In Search of Strategies to Face the Economic Crisis: Evidence from Greek Farms

This study examines the strategies – defensive or aggressive, individual or collective – undertaken by sheep farms in a Greek rural area in order to face the repercussions of the economic crisis and their effects on the productivity and economic performance of these farms. The article presents the results of a farm management survey conducted in 2010 and repeated in 2014 in northern Evros, Greece. The mix of strategies – mainly passive – adopted by farmers shows their confusion in the face of crisis conditions, which has resulted in reduced productivity, more use of family labour and a rise in collective actions.     

加快推进科技成果转化及产业化

紧紧抓住促进科技与经济紧密结合这一核心,以科技成果转化为现实生产力为主线,是实现科学发展的必然要求。该文通过对北京市、上海市、陕西省、湖北省等地的调查研究,分析了中国科技成果转化及产业化的现状和面临的问题,并提出相关政策建议。     

Innovation and growth in traditional agriculture of the lower Volta,Ghana

This article addresses the important question of whether foreign direct investment enhances economic growth and labour productivity in Mexico, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. After briefly reviewing the Mexican experience with net FDI inflows during the 1990s, the article presents a simple endogenous growth model which explicitly incorporates any positive (negative) externalities generated by additions to the foreign capital stock. Using cointegration analysis, the article estimates a dynamic labour productivity function for the 1960-95 period that includes the impact of the growth rate in the stocks of both private and foreign capital (as opposed to the flows) and the economically active population (EAP) (rather than the rate of population growth). The error correction model (ECM) estimates suggest that increases in both private ad (lagged) foreign investment spending, as well as the rate of growth in exports, have a positive and economically significant effect on the rate of labour productivity growth. In addition, the results show that increases in the EAP have a negative and statistically significant effect on the rate of labour productivity growth, while changes in the government consumption variable have a negative but marginally significant impact. The error correction terms of the estimated models are negative and statistically significant, thus suggesting that deviations of actual labour productivity growth from its long-run value are corrected in subsequent periods. Finally the article generates historical simulations from the estimated ECM's and offers some policy recommendations to enhance the positive externalities associated with FDI inflows.     

Geographic and technological R&;D spillovers within the triad: micro evidence from US patents

This paper aims at assessing the magnitude of R&D spillover effects on large international R&D companies’ productivity growth. In particular, we investigate the extent to which R&D spillover effects are intensified by both geographic and technological proximities between spillover generating and receiving firms. We also control for the firm’s ability to identify, assimilate and absorb the external knowledge stock. The results estimated by means of panel data econometric methods (system GMM) indicate a positive and significant impact of both types of R&D spillovers and of absorptive capacity on productivity performance.

"三个代表"的科学内涵及时代价值--学习江泽民同志"七一"重要讲话的体会

中国共产党在新世纪面临国际、国内、党内深刻变化的三大考验。“三个代表”的核心是在新的形势下保持党的先进性问题,而只有保持先进性才能长期执政,长期执政才能保证中国的社会主义前途。在充满希望和挑战的21世纪,“三个代表”科学地回答了“建设一个什么样的党和怎样建设党”这样一个新的重大历史课题,是新时期党的建设的伟大纲领。     

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.     

逻辑起点·必要条件·动态过程:人的全面发展的三维解读

寻求马克思主义"人的全面发展"理论与当代中国"人的发展"问题的契合,必须从"现实的个人""生产力的发展""人的发展的过程分析"三个方面对人的全面发展问题进行拓展研究。     

我国文化大发展大繁荣的历史机遇与挑战

21世纪,文化的重要性越来越凸显出来,国家的竞争归根结底是文化的竞争,文化也是综合国力中最重要、最为活跃的要素之一。改革开放以来党的一系列文化建设战略部署,尤其是十八大关于建设社会主义文化强国的论述,为我国的文化发展指明了方向。面对历史的机遇与挑战,我们必须清醒地认识到:推动我国文化大发展大繁荣刻不容缓,是我们实现中华民族的伟大复兴梦想的必由之路。     

解放思想就是解放生产力

三十年改革开放历史的实质内容就是解放思想、解放生产力。三十年的历史，解放思想是先导，改革开放是动力，解放生产力和发展生产力是总的要求，在此基础上，形成和发展了中国特色社会主义。     

"三个代表"重要思想中的正义观

"三个代表"重要思想蕴含丰富的正义理论先进的生产力和与之相适应的生产关系和上层建筑的统一是"三个代表"正义观的社会基础;先进的文化是"三个代表"正义观的精神载体;实现人的自由全面发展是"三个代表"正义观的伦理实质.