The importance of solving the employment problems by nongovernmental economy in China has aroused the concern of many scholars widely. However, few literatures could be found to deal with the impacts on nonagricultura...The importance of solving the employment problems by nongovernmental economy in China has aroused the concern of many scholars widely. However, few literatures could be found to deal with the impacts on nonagricultural employment growth in China by nongovernmental economy from several levels such as the whole nation, urban and rural. Based on the research accessed on the relationships between nongovernmental economy and em-ployment, the impacts of the development of nongovernmental economy on non-agricultural employment growth in China are emphasized in this paper. Taking time series data of non-agricultural employment in China’s different economy types in 1992–2005 as study objects, by establishing econometric re-gression models, some meaningful points are found as follows, the impacts of nongovernmental economy on the nonagricultural employment in either national or urban-rural level are rather sig-nificant although their impacts’ degrees are different. Based on the research findings above, some countermeasures are proposed to accelerate the nongovernmental economic development and im-prove its ability to absorb nonagricultural employment.展开更多
On March 11th 2005, the first flight of nongovernmental aviation company means the situation that state capital controls the whole Chinese civil aviation industry has been broken. The nongovernmental aviation companie...On March 11th 2005, the first flight of nongovernmental aviation company means the situation that state capital controls the whole Chinese civil aviation industry has been broken. The nongovernmental aviation companies must face financing problem during their growing process unavoidably. Moreover, compared with other aviation companies in the world, the financing environment of nongovernmental aviation companies in China is very special. This paper has discussed the particularity of nongovernmental aviation companies＇ financing environment in China, and brought out some advice from the angles of government and nongovernmental aviation companies.展开更多
Purpose:China has a long history of private school education.Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China,nongovernmental education(private school education)once disappeared from Chinese society until its rev...Purpose:China has a long history of private school education.Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China,nongovernmental education(private school education)once disappeared from Chinese society until its revival following the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.With its development of more than four decades,nongovernmental education has become an important part of China’s educational system and is vigorously promoting the modernization progress of Chinese education.Design/Approach/Methods:Being different from the overseas private school education,which is mostly funded by donations,China’s nongovernmental education sector has operated on the basis of private capital investments and contributions,with the organizers(contributors)typically expecting economic returns.Marked by the introduction of regulations and policies for nongovernmental education around the year of 2016,China’s nongovernmental education sector officially entered a new era of registration,support,and regulation by category.Findings:The macroscopic policies of China’s nongovernmental education in new era present the following new characters:(Ⅰ)Emphasizing education provision as a public interest and comprehensively strengthening private school leadership;(Ⅱ)managing negative lists and broadening the means by which social forces participate in operating schools;(Ⅲ)implementing preferential policies for private schools through categories based on the principle of being fair but different;(Ⅳ)supporting the development of private schools with the goal of improving education quality;(Ⅴ)standardizing private schools’operating practices in order to promote healthy and orderly development.Originality/Value:The implementing of the new policies on nongovernmental education shall have significant impact on the development and reform of China’s nongovernmental education in the future:(1)The rapid development of nonprofit private schools due to government support;(2)for-profit private schools may face polarization in a fiercely competitive market environment;(3)heavy burden of categorizing and transferring existing stock of schools due to various historical and realistic constraints.展开更多
It was 9 am on Oct 18,2017.The19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.At the same time,Sarah Lande,an American woman in her 70s,was watching the live TV...It was 9 am on Oct 18,2017.The19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.At the same time,Sarah Lande,an American woman in her 70s,was watching the live TV broadcast thousands of miles away in a small town in Iowa.Lande was receiving a delegation of the Shanghai People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign展开更多
Recent literature dealing with nongovemmental organizations （NGOs） claims that NGOs have little incentive to base their decisions and strategies on local needs and instead are governed largely by their current and p...Recent literature dealing with nongovemmental organizations （NGOs） claims that NGOs have little incentive to base their decisions and strategies on local needs and instead are governed largely by their current and prospective donors （McGann ＆ Johnstone, 2006; Prakash ＆ Gugerty, 2010; Bollen et al., 2005）. To test this claim, I have created a quantitative experiment in the US and Uganda in which organizations were randomly assigned to a control group or one of four treatment groups based on the main stakeholders of the NGO market---donors, local government officials, project beneficiaries, and NGO peers. In each group, organizations were invited to take a survey and were told that the results of their survey would be published to one of these four stakeholder groups. Thus, differences in response rates between groups are attributed to differences in the degree of concern that NGOs felt about the opinions of a given stakeholder. I hypothesized that NGOs care more about the opinions of their donors than other stakeholder groups and found support for this hypothesis among NGOs in the US.展开更多
