The regional politics of scale: revisiting the functional aspects of the labour market dualism

This article seeks to revisit Arthur Lewis’s theory of labour market dualism, while focusing on human resource development in the form of labour productivity, to explain its usefulness in the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) contemporary policy discourses around non-economic integration in an era that is now classified as the Caribbean Educational Policy Space. The focus is on how key assumptions around labour productivity, and the lessons that can be deduced from analysing historical and contemporary policy initiatives, present plausible applicability to an expanding Caribbean single market and the proposed creation of the Caribbean single economy. In focusing on the discursive elements of labour productivity, it is contextualized that the free movement of skilled labour within CARICOM illustrates labour market dualism.     

“Zones of indistinction” and visions of post-reconciliation South Africa in District 9

In this article, I explore the ways in which District 9 reflects South Africa’s current socio-political transition through the problematical representation of the film’s eponymous slum and its impoverished inhabitants as well as its protagonist, Wikus van der Merwe. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s influential ideas of biopolitics, I demonstrate the ways in which the film provides a compelling critique of the effects of neoliberal capitalism on post-apartheid transition and South Africa’s complex geopolitical landscape. In this regard, I analyze how the slum figures as a “zone of indistinction” where political and economic forces combine to produce the paradoxical conditions in which impoverished South Africans are included in a democratic social contract, but are simultaneously excluded from the socioeconomic benefits that it promises.     

宁夏清真产业发展现状与对策研究

近年来,宁夏的清真产业呈现出了良好的快速发展势头。但是,若将此产业放在国家级战略的重点产业和宁夏沿黄经济区支柱产业的视角来看,其发展规模、层次及后劲仍存在着诸多有待解决的难点问题,应从宏观、中观、微观等方面采取相应的对策统筹解决。     

加快小城镇建设全面建设农村小康社会

党的十六大提出了全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标,而全面建设小康社会的难点在农村,重点也在农村.加快小城镇建设是解决农村现存诸多问题的有效途径之一,也是实现农村全面小康社会的有效途径之一.只有着力解决当前我国小城镇建设中存在的土地、资金、管理体制等问题,才能促进小城镇不断发展,进而加速全面建设农村小康社会的步伐.     

关于中小城市发展循环经济的几点思考——以贺州市为例

打造循环经济对于中小城市保持经济增长与转变经济发展方式以及推进资源节约和环境保护具有重要意义。近年来贺州市结合市情从技术角度、人本角度和社会角度打造循环经济。从贺州市的做法来看,中小城市发展循环经济需要处理好发展循环经济与保持经济增长、循环经济与经济性、存量经济与增量经济、经济发展的本地循环与外地循环等四对关系。     

法经济学视阈下的“小产权房”成因分析及解决进路

“小产权房”目前已成为社会的热点问题,其折射的社会矛盾和利益冲突是制度性的和深层次的,其作为一种新生事物,有它合理存在的原因.二元土地所有制是产生“小产权房”问题的制度根源,法律活动要以资源的有效配置和合理利用为目的,大量“小产权房”的出现表明外部利润的存在.通过完善集体土地所有权制度、明确定位集体建设用地制度功能、健...     

日本中小企业工会组建工作概述

日本工会非常重视中小企业的建会工作 ,根据日本中小企业多的特点 ,成立了全国和地方的一般工会 (相当于我国的行会工会 ) ,并通过开展各种适合于中小企业职工状况的活动 ,千方百计吸引中小企业职工入会 ,以维护中小企业职工的利益     

中小企业网络营销存在的问题及对策

我国越来越多的中小企业采取网络营销的方式进行营销活动,增强自己的市场竞争优势,但也存在诸多问题。本文对这些问题进行研究,提出有利于中小企业网络营销发展的一些对策。     

经济欠发达地区中小企业融资问题探析

长期以来,经济欠发达地区的中小企业始终没有摆脱资金匮乏的状况,而且融资难已经成为制约其进一步发展的“瓶颈”。这一问题在当前国家继续实施宏观经济调控的背景下显得更为突出。文章对经济欠发达地区中小企业融资特点进行了深入分析,并论述其形成的特殊原因,探讨如何通过融资创新化解经济欠发达地区中小企业融资困境问题。