Rubber plantations in the Northwest: rethinking the concept of land grabs in Vietnam

At first glance, rubber plantations in the Northwest of Vietnam do not appear so different from ‘large-scale land acquisition’, which is quite common in the Global South. However, when we closely examine how many processes in plantations work, we can see that there are many different processes at work besides those that take place in other countries where transnational or domestic corporations purchase or lease land for growing food, fibre or fuel crops. Rubber plantations have been strongly supported by the government and promoted as a way to industrialize and modernize the uplands, while claiming to narrow the economic gap between the uplands and lowlands. Drawing on fieldwork in two villages in Son La, and on a review of policy papers and documents, this paper identifies the political mechanisms and policies that have emerged as critical factors enabling the dispossession of land for the development of a market economy with a socialist orientation in Vietnam. The paper seeks to understand how institutional control over land and over the discussion of political subjects produces control. It argues that land grabs for rubber plantations in Northwest Vietnam are moves to strengthen state sovereignty. This land seizure has indeed created a new way of land governance that hitherto did not exist in Vietnam.     

代际差异视角下平台型灵活就业者的就业选择研究

灵活就业作为一种新兴的就业形式吸引了各个年龄的劳动者,同时随着"80后"和"90后"新生代劳动者进入劳动力市场,代际差异以及带来的管理问题成为了重要的研究领域。利用微工网兼职平台灵活就业人员抽样调查数据资料,分析了代际差异对劳动者就业选择的影响。分析结果显示:代效应和年龄效应对于灵活就业劳动者的就业选择有着显著影响。"90后"的灵活就业劳动者更关注灵活就业中的时间自由与个人的发展;"80后"和"70后"的灵活就业则更加关注工作本身的回报,同时更愿意继续从事灵活就业工作。     

Theorising state–narco relations in Bolivia’s nascent democracy (1982–1993): governance,order and political transition

Conventional policy and academic discourses have generally held illicit drug economies in Latin America to be synergistic with violence and instability. The case of post-transition Bolivia (1982–1993) confounds such assumptions. Applying a political economy approach, this article moves beyond mainstream analyses to examine how the Bolivian drug trade became interwoven with informal forms of governance, order and political transition. I argue that state–narco networks – a hangover from Bolivia’s authoritarian era – played an important role in these complex processes. In tracing the evolution of these interactions, the article advances a more nuanced theorisation of the relationship between the state and the drug trade in an understudied case.     

Contested landscapes: the global political economy of climate-smart agriculture

Analysing key initiatives in the area of climate-smart agriculture and the politics which surround them, this paper identifies the dominant discourses shaping the debate through a discussion of discursive sites of power and by mapping the emerging ‘regime complex’ of institutional power that operates at the interface of the climate and agrifood system. This is connected to forms of material power that derive from control over production, finance and technology in the neoliberal food regime by transnational capital. Such an analysis has important implications for which solutions are promoted as part of climate-smart agriculture and which actors are likely to benefit from the flows of technology, finance and institutional support that are mobilised in the struggle to define a viable global agrifood system in a warming world.     

俄罗斯2000年的经济与未来的发展战略

2000年俄罗斯经济出现了转轨以来最好的发展局面,有的专家认为俄罗斯经济已进入恢复发展时期,并且预测未来10年俄罗斯经济年均增长速度将保持在5%以上。认真分析俄罗斯经济发展的动因,可以看出俄罗斯经济中依然存在着潜在的危机因素。俄罗斯2000年以后经济的持续发展不仅取决于国际和国内经济环境,更重要的还取决于未来的发展战略是否正确。     

经济全球化背景下西方意识形态的渗透

经济全球化在打破传统的经济壁垒的同时 ,也在一定程度上打破精神、文化上的壁垒。西方发达资本主义国家采用各种手段和方式对社会主义国家进行意识形态的渗透。对此 ,我们要有清醒的认识 ,保持高度的警惕。本文对经济全球化背景下西方意识形态渗透的表现、特点及我们应当采取的对策进行了深入的阐述     

对两种资本理论范式的比较分析

马克思资本理论体系与西方资本理论体系 ,在立场、方法和研究问题的层面上是不同的。当前 ,对社会主义市场经济资本理论的研究 ,应坚持马克思历史唯物主义的方法 ,并在这一方法指导下借鉴与吸收西方资本理论的合理因素     

新加坡网络内容管理的经验及启示

新加坡作为世界网络互联程度最高的国家之一,在网络内容管理方面采取“三管齐下”的方针,一是实施轻触式管理制度,二是鼓励行业自律,三是加强公众教育,提高网络安全意识。近年来,随着网络应用的日益广泛,新加坡出台了《分类许可证制度》、《互联网操作规则》和《垃圾邮件控制法案》等政策法规以完善其网络管理。新加坡网络内容管理既实行严格的法律制度,也实行价值观宣传等柔性管理政策。新加坡相关政策的制定不仅符合其本国历史文化及发展实践,还随着网络的广泛应用以及政府的重视而日益完善,其成功经验值得学习和借鉴。     

西部民族地区中观经济信息化间接绩效测评

当今时代,信息技术、信息资源在经济社会各个领域的高度渗透性,使得信息化成为推进经济社会快速发展的核心动力。信息化绩效的测评理应科学、完整地反映信息化在经济社会的宏观、中观、微观不同层次以及各层次中的直接、间接功能发挥的状况,做到宏观、中观、微观绩效评估,直接、间接绩效评估的有机结合。在此,我们着重就我国西部民族地区中观经济信息化间接绩效水平进行测评与比较研究。     

中共第四代领导集体对社会主义市场经济理论的进一步发展

十六大以后,特别是十六届三中全会以后,胡锦涛多次重申社会主义市场经济体制的改革方向,对逐步完善新生的经济体制提出了一系列有创见的观点,为社会主义市场经济理论的进一步丰富和发展作出了伟大贡献。