De-canting ‘Trafficking in Human Beings’, Re-centring the State

Contemporary liberal states are eager to combat ‘human trafficking’, which state actors describe as ‘the scourge of modern slavery’ and a violation of human rights. The same states are also depriving migrants of their freedom on an unprecedented scale through immigration detention, forcibly moving them across borders through deportation, and sustaining a flourishing industry in the prevention and control of human movement. This is not a paradox. The ambition to eradicate ‘slavery’, as much as the desire to severely restrict freedom of movement, reflects a concern to preserve and extend state powers, in particular its monopoly on violence and on the control of mobility.     

司法令状思考四题

建立司法令状制度是司法界的一贯主张。司法令状不仅适用于刑事诉讼领域,同样也适用于其他领域。司法令状的实践运行表明,其本质是行为的合理性。事实上,司法令状远没有达到大多数人所宣称的那种功能,执行官员也总是在想方设法逃避适用司法令状,如紧急情况下的搜查、扣押或逮捕等。因此,我国进行司法令状制度设计时应借鉴以往的经验,做到有的放矢。     

死亡人体组织中rRNA亚基的稳定性及影响因素评价

目的探讨人尸体组织中rRNA亚基表达水平的稳定性及影响因素。方法选取3例成人、3例婴幼儿大脑皮质和脾组织,在尸检即刻、48、72、96、120、144、168、192、216、240h,采用实时荧光定量RT-PCR法检测5s、5.8s、18s、28s rRNA的表达水平。结果两个年龄组两种组织中4种rRNA亚基表达量相比较均显示有差异(P0.05)。同种组织比较:脑组织中两个年龄组最后一个时间点与第一时间点4种rRNA亚基的表达量均有差异(P0.05),其他各时间点与第一时间点无显著性差异(P0.05);脾组织中婴幼儿5s rRNA在最后一个时间点,其余3种rRNA亚基最后两个时间点与第一时间点比较有差异(P0.05);成人5s rRNA最后一个时间点,5.8s rRNA亚基最后两个时间与第一时间点比较差异(P0.05),其余两种亚基各时间点与第一时间点相比较均无差异(P0.05)。结论尸体组织中rRNA亚基表达稳定性好,适于作为晚期死亡时间推断的内参基因使用,但需注意指标、组织和年龄段差异性。     

过度教育对主观幸福感影响的实证研究

过度教育造成了新时期劳动力市场中出现的劳动者"怀才不遇"的现象,但过度教育对劳动者主观幸福感是否有影响尚无定论。在既有的从过度教育,教育、工作匹配与主观幸福感关系的研究回顾基础上,利用2013年中国综合社会调查数据(CGSS)建立定序回归模型发现,无论以虚拟变量还是以连续变量表示,过度教育都会对居民主观幸福感有显著的负效应,这也解决了估计结果的稳健性问题。此外,过度教育对主观幸福感除了有直接效应之外,还会通过影响相对社会等级、绝对收入等中介变量对主观幸福感产生间接影响,但是直接效应仍占主导。因此,应保障和完善劳动力市场的良性发育,促使高学历人才有效流动和岗位匹配,提升他们的幸福感。     

High food prices in urban Cameroon: coping strategies and suggested policy actions

Governments tend to focus on short-term policies to address the immediate effects of high food prices when spikes occur, while in the long term, urban residents are left to their own devices struggling to ensure adequate household food consumption. Using data collected in three cities in Cameroon among 300 households, this article documents participants’ opinions on appropriate policies to address high food prices as well as how households cope with chronic high food prices. It emphasises the importance of long-term government strategies such as improved farm-to-market roads and agricultural sector supports as means to improve food security.     

Power relations? What power relations? The de-politicising conceptualisation of development of the UNDP

The UN′s Sustainable Development Goals agenda points far into 2030, which shows that its post-war development endeavour is not functioning effectively. This article implements a discourse analysis of the UN Development Programme′s (UNDP) Human Development Reports (HDR) and exposes their internal contradictions. This analysis enables a critical reflection on the UNDP′s political position: its reports conceal the political causes of underdevelopment. By concealing the antagonistic/conflictual dimension of social issues – poverty, inequality, and exclusion – the UNDP naturalises the actual neoliberal order. The HDR turns political problems into technical issues; according to this approach, no power relations have to be changed in order to overcome underdevelopment.     

我国自然资源德用权流转的法律规制及完善

自然资源是物,自然资源使用权是用益物权,其流转可实现对其的永续利用。我国自然资源使用权流转在可交易的权利类型,流转的主体资格和法律条件,审批登记制度,价值评估制度,监督管理等方面存在不足。我国法律应在扩大可交易的自然资源使用权类型的范围,严格主体的市场准入条件,完善权属登记制度,全面实行开发利用规划,建立与之相适应的司法制度,采取环保激励措施等方面予以完善。     

发挥人才资源优势 推动长吉图开发开放先导区的发展

长吉图开发开放先导区是吉林省在振兴东北老工业基地的基础上迎来的又一新机遇和新挑战,而人才是生产发展的第一资源。本文在分析了长吉图开发开放先导区战略规划目的的基础上,阐述了目前长吉图开发开放先导区人才发展的现状及存在的问题,并提出了解决对策。以便更好地运用人才资源推进长吉图开发开放先导区的建设和发展。     

基于人力资本的大湄公河次区域人力资源开发研究

现代新经济增长理论和实践已经证明,人力资本是经济增长的源泉,而人力资本的形成离不开人力资源开发活动。大湄公河次区域在世界区域竞争加强的背景下需要加快发展,应该增强参与各方的合作与信任意识,加强对人力资源开发工作的认识,扩大开发资金的来源,改变现行的项目导向为条约机制的管理模式。     

Meeting the Dalai Lama and perceptions of democracy in China: a quasi-natural experiment

How does the international human rights community affect the likelihood of democratization? Scholarship on Chinese citizens’ preferences about their political system has not explored the importance of the external environment, perhaps surprising given the extensive foreign pressure on China’s authoritarian system over the last 30 years. I use a quasi-natural experiment around the meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama in 2011 to examine the impact of foreign pressure on citizens’ perceptions of democracy in China in real time. I show that the meeting significantly increased the Chinese public’s belief that their country is democratic, with those of above average patriotism over 11 percentage points more likely to believe China is democratic in the five days following the meeting than before. The findings suggest that some kinds of external pressure may help to increase satisfaction with authoritarian rule, ultimately boosting autocrats’ ability to hold on to power.