Empowerment,Deliberative Development,and Local-Level Politics in Indonesia: Participatory Projects as a Source of Countervailing Power

The salience of the concept of “empowerment” has been deductively claimed more often than carefully defined or inductively assessed by development scholars and practitioners alike. We use evidence from a mixed methods examination of the Kecamatan (subdistrict) Development Project (KDP) in rural Indonesia, which we define here as development interventions that build marginalized groups’ capacity to engage local-level governing elites using routines of deliberative contestation. “Deliberative contestation” refers to marginalized groups’ practice of exercising associational autonomy in public forums using fairness-based arguments that challenge governing elites’ monopoly over public resource allocation decisions. Deliberative development interventions such as KDP possess a comparative advantage in building the capacity to engage because they actively provide open decision-making spaces, resources for argumentation (such as facilitators), and incentives to participate. They also promote peaceful resolutions to the conflicts they inevitably spark. In the KDP conflicts we analyze, marginalized groups used deliberative contestation to moderately but consistently shift local-level power relations in contexts with both low and high preexisting capacities for managing conflict. By contrast, marginalized groups in non-KDP development conflicts from comparable villages used “mobilizational contestation” to generate comparatively erratic shifts in power relations, shifts that depended greatly on the preexisting capacity for managing conflict.

Institutions and Caribbean Economic Performance: Insights from Jamaica

We explore the impact of social institutions on economic performance in Jamaica through a reinterpretation of the plantation economic model. In its original form, the plantation model fails to develop a causal link between the plantation legacy and persistent underdevelopment. Despite its marginalization, the model remains useful for discussions on growth and development. Consequently, we offer a reappraisal using the causal insights from Kenneth Sokoloff and Stanley Engerman. We use two examples to demonstrate how inequality encourages the formation of institutions that are inconsistent with growth, and an empirical analysis to confirm the hypothesized relationship between inequality, institutions, and economic development. Since inequality is expected to influence growth indirectly, we use a structural specification, which follows William Easterly’s recent test of Sokoloff and Engerman’s argument. Our reliance on a time-series specification is unique. We demonstrate that the expectation that, on average, inequality and growth is negatively related and that institutions may compromise growth are accurate for Jamaica, the most cited Caribbean nation in the current discourse. Our results carry several policy implications, including support for the recent calls in Jamaica for political restructuring. However, both the paucity of similar studies and the importance of the implications for sustainable growth and development demand further analyses.

工会的四种模式与中国特色社会主义工会

工会发展的模式大体上可以概括为四种：工团主义工会,革命性工会,生产辅助型工会和中国特色的社会主义工会。每种模式都嵌入特定的社会制度并且反映其存在的时代背景。中国特色社会主义工会也是依据中国现阶段的基本国情而形成的,既有工会的共性,又有其独特的内涵。     

日本政府对企业人力资源开发支持政策变迁对我国的启示

以"终身雇佣制"为基础的"企业培训"为日本的经济发展提供了人才保证,可以说是日本经济实现高速增长的支柱之一。但随着日本国际、国内经济环境的变化,为实现从后发展经济向工业化经济转变而形成的日本型经济体制开始动摇。支持日本经济发展的强有力的"日本型企业培训"由于失去了制度保障而受到了很大的冲击。针对上述情况,为促进企业积极、持续地进行人力资源开发,以保持日本经济发展的可持续性。日本政府在支持企业人力资源开发方面政策采取了一些政策,值得我国政府学习和借鉴。     

图们江地区开发开放再度升温

在区域合作一体化成为新一轮发展新模式的时代,东北亚地区间国际关系的改善和各国经济形势的好转,延边内生动力的驱动,为图们江地区开发创造了良好的条件。由此,UNIDO、国家、省、州对图们江地区开发的关注再度升温,周边国家的开发热情再度升温,延边由"主动参与"演变为"主导发展"的角色。为了提高图们江地区开发的深度与质量,提出了创新国际合作开发体制的新机制,并制定了建设新的增长点与畅通的对外通道、建立综合配套改革试验区与金融支撑体系等对策建议。     

Ordering Disorder – On the Perplexities of the Partnership Literature

The literature on public‐private partnerships (PPP) has proliferated in recent years. However, confusion about the actual meaning of PPP still abounds. As a consequence, contradicting findings and statements about PPP flourish in the literature. This article reviews the literature, and argues that there are different streams of PPP research which operate with qualitatively different notions of the PPP concept. Accordingly the literature is divided into four different PPP ‘approaches’. By doing so the article offers some clarification concerning an increasingly complex concept. The article concludes that an authoritative definition of PPP – one that can encompass all the different variations of the concept currently in use – is not logically possible.     

抓住机遇促进发展 公路客运大有可为

分析我国公路客运良好的发展形势和存在的问题,指出公路客运面临的挑战和机遇,提出加强公路客运建设的几点意见,并展望公路客运广阔的发展前景.     

甘肃省小城镇发展模式问题探讨

本文旨在探讨甘肃省小城镇的发展模式问题 ,重点是在对甘肃小城镇发展现状进行总体评价的基础上 ,指出小城镇发展模式的本质是建设小康镇 ,并对小康镇的设计、规划及建设问题提出了自己的看法。     

突出主题 全面部署 实现国民经济的快速发展——学习《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十个五年计划的建议》的体会

党的十五届五中全会通过的《建议》的突出特点是明确提出。十五”期间把发展作为主题,为此,必须着重抓好经济结构调整、改革开放、科技进步和推进国民经济与社会信息化等几个重点环节。同时,还应当大力发展教育事业,努力扩大就业,保持社会稳定,这是加快经济发展的基础与保证。     

发展理论的人类需求分析

随着社会经济的发展,人类已经突破了对物质的单一追求,而向更高目标迈进,尤其在世界经济一体化的大趋势下,人类对生态需求、精神需求的阈值更高.因此,构建21世纪的需求发展理论应在原来以经济为核心指标的基础上拓展,加入生态、精神需求的内容.只有三位一体协调发展,人类社会才不至于因某一方面的失衡而遭受毁灭性的打击,也才能迈向可持续发展的健康之路.