of the other G5 countries-China,India,Brazil,South Africa