Commitments and challenges in participatory development: a Korean NGO working in Cambodia

Despite their growing significance in the development field, academic research regarding development NGOs from emerging donors, such as South Korea, is almost non-existent. This study is based on a case study of LotusWorld, a Korean NGO, and its two recent projects conducted in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Based on interviews with Korean staff and with a group of villagers in the local community, the article examines how LotusWorld’s vision and practices of participation have evolved from the first project to the second, as well as the challenges that they faced. Suggestions for further community participation are made for key actors.     

Promoting inclusive development in Ghana: disabled people’s and other stakeholders’ perspectives

This article highlights barriers to inclusive development from the perspective of disabled people, as well as staff of NGOs and government agencies. A qualitative study was conducted between August 2011 and September 2012, and in September 2013, in rural and urban areas in Greater Accra and Eastern regions in Ghana. The research shows that inaccessible public infrastructure and services, negative attitudes of service providers, little political will, limited capacity of development agencies, and lack of multi-agency coordination in the disability development sector were barriers to disabled people’s inclusion and participation in development processes.     

The face of development aid: volunteers and their hosts in southern Israel

The current scholarship on development aid has asserted that a “transformation” of development, one that “puts people first”, is presently taking place in the particular form of volunteer aid. In southern Israel, this claim is evident in recent attempts to “strengthen” depressed “development town” communities through a movement that combines Zionist settlement with the volunteer aid of university students. Based on ethnographic work in the development town of Yeruham, this article problematises this claim by investigating the daily encounter of volunteers with members of their multiply marginalised host community. It challenges such claims of “transformation” and exposes the complex social reality of what it means to “develop” and “empower” a population routinely framed as disadvantaged and targeted for aid.     

重塑公安行政文化探析

公安行政文化是创建服务型公安行政的有力保证。受内、外部环境的制约,我国当前的公安行政文化还存在不少问题,需要进行重塑,以推动公安事业的发展,完成党和国家赋予公安机关的政治和社会责任。     

卫生法学专业设置现状及人才培养模式探讨

本文对国内外卫生法学专业设置的现状进行了介绍和分析，并从适应医疗卫生事业发展、满足卫生执法实际需要的角度出发，对卫生执法人才的培养模式进行了探讨，提出了最佳的解决方案。     

Types of organised crime in Italy. The multifaceted spectrum of Italian criminal associations and their different attitudes in the financial crisis and in the use of Internet technologies

This paper discusses the opportunity to differentiate four different criminological types of organised crime in Italy by drawing on a subset of case studies and interviews to law enforcement officers and experts collected for two on-going research projects. We hypothesise that, since these types exploit different social opportunity structures for their criminal activities, they have different capacities of adaptation and react differently when confronted with different kinds of innovations and changes. We test these four types against two significant phenomena that have been deeply impacting Italian society, among others, recently: the commercialization of the Internet and the economic and financial crisis that has hit Europe since late 2008. We conclude that these types offer a valid help to guide our understanding of what organised crime is today in Italy, as well as to assess the capacity of the existing legal framework to properly face all them. These criminological types could also serve as lenses to filter the different experiences of organised crime in other European countries, thus facilitating comparative research.     

冷漠:日常生活中情感虚无现象的反思

冷漠作为现代人的一种稳定的具有特质性的状态,虽然在现代社会之前就已经出现,但当下冷漠在广度和深度两个维度上的蔓延,却与现代社会的变迁密切相关。出现在日常生活中的冷漠现象,是一种深层情感消解的状态。社会分工的精细化以及市场机制的不断发展,为冷漠的蔓延提供了结构背景。社会变迁的加速化,而适应文化没有跟上物质社会变迁的步伐,进一步导致了现代人的价值失落和自我丧失,反映在对外部世界的态度上就是冷漠。现代性不但使人与周围世界的联系越来越远,也造成了人与自我的疏离。重拾自我,保持情感的本真性,也许能为化解冷漠的心态找到出路。     

Turningthe TapBackon

正China’s central bank cuts interest rates to lift a sagging economy,but is it enough?Shi Hailin,31,is an investment project manager of a state-owned enterprise living in Beijing.After buying an apartment in the southwest Fourth Ring Road of the capital city in 2012,he became a fangnu,or mortgage slave,burdened with much financial pressure.Recently,Shi breathed a sigh of relief as the country’s interest rates were cut for the first     

推动金融创新 促进非公有制企业跨越发展——以贵州省为例

近年来,随着经济体制改革的推进和深化,贵州非公有制经济取得了长足发展,在整个国民经济中所占比重不断提高,对促进贵州经济社会发展发挥了重要作用。然而,融资难的问题始终是严重制约非公有制经济发展的瓶颈。破解非公有制经济融资难,是一项复杂的系统工程,需要健全非公有制企业政策法规体系、创新贵州知识产权质押贷款模式、建立规范的现代企业制度、推进贵州中小企业上市、发展完善非公有制企业贷款担保机构、积极发展民间融资等方式,拓宽非公有制企业融资渠道。