Building a More Prosperous Yamda

CLAD in a white fleece coat and pink woolen hat, Purbu sits on the thick carpet of her new two-storey house and sips from a bottle of juice. The small table beside her is piled up with candies and snacks, glossy Tibetan-style furniture fills the room and the windows, whose thick glass keeps out the harsh winter wind, offer a view of her spacious yard from which a yak peeps curiously into the room. Enjoying an hour of leisure, our hostess confesses that sometimes she is not sure if she is in a dream, and has to pinch her-     

Lighting up the Darkness

SABRIYE Tenberken is a household name in Lhasa,the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region where she founded a school for the blind 13 years ago. Her reputation spread to the rest of the nation in 2009,when she was elected one of the ten most inspiring people in China for that year.     

Reviving Residents’ Committees

TO urbanites on China’s mainland, residents’ committees are the closest basic social unit to families and their danwei, or work unit-traditionally a tightly knit community. The first residents’ committee in the PRC was established in Hangzhou’s Shangcheng District, Zhejiang Province, on October 23,1949.     

韩国的石油进口、实际汇率与内生经济增长

本研究建立了包括人均实际GDP、原油与成品油的实际价格和进口量以及韩元实际汇率的多变量模型,检验能源约束是否会通过内生技术进步机制影响韩国的经济增长。运用1970～2008年年度数据进行的Johansen协整关系检验发现模型中的变量存在协整关系。Granger非因果关系检验进一步显示:原油进口价格对韩国经济的短期效应为负但长期效应为正,原油进口量的短期效应不显著但长期效应为正,而成品油进口价格和进口量的效应与之完全相反,为能源冲击会在长期促进资源匮乏国家内生经济增长的假说提供了经验性证据。     

我国刑事速裁程序迈向理性的崭新课题

2014年6月全国人民代表大会常务委员会通过《关于授权最高人民法院、最高人民检察院在部分地区开展刑事案件速裁程序试点工作的决定》.立法机关首次采取“自下而上”的制度生成模式,以保证实现公平正义为前提,优化司法资源配置,节约司法成本.但两年的实践工作也暴露出适用范围狭窄、当事人程序权利保障不完善、程序运行不畅的问题.速裁程序的制度设计还应当从经验转向理性,以证据标准代之罪名标准,构建以审判为中心下的审前中心程序,建立以认罪真实性与量刑规范化的公式关系,在此基础上实行一审终审制.惟其如此,速裁程序才具有生命力与独立性.