Resolving the tensions between the principles of aid effectiveness: an Indonesia-Australia technical assistance project

It has been more than 10 years since the Paris Declaration was signed, yet critical questions remain about whether – and how – increased compliance at the national level has improved the overall effectiveness of Official Development Assistance. Previous studies have argued fundamental tensions arise between the principles of aid effectiveness as they are translated into practice. This article explores this argument using a case study of an Australian-Indonesian technical assistance project – the Poverty Reduction Support Facility – carried out between 2010 and 2015. It demonstrates that tensions do arise between the principles of aid effectiveness as they are translated into practice, but these can be resolved through political negotiation and compromise.     

疫情防控中社会治理制度之完善

疫情防控是对我国国家治理体系的集中考验。本文以社会治理制度为着眼点,探讨新冠肺炎疫情防控中社会治理存在的不足并提出相应的建议。坚持和发挥制度优势,这既是抗击疫情、战胜疫情的重要手段,也是今后疫情防控的主要抓手。针对疫情防控中出现的治理问题,应以制度为突破口,补齐短板,完善与疫情防控相关的体系和机制,以有效提升社会治理效能。     

Generating and using evidence to guide public policy and practice: Lessons from the Campbell Test-bed Project

This paper offers lessons from a three-year Test-bed project that tested systematic review practices developed by the Campbell Collaboration and the Cochrane Collaboration. Under the Test-bed project 14 systematic reviews were completed of interventions in crime prevention, social welfare, and education. (References to the products of these test-bed reviews are included in the reference list, preceded by an asterisk). Building on this experience, the authors recommend structuring future reviews around well-defined review topics more explicitly focused on particular interventions, and constraining literature search to evaluations of relevant interventions. Reviewers should analyze and report findings from RCTs separately from non-RCT studies and report on impact estimates in natural units, instead of relying solely on effect size metrics. Further, reviewers should report intent-to-treat estimates as the causally valid outcomes from RCTs. Analyses of impacts for treated sub-groups should be reported as non-experimental findings. More attention should be given to the minimum detectable effect a study can support, as well as any information on the possible costs and benefits of the intervention. Pooling results from studies of disparate interventions, populations, and contexts is not recommended. Meta-analysis should be reserved for homogeneous clusters of interventions studies. Forest plots are helpful for presenting study findings and confidence limits. However, simple bar charts preserve important information on the base levels for the outcomes. Finally reviewers should define a priori the minimum data set or required elements that allow study inclusion, and use this information systematically in making decisions about what evidence to admit into the review.     

Financial Institutions between Effectiveness and Legitimacy – A Legal Analysis of the World Bank,Global Environment Facility and Prototype Carbon Fund

Environmental financing is one of the crucial issues of international environmental law and its implementation. From an environmental perspective a prerequisite for success is that financial resources are used in an environmentally effective way. Whether the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) can be perceived as effective environmental actors has to be measured by their objectives, their potential to promote accepted environmental standards and their relevant funding practices. After significant improvements of their environmental policies, the World Bank must be considered the most important institution for environmental financing due to its involvement in environmental trust funds but also in regard to its regular lending practices. The GEF remains exceptional due to its institutional structure and scope, whereas the PCF is an example of public–private partnerships that might be a model for future financing via trust funds. Since acceptance of institutions can only be created if they are considered to be legitimate, legitimacy is closely tied to effectiveness. The main criteria for legitimacy are state consent and the equality of states as well as supplementary considerations such as transparency and public participation. From this perspective the World Bank, GEF and PCF structures of voting and participation have come a long way, and despite their particularities and deficiencies they reflect to a varying degree elements of legitimate decision making.     

论基于"子女战略"的浙江工商大学办学特色

本文在回顾“子女战略”提出背景的基础上,阐述了“子女战略”的内涵和“子女战略”得以成立的理论依据,归纳与总结了实施“子女战略”的六大举措,分析了实施“子女战略”的效果。研究结果表明,“推行‘子女战略’,让学生在严格要求与热情关爱中健康成长”,已成为浙江工商大学学生教育培养的一大特色。     

宪法基本权利的私法效力

我国司法实践中频繁出现非公权力侵犯公民宪法基本权利的案件,这使我们有必要讨论在我国实现宪法基本权利私法效力的必要性、条件和具体模式设计问题。     

论我军基层文化建设的军营特色

基层文化建设是我军思想政治建设的一项重要内容。在改革开放和发展社会主义市场经济条件下，加强基层文化建设，既应充分吸取社会文化发展的优秀成果，又必须注意保持我军文化建设浓郁的军营特色。其军营特色主要体现在：鲜明的思想性、强烈的战斗性、广泛的群众性、丰富的知识性和充分的愉悦性等方面。     

International Public Goods and Agency Problems in Treaty Organizations

This paper analyzes the extent to which international public goods and agency problems are present in international organizations. A noncooperative model of the funding choices of donor countries and the subsequent policy choices of an international agency is used to develop hypotheses about the behavior of ideal and problematic international agencies. The analysis suggests that international agencies are likely to be underfunded and undermonitored relative to that which maximizes the joint interest of signatory countries. The funding and policy implications of the model are tested using data from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The statistical results suggest that (i) treaty obligations affect behavior of Annex 1 and non-Annex 1 countries, (ii) GEF’s allocation of grants generally advances the international environmental agenda, and (iii) significant free-riding and agency problems exist in GEF as it is presently organized. Overall, the empirical results suggest that treaty organizations may be relatively effective, if not perfect, instruments of international public policy.      

政府部门人力资源管理改革之研究

政府部门的人力资源管理改革是国家行政体制改革的一个重要组成部分,关系到整个转轨时期社会、经济的稳步发展。而传统上政府部门人事工作所依据的国家公务员制度又多具原则性和抽象性,相比之下其可操作性和适用性都比较差。本文即是从这一现状出发,经过吸收西方最佳人力资源管理模式的研究成果,结合科学发展观,对政府行政组织的人力资源管理模式的改革提出了新的思路,这对于提高政府绩效以及进一步完善我国的国家公务员制度具有现实意义。     

论社区矫正效果评估指标体系的构建

社区矫正效果评估指标体系的建立是开展社区矫正效果评估工作的重要环节,具有重要的理论研究意义。结合项目评估的相关理论知识,以社区矫正工作实践状况为基础,对社区矫正效果评估指标与指标体系等内容进行科学的界定。依据重新犯罪率、心理矫正两项指标在社区矫正效果评估中的地位,以社区矫正各项指标内容的确立为基础,尝试建立初步的社区矫正效果评估指标体系,并由此提出目前社区矫正效果评估需要解决的命题。