吉林省新农保试点工作全面提速

近日，由吉林省新农保试点工作领导小组副组长、吉林省人力资源和社会保障厅厅长骆德春、吉林省社保局局长蒋延辉，带领吉林省人社厅、财政厅、社保局和新农保试点办有关人员，先后赴长春市朝阳区和磐石市进行了新衣保工作的督导调研。通过召开座谈会和实地走访考察等形式，调研了试点工作进展情况，听取了试点县（区）反映的意见和建议。     

南亚地区人口增长及其原因

南亚地区包括印度共和国、巴基斯坦伊斯兰共和国、孟加拉人民共和国、斯里兰卡民主社会主义共和国、尼泊尔王国、不丹王国、马尔代夫共和国和于1975年4月14日被印度吞并为其一个邦的锡金王国等八个国家,面积四百三十多万平方公里左右,约占世界陆地总面积的百分之三。目前,南亚地区约有十亿人口,约占世界总人口的五分之一。在人口问题受到世界各国政府和人民普遍关注的今天,南亚地区的人口问题尤其引人注目,因为这不仅严     

China Revisited

It was in November 1975 that Iwas posted to the People's Re-public of China as Tanzanian Am-bassador Extraordinary and Pleni-potentiary. I served in China fornine years. During that period Ivisited many places in all the prov-inces except Tibet and Taiwan.China was coming to the end of     

The transition of migratory patterns in medium-sized cities

"The authors attempt to present some empirical findings regarding a phenomenon which they chose to call the 'transition in migratory patterns'.... The general hypothesis states that: changes in migratory patterns are due to an interaction between those economic, political and social processes which affect the distribution of the population; and that this interaction is also highly influenced by macroeconomic politics--an arena where technology plays a dominant role." Data are for Guadalajara and the state of Jalisco in Mexico. (SUMMARY IN ENG)     

Comprehensively Advance Reform of the Urban Housing System Opinion. [Summary 1991

On 31 December 1991, the Chinese State Council Housing System Reform Leading Group announced this Opinion, setting out targets, principles, and policies for the reform of the system of provisional housing in urban areas. Section 1 of the Opinion provides that the long-term goal of reform is to convert the distribution of housing from a system based on welfare allocation to one based on commodity exchange either by purchase or rental. Section 2 sets the following targets for reform: a) within the period of the Eighth Five-Year Plan, the system will be converted from one of low rent to one in which the calculation of rent will be based on cost of upkeep, administration costs, and depreciation; b) by 2000, the calculation of rent will be based on the above factors, as well as interest on investment and property taxes; and c) in the long term, the calculation of rent will be based on all of the above factors, as well as land rent, insurance premiums, and profit. Section 4 deals with policies for managing various problems such as rent increases and subsidies, sales of housing, financing for housing, the system of investment in and construction of housing, and administration of housing. This Section provides that a three-level housing investment fund based on municipalities, work units, and individuals will be established.