Slow Down,Don’t Panic

Third-quarter data indicate China’s economy is still in good shape despite agloomy property market and structural problemsChina’s economy grew at 7.3 percent in the third quarter of 2014,maintaining a steady pace despite a complicated external and internal economic environment.In the first nine months,the Chinese economy expanded 7.4 percent overall.     

贵阳市生态文明城市建设大众认同度调查与分析

充分发挥公众主体作用,让全体市民自觉自愿、积极主动地参与生态文明城市建设的前提是对生态文明城市建设的理念、政策及措施的认同,大众对生态文明的城市价值认同一定意义上决定着生态文明城市建设的成败。文章通过调查问卷,了解贵阳市民对生态文明城市建设的价值认同现状,探讨提高市民认同度的对策。     

Dismantling Auto Monopoly

正Chinese car owners may finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief after years of being overcharged deng Ouya,a Chinese Canadian who works as an IT engineer in Montreal,has nurtured an enthusiasm for cars since he was still a student in his homeland."I bought my Mercedes-Benz GLK 350 at the price of 50,000Canadian dollars($45,800)when migrating to Canada,but the price for the same model assembled in China is 450,000 yuan($73,100)     

Factors Influencing Domestic and Marital Violence against Women in Ghana

Using the most recent version of the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey and employing complementary log-log models, this study examined the causes of both physical and sexual violence among married women in Ghana. Results indicate that wealth and employment status that capture feminist explanations of domestic violence were not significantly related to both physical and sexual violence. Education was however, related to physical violence among Ghanaian women. Women who thought wife beating was justified and those who reported higher levels of control by their husbands had higher odds of experiencing physical and sexual violence. Also, compared to those who had not, women who witnessed family violence in their lives were significantly more likely to have experienced physical and sexual violence.     

四川汉族青少年肘关节数字X线影像骨龄特征研究

目的观测四川地区青少年肘关节数字X影像的骨发育特征规律,建立肘关节推断年龄的回归方程。方法拍摄608例8～18岁青少年进行肘关节数字X线片,按性别及年龄分组,选取肘关节6个骨化中心作为观测指标,对发育特征进行分级、赋值。采用SPSS 15.0统计软件对各观测值进行描述性统计学分析,建立推算年龄的回归方程。结果得出男女性青少年肘关节继发骨化中心出现、闭合的年龄范围、平均年龄以及95%置信区间等数据。一元回归方程的复相关系数(R)范围:男性0.874～0.914,女性0.883～0.954;年龄估计值标准误(SE)范围:男性0.934～1.101岁,女性0.561～0.883岁;多元回归方程R值及SE值:男性为0.946、0.750岁,女性为0.964、0.500岁。所有方程均经统计学检验与诊断,具有较好的适用性。结论本文选择的肘关节指标发育特征与年龄有相关性,其中肱骨内上髁、桡骨小头及肱骨小头骨骺均呈高度显著相关,建立的回归方程可用于相关人群年龄推断,且多元回归方程准确性更高。     

Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China

Why is it that couples who have a son or whose last child is a son earn higher conditional income? To solve this curious case we tell a detective story: evidence of a phenomenon to be explained, a parade of suspects, a process of elimination from the enquiry, and then the denouement. Given the draconian family planning policy and a common perception that there is strong son preference in rural China, we postulate two main hypotheses: income-based sex selection making it more likely that richer households have sons, and an incentive for households with sons to raise their income. Tests of each hypothesis are conducted. Taken as a whole, the tests cannot reject either hypothesis but they tend to favour the incentive hypothesis; and there is evidence in support of the channels through which the incentive effect might operate. To our knowledge, this is the first study to test these hypotheses against each other in rural China and more generally in developing countries.     

A norm for a stabilizing budget policy in less developed export economies

The stabilization problem of an export economy is defined as smoothing the fluctuations in real income resulting from sharp changes in the value of exports. A stabilizing fiscal policy should be contractionary in good export years and expansionary in bad export years. A norm is developed to measure whether fiscal policy achieves this aim. The revenue impact of the budget is hypothesized to be generally stabilizing and the sample results bear out this hypothesis. However, the total fiscal impact is less clearly stabilizing, as expenditure policy may offset the revenue effect and tend to accentuate rather than smooth out fluctuations in real income.