On Aid,Growth and Good Policies

This study provides a critical analysis of the growth regressions in Burnside and Dollar [2000]. First, we analyse the relationship between aid and government expenditure in a modified neo-classical growth model. One of the main results of the analysis is that while good policies spur growths they may at the same time reduce the effectiveness of foreign aid. Second, we show that the econometric results in Burnside and Dollar emphasising the crucial role of interaction between aid and good policies in the growth process are fragile, as they are extremely data dependent. Finally, we demonstrate that the Burnside and Dollar data lend support to the idea that the association between aid and growth can be approximated by decreasing returns to aid. This finding conforms well to regression results in other recent studies.     

信仰·仪式·神话——“产翁”与“射日”习俗解析

"产翁"即男子"坐月子",是唐至清代广泛流行于中国南方壮侗语族先民中的一类特殊习俗。与"射日"有关的神话在中国也曾广泛流行,西南地区苗瑶族群中至今流传,甚至遗有表演这一神话的"射日舞"。分析发现,二者均是古之某种仪式的遗存。其中,"产翁"之俗是人们相信男子"坐月子"可保母子平安信仰下的一种仪式,它的出现或与南方湿热气候下初生儿的存活率有关。而"射日神话",本是对"射日"仪式的解释,"射日"是人们在旱灾中登高以箭射日的一种仪式,基于人们相信如此可驱退酷热的信仰,其或与发生在距今4000年前后的气候异常有关。     

医学预科生与医院管理者的人文素质教育对比分析

本文选取医学预科生与医院管理者的人文素质教育各一例,即缅怀无言良师和晨读,从案例背景、实施目的、实施对象及特点、实施过程及效果等方面进行异同分析,得出医学人文教育的局部共性规律,并探寻医学人文教育与医学日常教学活动在方法论上的关联性。     

全力搞好工会维权工作

以修改后的《工会法》为依托,在分析工会发挥维护职工权益作用基础上,详细介绍天津工业大学工会在代表和维护女教职工合法权益、促进女工素质提高方面的做法和成绩,最终建立以维权为目标的工会工作激励机制。     

Commentary: Promising answers,and the next generation of questions

The papers in this special issue will be immensely valuable in taking forward the agenda of research, practice and theory construction in the field of offender rehabilitation. Some have consolidated existing knowledge in specific areas and analysed its potential implications. Others have identified the key points at issue in the debate between different models of the rehabilitation process. Still others have explored or developed a number of relatively neglected matters, including the delivery of treatment within a coercive framework; the role of labelling in change and desistance processes; the importance of the therapeutic alliance in offence-focused work; and reconceptualisation of the responsivity principle within the framework of therapeutic jurisprudence. The present paper extracts some further principal themes from the spectrum of issues raised. Discussion of these is grouped under the four headings of theory construction, evidence accumulation, practical implementation, and ethical and political dimensions.     

The use of tactical polygraph with sex offenders

Abstract

Little is known about current re-entry practices, nor the extent to which they facilitate re-entry, reintegration and, ultimately, desistance from future offending. Göbbels, Ward and Willis recently developed the Integrative Theory of Desistance from Sex Offending (ITDSO), which comprehensively describes the individual desistance process in four phases. In the current research, the re-entry phase of the ITDSO was used as a theoretical framework to evaluate current re-entry practices in five North American sex offender treatment programmes. Inductive thematic analyses were conducted using interview data from programme directors and final client assignments. Eleven themes were identified. Findings are discussed in relation to their fit with the ITDSO and suggestions are made for improving re-entry practices so that they better promote desistance.     

慈济功德会在海外的传播及影响

1985年之后,侨居各国的台湾慈济人,将慈济志业推广于台湾之外。截至2007年,慈济组织遍布世界五大洲,在全球44个国家成立了超过320个分支会或联络处。慈济在世界范围内开展的各项志业主要包括:救灾;扶贫济困;支持教育,尤其是儿童教育;关注并保护儿童健康等。慈济慈善事业运作时不分种族、宗教及国度,这是它能够在全球广泛传播并产生强大影响的关键原因。     

大学语文--人性教育的重要课堂

大学语文课程在传布传统人文精神的同时,还应加强学生对"善"与"恶"的辨析能力,学会对"理"与"欲"的处理协调,建立起健全美好的人性.     

公序良俗原则的适用体系

公序良俗作为现代民法一项重要的法律概念和法律原则,在司法上得到了广泛的运用。科学地界定公序良俗的概念,可以有效地防止其不确定性所带来的严重的负面效果。但要对其进行深入的解读,不能期望一个完美的概念界定,而应该变换视角,界定公序良俗的基本要素。在适用公序良俗时,一方面应确认其作为基本原则适用时的一般规则,另一方面应将法律行为违反公序良俗的判定标准客观化、具体化,形成类型化的个别制度规定。违反公序良俗,理应承担不利的法律后果。我国应该充分借鉴其他国家和地区的立法和司法实践的经验,从实际出发,建构公序良俗适用体系。     

再评《甲申文化宣言》的学理基础

《甲申文化宣言》的学理基础中存在的问题很多。除了笔者在《评甲申文化宣言》中已经评论的文化中的不同因素分离论和文化多元论外,还有两个需要评论的问题是文化恒久论和文化无优劣论。《宣言》认为的文化恒久性实际上也就是文化永恒性。文化既是历史范畴又具永恒性是一个具有内在矛盾的命题,且文化永恒性的观点是错误的。文化无优劣论是缺乏文化形态学观念的文化相对主义;其用意在于抵制工业文化价值对于农业文化的影响;其后果是阻碍中国文化的转型。