Extreme poverty alleviation through community-based entrepreneurship: PRODECO in Paraguay

Community-based entrepreneurship projects have been advocated as a potential approach to alleviate extreme poverty as they provide opportunities for income generation and capacity enhancement. This practical note provides an overview of the PRODECO project undertaken jointly by the Paraguayan government and the World Bank (1999–2008) in three southern departments of Paraguay (Itapúa, Misiones, and Ñeembucú). It describes and analyses the context, scope, operations, and results of this project, and identifies five main lessons related to frequent challenges faced by this approach; on size, access to skills, distance from government agencies, pace, and technology.     

Considering the ecohealth approach: Shaping Haitian women's participation in urban agricultural projects

This paper examines the social and gender politics of a women's urban garden project supported by the International Organisation of Migration, in Cap Haitien, Haiti. My study highlights how the development process created an unmonitored symbolic space where society's normalised gender processes reproduced broader social inequalities, which, in turn, prevented the project from meeting the women's practical and strategic goals. Then, I discuss how the ecohealth approach, as an alternative design framework, could make symbolic space visible to be critically engaged and analysed by participants, to account for gender process, and create an emancipatory activity.     

Fighting terrorism in Africa by proxy: the USA and the European Union in Somalia and Mali

The French intervention in Mali in early 2013 emphasizes that the decision-makers in Paris, Brussels, and Washington considered the establishment of the radical Islamist regime in Northern Mali a threat to their security interests. The widespread instability including the rise of radical Islamist groups in Somalia was perceived as a threat to western interests. It is the core argument of the paper if western powers decide to provide security in Africa, they will be inclined to use proxy instead of deploying own troops. Security provision by proxy in African means that African troops are doing the actual fighting and peacekeeping on the ground while western powers basically pay the costs, the logistics, and the training of local African troops. The paper concludes that the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Somalia and The African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA) in Mali are proxies for the USA and the European Union.     

从女性角度析《美国在心中》中菲裔美国人的寻梦三部曲

菲律宾裔美国作家布洛桑的《美国在心中》是菲裔美国文学的扛鼎之作,作品通过自传体形式叙述了早期菲裔劳工的离散经验。本文聚焦于作品中相对零星、却具有较强隐喻性的女性书写,通过分析殖民地菲律宾女性、菲裔社区的妓女和理想化的白人女性3类女性群体,试图证明女性既像一面镜子一样,浓缩并再现了菲裔劳工从家乡到美国的苦难与辛酸,也像一盏明灯一样,指引着他们在黑暗与孤独中,在重重剥削与压迫中奋力前行追寻梦想。在这部书写菲裔男性的书中,零星的女性叙事不是孤立的存在,而是理解与构建菲裔离散经验特殊性与复杂性不可或缺的重要途径。     

加大旅游扶贫力度 促进桂林“两个建成”

到2020年桂林市全面建成小康社会,基本建成国际旅游胜地"两个建成"目标,是当前和今后一个时期桂林市的首要任务,旅游是桂林的优势产业和支柱产业,把旅游和扶贫工作结合起来,在贫困地区开发旅游业,使贫困人口尽快脱贫致富,是实现"两个建成"的重要举措。本文根据扶贫攻坚的现状和目标任务,论述了旅游开发对扶贫的意义和作用、桂林旅游开发扶贫的条件和优势,进而提出了桂林贫困地区旅游开发扶贫的对策建议。     

A Life in Song

正Famed Chinese opera singer Hao Jiang Tian completes a special 30th anniversary recital From the opening notes of Hao Jiang Tian’s recital commemorating his 30-year career as one of the world’s most celebrated operatic bass voices,including 19 years at the New York Metropolitan Opera,the audience could sense it was one of the singer’s most personal performances.The teenage Chinese factory worker with a"big voice"was transformed into a king of Verdi and Mozart,taking listeners through a repertoire of classic Chinese folk     

思想政治教育的社会向度与文化意义

社会转型、社会生态、社会控制、社会认同等揭示了思想政治教育的社会性。文化与思想政治教育亦存在紧密的联系。社会关系结构和文化关系结构为思想政治教育创设了叙事情境,且从社会和文化上规约着思想政治教育的行为主体;互动进程则从实践和变化上诠释了思想政治教育动态,并可能重塑社会关系与文化关系,使思想政治教育系统得以维系。     

论独立监管机构的经济法主体地位——以马克思主义社会权力机构学说为视角

早在19世纪中叶,马克思、恩格斯就已经预见到社会权力机构的兴起,这一预见已被中西方主要国家独立监管机构的产生与发展实践所证明。作为日益重要的经济管理主体,独立监管机构的公益代表性与权力合一性完全契合经济法主体特征的基本要求,亟需在经济法主体理论上对此作出回应。纳入独立监管机构考量后的经济法主体理论更加完善,可以明晰国家与政府在经济法主体类型上的差别,解释政府作为经济法主体和行政法主体在性质上的不同,并在一定程度上回答了社会中间层的经济法主体地位问题。基于独立监管机构的发展现状与趋势,经济法主体将呈现出"政府——独立监管机构——市场主体"互动模式。     

人体内乙醇含量检测的影响因素分析

人体内乙醇含量检测不仅是法医鉴定工作中常规检测项目,也是交通肇事案件最终的仲裁依据,其检测结果直接影响着受检人员的责任判罚。本文根据乙醇的毒理特征及在人体内的代谢过程,就不同检材、送检时效性、尸体腐败、血液检品中不同成分和保存方式、以及检测结果的不确定度等对乙醇含量检测结果的影响进行分析,以利于对受检者是否饮酒及其程度做出科学、公正的判定。     

美国性犯罪者登记制度的实证研究及反思

对性犯罪者进行登记是美国等西方国家普遍采用的用于遏制性犯罪的做法。但不少研究表明,性犯罪立法在控制性犯罪和减少再逮捕率方面并没有起明显作用,相反,性犯罪者登记制度给相当一部分性犯罪分子带来了诸多负面影响。关于性犯罪者登记制度需要进一步的研究,研究内容包括性犯罪者登记法是否能够减少性犯罪行为,谁来对登记程序进行监管,该制度对性犯罪者及其家庭的影响,以及实施登记法律的成本。