县级农业信息化对农民增收的作用及发展思路——以阳朔县为例

农业信息化可以提高农业生产和经营管理水平,减少市场交易风险,提高农业市场流通效率,加快农业生产技术传播、推广和农业科技人才的培养,对农民增收起到显著作用,而数字村镇的建设是探索县级农业信息化的一条新路子。县级农业信息化今后的发展思路应以农业信息的获取、及时处理和计算机网络建设、应用这两个方面为突破口。     

Local aid workers in the digital humanitarian project: between “second class citizens” and “entrepreneurial survivors”

This paper examines the experiences of Filipino workers recruited for technology and communications work by international aid agencies involved in the Typhoon Haiyan response. Filipino workers, many of whom were personally coping with the social and economic impact of this disaster, were hired on short-term contracts to test and implement various digital humanitarian innovations such as feedback and hazard mapping technological platforms. These workers were doubly marginalized: first, as tech workers whose work was viewed by aid officers on the ground as less substantial than that of food or shelter programs; and second, as local voices often drowned out by national and international colleagues. Moving beyond the usual figure of the cosmopolitan and adventure-seeking Western humanitarian acting on distant suffering, this paper draws attention to local aid workers’ aspirations for personal and professional mobility as they seize novel opportunities opened up by the digital humanitarian agenda. It outlines how the digital humanitarian project’s ambition to facilitate the inclusion of disaster-affected communities is fundamentally undermined by labor arrangements that doubly marginalize local aid workers.     

Capturing Brazilian society in movement: from cordiality to circulation and “spaces between” in Maria Augusta Ramos’s Futuro junho (2015)

ABSTRACT

This article analyses Maria Augusta Ramos’s 2015 observational documentary Futuro junho (Future June), filmed in the Brazilian city of São Paulo in the lead-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Taking as its starting point a connection, established by one of the film’s four main “characters,” or subjects, between Brazilian historian Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s influential work on cordiality and the idea of circulation between public and private spheres, the article explores how circulation (economic, urban, media, and cultural) is portrayed in the documentary, as well as how it foregrounds both spatial and temporal movements. This is complemented by a discussion of the film’s own circulation through attention to critical reviews which have debated the film’s success in documenting, in a timely way, a national conjuncture characterised by crisis and conflict as well as unpredictability and rapid change. The article argues that by imbricating and intertwining multiple cultures of circulation, and by drawing attention to the varied economic and urban experiences of its characters and the spaces between them, Futuro junho captures a Brazil in flux.     

Endogenizing Labor Mobility: A Partisan Politics Explanation

Much of the existing literature shows that factor mobility across industries has important political economic implications but that it is exogenous to the political process. This article argues that labor’s mobility across industries can be endogenous to changes of power relations due to partisan reasons. Based on a general equilibrium model, the prediction is that, when unions are decentralized, governments led by left-wing parties seek and obtain higher labor mobility than do governments led by rightist parties. However, as unions become more centralized, this distinction becomes less clear-cut. Time series cross-sectional analyses of OECD countries from 1960 to 1999 support this prediction and the endogenous labor mobility hypothesis.     

The Direction of the Reform of the State-owned Enterprise: Democratic Governance and Fair Salary

The reform of the state-owned enterprises cannot simply copy the governance model of European and American corporations, but should create a new-type labor relations using the unique advantage, which includes the building of democratic management system and fair salary system. As for the reasons: (1) based on the view of contractarianism, the enterprise itself belongs to all members, and there exists equal members relationship instead of employment relationship. As a result, enterprise should implement the common management system according to the contract rules; (2) the state-owned enterprise is not such a democratic organization which is governed completely by the internal, but should accept social regulations and supervision which is outside the enterprise, especially the need to establish a rational system of income distribution.     

浅析我国保险公司上市的收益与风险

分析我国保险上市的可行性,主要分析上市给保险公司带来的增强承保能力、偿付能力、资本运营、改制等方面的收益,以及财务风险、经营与管理风险和系统风险。收益和风险都不是绝对的,保险公司只有充分利用上市带来的机遇,真正从公司的长远发展和上市的最终目标出发,主动转换角色与经营理念,才能规避风险,获得收益。     

中国农村居民医疗保健消费需求实证分析

该文以2003-2010年中国统计年鉴为基础,利用扩展线性支出系统模型（ELES）,并借助于SPSS13.0统计软件对2002-2009年中国农村居民各项消费的边际消费倾向、需求收入弹性、基本需求进行了动态分析。结果表明,中国农村居民各项消费支出与纯收入之间确实存在着显著的线性相关关系;农村低收入户尚未满足基本需求,需要社会救济,收入差距在进一步扩大,且农村居民在满足基本需求后,用于提高生活质量的消费比例在不断下降。     

“月饼税”的征收、争议和解决途径分析

中秋节是中国的传统节日,作为中秋节的传统美食,香甜的月饼寄托着中华民族对美好生活的无限憧憬。然而,今年中秋节的＂月饼税＂却引发了各家媒体及普通老百姓的广泛关注和热议。本文针对这一社会生活热点问题,介绍＂月饼税＂的由来、分析其法律依据、争议产生的原因与探索解决争议的途径。     

文化消费与居民收入的敏感性关系分析——基于省际面板数据的实证研究

我国学者将西方消费函数理论应用于解释转型时期中国消费者的行为,并取得了丰富的研究成果.实证研究表明,在我国现阶段,居民消费存在着“过度敏感性”的特征.本文将西方消费理论应用于我国文化消费的研究中,利用我国2002-2011年的省际面板数据展开实证分析,得出我国城乡居民的文化消费确实存在“过度敏感性”的特征,且城镇居民的敏感系数高于农村居民.鉴于此,政府应该从提高居民收入水平,培育文化消费主体以及统筹城乡文化产业发展等方面着手,促进居民文化消费能力的提高.     

Contagious insecurity: war,SARS and global air mobility

Neglect of the cross-cutting confluences between different domains of security can lead to insular notions of global security as well as to lost opportunities for security sensitive contributions to the adjoining issue areas. This article attempts to overview the patterns of interactions during three security scenarios of early 2003: wars, as, for example, the War against Terror and the war in Iraq; pandemics such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); and air mobility. The overview approach is meant to draw attention to the synoptic interplay between global security scenarios that go beyond the usual disciplinary and conceptual boundaries separating security studies, global health and mobility infrastructures. How does the context of war amplify other security concerns? What were the synoptic interactions within temporally situated ‘bundles’ of security-related concerns? How did global air mobility politics and pandemic politics construct their combined security problematiques? The main research findings point to the relatively unique yet momentary qualities of the emergent nexus of security scenarios. This sheds light on the difficulties of managing pandemic diseases as purely epidemiological processes, on the complexities of securing global air mobility networks, and on how tense situations are prone to lead to speculative projections as people's fears find different somatic, material and political manifestations. The primary material for the textual analysis is provided by World Health Organization's SARS chronology.