西部大开发与日本对华投资战略

在西部大开发中,如何借鉴日资在东部沿海地区投资成功的经验,采取适合于西部地区的新的投资战略,不仅对日本企业,而且对西部地区的开发具有重要意义。     

关于创建甘肃风险资本市场的若干构想

我国已兴起了风险投资的热潮 ,甘肃必须关注风险投资事业。在西部大开发战略全面实施之际 ,必须充分发挥地方政府的作用 ,加快创建甘肃风险资本市场的步伐。通过创建风险投资公司 ,吸引外商参与风险投资 ,培育风险资本的退出渠道等措施开拓甘肃风险资本市场 ,再造一个为风险企业服务的投融资系统 ,促进甘肃高科技产业的发展。     

近20年来台湾对印尼的投资

本文以台湾所推动的南向政策为一观察点,探讨近20年来台湾在印尼的投资情形,认为亚洲金融危机爆发后,由于印尼政局不稳和排华暴动,台商蒙受了巨大损失,对印尼的投资急剧衰退,印尼不再是台商南向的最佳选择。     

论我国民营科技企业融资模式

改革开放21年来,民营科技企业获得了长足发展,在经济中起着举足轻重的作用,但由于国家政策一直以扶持具有战略地位的大型国有企业为重点,民营科技企业的融资几乎为一个真空地带,资金筹措难始终是制约民营科技企业发展的关键问题.突破资金不足的瓶颈有三种战略选择利用风险投资资金,上市到香港第二板市场以及境外上市融资.     

无锡文化创意产业集聚园区发展的问题和解决思路

文化创意产业是在文化产业的基础上,源于创意产业这一创新理念的发现和发明,把科技、文化和智慧相结合,通过知识产权的生成,创造经济效益的新经济形式,被誉为21世纪的新兴朝阳产业。当前在全国正涌动一股文化创意产业园区建设热潮,该文对这一现象进行了冷静思考,阐述了当前文化创意产业园区存在的问题,并放眼全国,从操作层面提出了可行性建议和意见。     

Place and Policy Preferences – Spatial Divides in Attitudes towards Social Policies in Germany

The rise of the knowledge economy has led to a bifurcation between prosperous, often urban, areas and “left-behind” regions. While the literature has started to analyse the political implications of these developments for electoral behaviour and socio-cultural attitudes, the structuring of social policy preferences by place remains unclear. Distinguishing between an economic (booming-declining) and a geographic (urban–rural) dimension, I argue that differences in material self-interest and ideological predispositions explain spatial divides in support for different types of social policies. Combining original survey data on voters' preferences with municipal-level data in Germany, I show that general support for social policy is higher in declining than in booming regions. However, social investments (e.g., active labour market policies) are preferred over consumption policies (e.g., unemployment benefits) in booming and, to a smaller degree, in urban than in declining and rural regions. These findings contribute to a bigger discussion on compensating “left-behind” regions.     

全球治理视野下国际投资法治的困境与变革

国际投资是全球经济增长的重要引擎。国际投资法治建设亟待加强,以促进国际投资自由化便利化、构建公正合理的国际投资秩序、推动全人类的共同繁荣和可持续发展。当前,国际投资法治建设以双边和区域安排为主导,缺乏多边统筹,不成体系,导致投资法治的功能缺失,滞约了国际投资发展。与此同时,国际投资格局发生深刻变化,投资条约内容的趋同和共商共建共享的全球治理理念的创新为国际投资法治建设提供了良好契机。为此,我们应创新国际投资法治变革的路径,以多边投资实体规则为国际投资法治建设的主要内容,推动国际投资法治的变革。     

Foreign investment,black economic empowerment and militarised patronage politics in Zimbabwe

This paper seeks to analyse Zimbabwe's economic empowerment policy. It argues that while there is a felt need for Zimbabwe to redress colonially induced injustices and racial imbalances in the ownership of the means of production, a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to the indigenisation of the economy is fundamentally flawed as it deters investors and may further damage the country's already extremely fragile economy. The implementation of the land reform programme contributed to the decline of Zimbabwe's economy: lessons learnt from the programme and related economic policies of the past 15 years highlight the problems of empowerment policies that are intertwined with patronage politics. The government's negation of basic economic principles and failure to open spaces for critical engagement with all relevant stakeholders epitomises an ill-advised indigenisation and economic empowerment strategy. The policy will not promote and retain foreign investment;nor are there sustainable prospects of internally oriented accumulation strategies on the horizon.     

Should the African lion learn from the Asian tigers? A comparative-historical study of FDI-oriented industrial policy in Ethiopia,South Korea and Taiwan

Ethiopia’s economy has been growing at breakneck speed for well over a decade now, earning the nickname as Africa’s lion. In recent years, the development literature on Ethiopia has paid particular attention to the role of industrial policy, especially the ways in which the Ethiopian experience compares to that of the Asian tigers. But through this comparative-historical perspective, little attention has been devoted to an important aspect of industrial policy in Ethiopia – foreign direct investment (FDI) in the manufacturing sector. This paper compares FDI-oriented industrial policy in Ethiopia in the current era (particularly focusing on light manufacturing) to that of South Korea and Taiwan between 1960 and 1990, arguably the two most generalisable cases among the Asian tigers. The paper argues that FDI-oriented industrial policy in Ethiopia seems to be bringing about short-term economic benefits, and is showing promise for further industrialisation. At the same time, it could benefit from taking more lessons from the long-term economic development perspective that characterised South Korea’s and Taiwan’s approach to FDI. Such a long-term perspective most importantly includes pro-active strategies to transfer technology from foreign firms to the domestic economy and the creation of backward linkages from foreign to domestic firms.     

Governance Barriers to Renewable Energy in North Africa

Solar power in the North African region has the potential to provide electricity for local energy needs and export to Europe. Nevertheless, despite the technical feasibility of solar energy projects, stakeholders still perceive projects in the region as risky because of existing governance issues. Certain areas of solar projects, such as construction, operation and management, are the most prone to governance risks, including lack of transparency and accountability, perceived as barriers for deployment of the projects. It is likely that large-scale foreign direct investment into solar energy will not eliminate existing risks, but might even increase them. Furthermore, the recent political changes in the region have addressed some governance risks but not all of them, especially bureaucratic corruption. Stakeholders recommend a broad set of measures to facilitate development of solar projects in the region, ranging from auditing of individual projects to simplification and unification of bureaucratic procedures.