Risk management for targeting customs controls in developing countries: a risky venture for revenue performance?

Customs authorities in developing countries are often reluctant to forget systematic inspections for fear of risking revenue loss. Such physical inspections however, impede rather than facilitate trade. Control selectivity is therefore a key issue in customs administration reform. This paper shows how a sophisticated risk management method can facilitate trade by automatically and rationally selecting transactions, with the end result of actually enhancing revenue performance. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

以信息化提升防治腐败之能力

当前,在惩治和预防腐败工作中,信息不充分、不对称带来的制约日益突出,这种制约主要表现在对干部的监督管理、办案效率和制度设计三个方面。对此,必须强化信息先行、信息对称和信息运用意识,贯彻党的反腐倡廉建设总方针、总思路、总要求,落实中央《建立健全惩治和预防腐败体系2008—2012年工作规划》,充分运用信息研判、信息管理、信息技术、信息手段,以保证各项决策的科学性、监督管理的系统性、查办案件的高效性、制度建设的前瞻性,以及工作推进的针对性。     

The Eurozone as a Flawed Currency Area

The European single currency system has come under unprecedented strain during the past three years and there is little reason to assume that this will diminish, in any significant way, in the near future. This article briefly explores the background to the current eurozone crisis before outlining a number of potential solutions. Specifically, we discuss how the credit crunch induced recession of 2008 triggered the problems within the eurozone regarding sovereign debt, looking at the issues of spill‐over and free‐rider effects, together with the implementation of EMU fiscal rules. The analysis is then extended by outlining a series of potential remedies. This consists of a critical evaluation of solutions that the EU has already instigated (i.e. moral persuasion, financial relief measures and debt default), together with a series of alternative propositions (i.e. fiscal federalism and a European Clearing Union) and even the collapse of the euro.     

公民权益保障建设研究

城市化进程的急速推进,打破了传统社会的利益格局,社会大转型引发了众多的社会问题,导致涉诉信访问题层出不穷。研究和解决公民合理的利益诉求表达、协调各方利益、畅通公民权益保障渠道建设尤为重要。本文从大连地区社会不稳定因素产生的原因入手,针对当前公民权益保障中存在的问题提出领导干部应提高认识,转变观念,树立公民权利至上理念,多方拓展保障公民合法权益的途径,使维权维稳工作健康有序。     

西部非公有制经济发展的制约因素及其化解对策研究

在经济转轨时期,非公有制经济在相当大的程度上承担着整个社会经济组织重构的重任,但目前我国西部地区非公有制经济发育迟缓、市场竞争力弱,这种状况对西部地区深化改革和加快发展极其不利。为此,文章从文化观念、体制转轨及其路径选择等方面分析了制约西部地区非公有制经济发展的深层次原因,并据此提出了积极推进在西部树立新的非公有制经济观念、积极推进西部地区的体制改革等化解对策。     

Learning-Shaping Crises: A Longitudinal Comparison of Public Personnel Reforms in Italy, 1992‒2014

Abstract

This article analyses the attempts to reform public administration, notably personnel management, in Italy between 1992 and 2014, with a focus on implementation and the period following the multiple crises that have unfolded since 2008. By untangling the policy learning processes between multiple crises, past reform attempts and domestic and European “contexts in motion”, the article finds that efficiency-oriented reforms have floundered regardless of the political color of governments or indeed of the nature – political or technocratic – of the governments. Domestic factors, notably the frequency of government alternation, i.e. government instability, and European pressure have further reinforced the orientation towards single-loop lessons, i.e. the almost exclusive effecting of short-term cost-cutting measures.     

扩大内需的基本经验

扩大内需表明增长方式的变革,需要注意的是,我国扩大内需政策所依赖的经济基础、 经济机制及其根本原因有自己的特点。我们应把握这些基本特征,针对本国实际来制定宏观调控对策。