绿色壁垒与我国经济的“绿化”

绿色经济已成为世界经济的发展趋势,“绿色壁垒”也相伴而生。我们必须站在可持续发展战略的高度,选择以可持续发展为主导的工业化模式,提升我国的产品质量。要联合发展中国家,反对发达国家苛刻的环境壁垒要求,保护我国的合法权益。积极争取国际组织的环保技术与资金支持,发展我国“绿色产业”。     

全面建设小康社会进程中环境保护对策初探(下)

当前,我国的环境问题主要是涉及经济、法律、社会、科技、教育、文化传统等诸多方面、领域的“问题复合体”。积极地从自然科学和社会科学的双重视角去集成各个领域专家的智慧,加强各方面和跨学科的交流与合作,打破以前相关部门在环保问题上的封闭、独立状态,逐步形成一种综合的环境治理模式和相应的对策,以便更好地解决环境问题,已日益紧迫、刻不容缓。     

协调社会经济利益关系是加强执政能力建设的中心环节

本文针对我国在“十一五”时期,“机遇与风险同在,发展与挑战同行”的基本特征,论述了加强执政能力建设的重要性和紧迫性;紧紧结合我国社会的实际,提出并阐述了提高协调社会经济利益关系的能力是“十一五”期间加强执政能力建设的中心环节的观点。     

评新自由主义市场经济理论及其实践效率——兼论我国应坚持的几个正确选择

西方新自由主义市场经济理论,对发达资本主义国家来说,不是一种理想的市场经济理论,对落后国家和转型国家来说,不仅不是福音,而且是个陷阱.因此,在我国改革开放过程中,必须高度警惕和抵制国内外新自由主义的消极影响和干扰,毫不动摇地坚持走社会主义市场经济的道路.     

《循环经济法》之定位探析——兼与梁毅雄先生商榷

如果《循环经济法》定位不准确,将会成为以发展循环经济为借口,以环境资源为代价的污染大法。《循环经济法》主要属于环保法范畴,而不是经济法;是循环经济法律体系中的基本法、牵头法;《循环经济法》要软硬兼施,充分发挥基本法指导性和宏观调控的作用。     

WTO背景下的政府职能观

加入WTO ,加快了中国经济与世界一体化的进程。政府对经济和社会的管理在观念、体制和行为方式上需要做必要的调整。确立新形势下的政府职能观 ,改革和转变政府职能 ,必须遵循WTO规则。     

能力建设：应当重视的一个新的时代性课题

1978年以来,中国的社会图景发生了整体性的转变,这种转变把“能力建设及其对当代中国发展的意义”这一新的时代课题推到了前台。这就要求我们必须专门、全面和深入地研究能力、能力建设、能力建设的目标与方式、能力建设对当代中国发展的重大意义等问题,以及创立能力建设理论,并以这一理论为指导,围绕能力建设,从规律性上探索当代中国的发展理念、发展思路、发展途径、发展空间、发展力量、发展机遇和发展经验。     

From Form to Function to Sustainable Solutions? Reforming Public Sectors in Low Income Countries: New Approaches and Available Evidence of “What Works”

The article reviews the evidence about success of public sector reforms in low and middle income countries, external support for such reforms, and recent ideas of how such support could be better designed and implemented. Enthusiasm for supporting public sector reforms has decreased over the past decade, and available data suggest that there has been little overall improvement. However, it also indicates that a small number of countries have significantly strengthened their public sectors over the past 10 to 20 years. The article then reviews five new approaches that have been proposed for better supporting public sector reforms. It looks at how they diagnose what has not worked and the implications of what should be carried out differently. Furthermore, it explores to what extent the available evidence of overall stagnation as well as of success cases fits with these proposed alternatives, to gauge to what extent they are likely to make a difference. The final section sets out the implications. Development agencies should seek to deliberately test a combination of the proposed alternative approaches, particularly in more difficult contexts, taking political feasibility as a basis and adding other elements. The urgency to make progress remains high. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Putting the Supplier in Housing Supply: An Overview of the Growth and Concentration of Large Homebuilders in the United States (1990–2007)

As housing production was ramping up in the 1990s and 2000s, some of the industry’s largest firms experienced remarkable growth primarily through mergers and acquisitions and the issuance of debt; the market share of the 10 largest firms tripled between 1995 and 2005. This article describes the role of financial firms in encouraging that growth and some of its consequences. Drawing on financial filings, news reports, investor analyses, and other relevant data, this article offers an overview of the relationship between homebuilders and investment firms, as well as a new explanation of the oversupply of housing in the 2000s. In doing so, this article seeks to bring attention to homebuilders as a missing feature in analyses of housing supply and housing markets, and proposes directions for future research.     

Reforming and Performing the Informal Economy: Constitutive Effects of the World Bank's Anti-informality Practices in Kosovo

The World Bank has for over a decade tried to formalize the informal economy in Kosovo. However, local journalists and businessmen among others provide an alternative understanding of informality that problematizes the World Bank’s view and actions. Against this backdrop, the article analyses the constitution and the constitutive effects of the World Bank’s anti-informality operations in Kosovo between 1999 and 2014. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s power analytics, the article claims that the Bank’s agenda, and the economic ideas enacted through it, does structure and shape informal economic practices on the ground. Yet this structuring involves two forms of misrecognition. As a result, informality is paradoxically constituted (in novel ways) and reconstituted through the World Bank’s imposed anti-informality agenda. The article concludes with a discussion of how this underlines the need for policy solutions that depart from liberal peacebuilding’s subject–object distinction to form instead around an acknowledgement of informality as emergent and transforming throughout international interventions.