Lessons from the Asian Economic Crisis: A View from South Korea

Ha and Kim present a new reading of the East Asian crisis, focusing particularly on South Korea's experience. They argue that previous studies have ignored the political environment that paved the way for such an event. Neoliberal economists, according to the authors, were so enamoured with the example of the 'Asian tigers' and the ideal of unregulated markets that they were blind to the many warnings of an ensuing disaster. Economic systems can thus no longer rest on such a free-market capitalist ideal where no one controls the global economy, but must instead have a secure political base. As the financial crisis has shown, such international anarchy must be checked by a new set of international institutions. While the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organisation did attempt to handle the crisis, it, along with Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), proved unable to do so. East Asia's leaders and theorists have been presented with the challenge of reforming this region's institutions and political orders in order to avoid another crisis, complete with all its social and political ramifications.     

进一步完善消费税制的设想

消费税作为一种古老的税种，最早产生于古罗马帝国时期。发展至今，已成为世界各国普遍征收的税种，目前已被120多个国家或地区所征收，而且还有上升的趋势。尽管我国现行消费税制是按照贯彻落实科学发展观、建设环保、节约型社会和构建和谐社会的要求进行的，特点十分突出，运行状况良好，但也存在着若干不容忽视的问题，需要从增强税法效力、改革征税范围、调整消费税率、改变征收环节、革新计税方式等方面进一步加以完善。     

走向城乡环境正义——以法制变革为视角

城市环境趋向好转,农村环境不断恶化这种二元趋势的凸现,提出了我国的城乡环境不正义问题。城乡环境不正义问题的出现,不仅与我国城市中心主义环境法制有关,更与我国农民实质自由严重匮缺相联系。走向城乡环境正义,不仅要消解我国环境法制中的城市中心主义,更要实现城乡居民在政治、经济与社会权利上的平等,并对农民权利实现的保障机制作出制度安排。     

“校政企行”职教联盟的构建及运行机制研究[1]

本文以北京政法职业学院安全保卫专业群为例,通过构建“校政企行”安保职教联盟的实际过程,分层建模,突出机制体制建设的完整性和可操作性,形成较为完整的职教联盟的概念与内涵、模型建构和运行机制,为推进高职管理制度创新、提高办学效益、构建以职教联盟为主导的相关行业的职业教育体系提供方案与对策。     

泰罗管理思想对NPM管理主义取向的影响

NPM被认为是西方公共行政非常可能的新范式,其理论内核是新制度经济学和管理主义。作为管理学重要源头的泰罗管理思想对NPM管理主义取向产生了重大的影响。     

学习邓小平"依靠"论的几点认识

邓小平同志的“依靠论”客观上反映了我国工人运动和工会工作的实际,在理论上涵盖了我国工人阶级和工会理论的主要内容,具有内在的逻辑联系,处处闪烁着辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义思想的光辉,是我们做好新时期工会工作的重要指针。     

真知与偏见：亨廷顿眼中的台湾民主

在《第三波——20世纪后期民主化浪潮》一书中,亨廷顿论及台湾的民主化进程,提出了民主化的基本含义、诱因、过程、特征和前景。亨廷顿对台湾民主的分析充满着真知灼见,其预测也为后来的台湾政治民主实践所证实。但是,必须指出的是,亨廷顿从西方的价值体系出发来对全球的民主化进程进行分析,不可避免地带有一定的偏见性。     

正确把握和处理法制宣传教育工作十个方面的关系

今年是“五五”法制宣传教育启动年。把科学发展观贯彻落实到“五五”规划及实施中去,积极推进和谐社会建设,既是对法制宣传教育工作最好的总结,也是有效实施新的五年法制宣传教育工作之必须。在“五五”法制宣传教育工作中,要认真、全面贯彻落实十六届四、五中全会精神,坚持以科学发展观为统领,坚持和实施依法治国方略,正确把握和处理好十个方面的关系,创新体制机制和工作方法,努力开创法制宣传教育工作新局面。一、坚持落实科学发展观与把握自身工作规律的关系发展观是对社会发展一般进程的客观规律的认识和把握,正确的发展观是对社会发展…     

国外老年服务一瞥

联合国秘书长安南说过:"我们目前所生活的时代,人们赋予它各种各样的名称……今天,请允许我再增加一个名称,即:长寿时代."在这样一个长寿的时代里,人生70已不再是古来稀.为更好地应对老龄化挑战,增强老龄化社会的关注意识,推动个人晚年生活的成功,现代化社会赋予了老年人以更多的生活选择,各类养老机构的出现代表着养老社会化的趋势.近年来,国外一些地区为了提高老年人的生活质量,使他们愉快地安度晚年,开办了各种有趣的老年服务项目.在此,我们作以简单介绍.     

Application of HLA-DRB1 genotyping by oligonucleotide micro-array technology in forensic medicine

The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system is known to be the most complex polymorphic system in the human genome. Among all of the HLA loci, HLA-DRB1 has the second largest number of alleles. The purpose of this study is to develop an oligonucleotide micro-array based HLA-DRB1 typing system for use in forensic identification, anthropology, tissue transplantation, and other genetic research fields. The system was developed by analyzing the HLA-DRB1 (DRB1) genotypes in 1198 unrelated healthy Chinese Han individuals originating from various parts of China and residing in Shanghai, China. METHOD: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) coupled with the oligonucleotide micro-array technology was used to detect and type HLA-DRB1 alleles of the sample individuals. The reliability, sensitivity, consistency and specificity were evaluated for use in forensic identification. Furthermore, a meta-analysis was carried out by comparing the allele frequencies of the HLA-DRB1 locus with those of other Chinese Han groups, Chinese minorities and other ethnic populations. RESULTS: All the DNA samples yielded a 273 bp amplification product, with no other amplification products in this length range. The minimum quantity of DNA detected by this method is 15 ng in a PCR reaction system of 25 microl. The population studied appeared to be not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Observed heterozygosity (Ho), expected heterozygosity (He), expected probability of exclusion (PE), polymorphic information content (PIC), and discrimination power (DP) of the HLA-DRB1 locus from the Shanghai Han ethnic group were evaluated to be 0.8022, 0.8870, 0.7741, 0.8771, 0.9750, respectively. A total of 25 HLA-DRB1 alleles were identified. HLA-DRB1*09XX, *04XX, *12XX and *15XX were the most frequent DRB1 alleles, which were observed in 58.76% of the sample. One hundred and sixteen genotypes were found. The five most frequent genotypes were: *04XX/*04XX (0.0626), *09XX/*09XX (0.0593), *04XX/*09XX (0.0551), *09XX/*15XX (0.0384) and *08XX/*12XX (0.0351). The meta-analysis showed that there were uniquely distributed features of DRB1 alleles among various ethnic populations and among the studied population groups from various regions with the same ethnic origin. CONCLUSIONS: An HLA-DRB1 genotyping system has been developed and established based on the oligonucleotide micro-array technology. The HLA-DRB1 typing of the Han population in Shanghai has revealed a relatively high heterogeneity. Information obtained in this study will be useful for medical and forensic applications as well as in anthropology research. Large-scale micro-array detection is highly accurate and reliable for DNA-based HLA-DRB1 genotyping. These results suggest that HLA-DRB1 DNA polymorphisms and the database of the Shanghai Han group have useful applications in processing forensic casework (as personal identification, paternity test), tracing population migration and genetic diagnosis.