保持党的先进性与促进人的全面发展

保持党的先进性与促进人的全面发展在本质上是一致的,它体现了“三个代表”重要思想和建设中国特色社会主义的根本要求。从党的宗旨、建设学习型政党和构建学习型社会来看,促进人的全面发展是党的先进性的本质要求和内涵体现,从物质价值、政治价值、精神文化价值和社会历史价值等方面看,促进人的全面发展体现了党的先进性的价值追求。     

未来十年增长潜力预测与“十四五”时期战略目标、战略重点

“十四五”时期是我国从全面建成小康社会向基本实现社会主义现代化迈进的关键过渡期。基于数量和质量双重维度,采用趋势外推法预测未来经济增长潜力,未来十年中国的潜在经济增长率呈现明显下降态势,而经济增长质量潜力则出现显著上升趋势。“十四五”时期建设社会主义现代化国家的战略目标包括以推动高质量发展为基本导向、以提升国家核心竞争力为集中体现、以增进人民福祉为最终目的、以推进国家治理现代化为重要保障。在此基础上,“十四五”时期的战略重点是更加有力的创新驱动、更加优化的经济结构、更加完善的基础设施体系和更加现代化的发展道路。     

Continuity and catastrophe: business continuity management and the security of financial operations

This paper discusses business continuity management (BCM) and its role in contemporary financial institutions. BCM is a nascent disaster preparedness and recovery strategy that seeks to protect vital business operations from disruptions. The paper traces contemporary BCM back to Cold War continuity of government planning, and shows how BCM came to comprehend security as continuity of processes rather than integrity of goods. BCM is prominent in finance because it promises to mitigate operational risks, and it focuses on risks stemming from interdependencies in financial infrastructures. By engaging with two events that triggered continuity management in banks, Hurricane Sandy in New York City and the ‘Blockupy’ demonstrations in Frankfurt, the paper highlights how BCM is challenged by large-scale disasters as well as acts of public criticism.     

Competition and switching in public service markets: Can they reduce inequalities?

Regulatory reforms to public infrastructure services across European Union (EU) countries were aimed at increasing consumer welfare by introducing competition and choice into service markets. However, empirical evaluations have questioned whether these reforms have benefitted all consumers, suggesting that vulnerable groups of service users (especially those with lower levels of formal education), might be locked into poorly performing services. We assess the relationship between the level of competition in electricity and fixed telephony markets in EU countries and evaluate the affordability of these services for different socio‐educational layers. Our findings show that – although in countries where there is a relatively high frequency of switching, inequalities between socio‐educational groups are smaller and eventually disappear – competition as such does not play a part. These results suggest that demand‐side regulation that successfully enables consumer switching has the potential to equalize social welfare, thereby reflecting a possible convergence of regulatory instruments and the central aims of the welfare state in this context.     

日本、印度金融支持农村基础设施建设的经验及启示

日本、印度两国在农村基础设施建设过程中,有多种金融机构提供多样化的金融服务,如日本的农协、农林渔业金融公库,印度的国家农业和农村开发银行等,为农村基础设施建设提供了贷款、担保等服务,确保了农村基础设施建设的金融需求。日本、印度的金融支持农村基础设施建设的实践给我国提供了有益的启示。     

The goals and reality of the water–food–energy security nexus: the case of China and its southern neighbours

The so-called ‘nexus’ approach has recently been promoted as addressing externalities across the water, food and energy sectors, thus helping to achieve ‘water/energy/food security for all’, ‘equitable and sustainable growth’ and a ‘resilient and productive environment’. While these are noble goals, this article argues that the reality on the ground appears to be taking a different direction, at least when it comes to China and its neighbours in South and Southeast Asia. There, a new era of large-scale water infrastructure development is creating several security-related problems, which represent serious challenges to the nexus goals. These challenges include food–energy tensions, human security threats and ecological risks. These challenges can also be linked to rising friction surrounding the management of water, food and energy resources in the region. The article argues that, in order for the nexus goals to be achieved in China and the countries on its southern periphery, there must first be increased awareness of this nexus among policy-making elites.     

Putting Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects First: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Indigenous Mexico

This article argues that whilst indigenous people are central to the Mexican president's official developmentalist discourse of bringing prosperity to the country's marginalised and poor, their needs during the COVID-19 pandemic have not been met and their interests have been sidelined. Whilst experiencing serious loss of trading revenue, negative impacts of misinformation, and lack of access to appropriate healthcare, indigenous Mexicans also faced the aggressive advance on their territories of large-scale infrastructure projects, which have become the backbone of the president's strategy for countering the economic recession caused by the pandemic. The discontinuation of relevant legal means to challenge the advance of the megaprojects during the pandemic effectively threatened indigenous people's democratic rights to protect their land, identities and way of life.     

乡风文明建设的理论探究与现实思考

党和国家明确提出了建设社会主义新农村的五项指标,其中,“乡风文明”和“村容整洁”共同构成社会主义新农村的内在和外在形象。乡风是否文明直接关系到建设社会主义新农村的进程。“乡风文明”包含在“社会主义精神文明建设”和“中国特色社会主义文化建设”的活动内容之中。因此,要加大精神文明建设的力度,大力发展社会主义先进文化,为建设社会主义新农村、构建和谐社会提供强大的精神支撑,促进农村经济社会的协调发展。     

在加强基层党组织建设中突出先进性

科学发展和社会和谐是发展中国特色社会主义的本质要求,也是基层党组织建设必须服从和服务的大局;充分发展党内民主、尊重党员主体地位、加强党员队伍和干部队伍建设,是保持党的先进性的一项基础工作;建立健全党员经常受教育、永葆先进性的长效机制,统筹城乡基层党组织建设,全面巩固和发展先进性教育活动成果,实现基层党组织建设的可持续发展,是保持和发展党的先进性的基础性工作;改革创新、与时俱进是时代精神的核心内容,也是贯彻落实科学发展、实现基层党组织建设可持续发展的必然要求。     

做强产业金融,推动战略新兴产业和先进制造业发展

该文首先界定辨析了产业金融的概念,梳理分析产业发展与金融集聚的互动机制,指出国内产业金融存在的一般性问题,最后立足于推助战略新兴产业和先进制造业的发展,着力探讨政府主导的“政产金”合作模式.