Background:National tuberculosis(TB)programs increasingly engage with international non-governmental organizations(INGOs),especially to provide TB care in complex settings where community involvement might be required...Background:National tuberculosis(TB)programs increasingly engage with international non-governmental organizations(INGOs),especially to provide TB care in complex settings where community involvement might be required.In Myanmar,however,there is limited data on how such INGO community-based programs are organized and how effective they are.In this study,we describe four INGO strategies for providing community-based TB care to hard-to-reach populations in Myanmar,and assess their contribution to TB case detection.Methods:We conducted a descriptive study using program data from four INGOs and the National TB Program(NTP)in 2013-2014.For each INGO,we extracted information on its approach and key activities,the number of presumptive TB cases referred and undergoing TB testing,and the number of patients diagnosed with TB and their treatment outcomes.The contribution of INGOs to TB diagnosis in their selected townships was calculated as the proportion of INGO-diagnosed new TB cases out of the total NTP-diagnosed new TB cases in the same townships.Results:All four INGOs implemented community-based TB care in challenging contexts,targeting migrants,post-conflict areas,the urban poor,and other vulnerable populations.Two recruited community volunteers via existing community health volunteers or health structures,one via existing community leaderships,and one directly involved TB infected/affected individuals.Two INGOs compensated volunteers via performance-based financing,and two provided financial and in-kind initiatives.All relied on NTP laboratories for diagnosis and TB drugs,but provided direct observation treatment support and treatment follow-up.A total of 21995 presumptive TB cases were referred for TB diagnosis,with 7383(34%)new TB cases diagnosed and almost all(98%)successfully treated.The four INGOs contributed to the detection of,on average,36%(7383/20663)of the total new TB cases in their respective townships(range:15-52%).Conclusion:Community-based TB care supported by INGOs successfully achieved TB case detection in hard-toreach and vulnerable populations.This is vital to achieving the World Health Organization End TB Strategy targets.Strategies to ensure sustainability of the programs should be explored,including the need for longer-term commitment of INGOs.展开更多
基金The paper was sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation for Key Projects （Grant No. 07＆ZD011）EU INCO-DEV （SUSDEV-CHINA） （Grant No. ICA4-CT-2002- 10004）.
文摘The importance of solving the employment problems by nongovernmental economy in China has aroused the concern of many scholars widely. However, few literatures could be found to deal with the impacts on nonagricultural employment growth in China by nongovernmental economy from several levels such as the whole nation, urban and rural. Based on the research accessed on the relationships between nongovernmental economy and em-ployment, the impacts of the development of nongovernmental economy on non-agricultural employment growth in China are emphasized in this paper. Taking time series data of non-agricultural employment in China’s different economy types in 1992–2005 as study objects, by establishing econometric re-gression models, some meaningful points are found as follows, the impacts of nongovernmental economy on the nonagricultural employment in either national or urban-rural level are rather sig-nificant although their impacts’ degrees are different. Based on the research findings above, some countermeasures are proposed to accelerate the nongovernmental economic development and im-prove its ability to absorb nonagricultural employment.
文摘On March 11th 2005, the first flight of nongovernmental aviation company means the situation that state capital controls the whole Chinese civil aviation industry has been broken. The nongovernmental aviation companies must face financing problem during their growing process unavoidably. Moreover, compared with other aviation companies in the world, the financing environment of nongovernmental aviation companies in China is very special. This paper has discussed the particularity of nongovernmental aviation companies＇ financing environment in China, and brought out some advice from the angles of government and nongovernmental aviation companies.
文摘Purpose:China has a long history of private school education.Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China,nongovernmental education(private school education)once disappeared from Chinese society until its revival following the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.With its development of more than four decades,nongovernmental education has become an important part of China’s educational system and is vigorously promoting the modernization progress of Chinese education.Design/Approach/Methods:Being different from the overseas private school education,which is mostly funded by donations,China’s nongovernmental education sector has operated on the basis of private capital investments and contributions,with the organizers(contributors)typically expecting economic returns.Marked by the introduction of regulations and policies for nongovernmental education around the year of 2016,China’s nongovernmental education sector officially entered a new era of registration,support,and regulation by category.Findings:The macroscopic policies of China’s nongovernmental education in new era present the following new characters:(Ⅰ)Emphasizing education provision as a public interest and comprehensively strengthening private school leadership;(Ⅱ)managing negative lists and broadening the means by which social forces participate in operating schools;(Ⅲ)implementing preferential policies for private schools through categories based on the principle of being fair but different;(Ⅳ)supporting the development of private schools with the goal of improving education quality;(Ⅴ)standardizing private schools’operating practices in order to promote healthy and orderly development.Originality/Value:The implementing of the new policies on nongovernmental education shall have significant impact on the development and reform of China’s nongovernmental education in the future:(1)The rapid development of nonprofit private schools due to government support;(2)for-profit private schools may face polarization in a fiercely competitive market environment;(3)heavy burden of categorizing and transferring existing stock of schools due to various historical and realistic constraints.
文摘It was 9 am on Oct 18,2017.The19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.At the same time,Sarah Lande,an American woman in her 70s,was watching the live TV broadcast thousands of miles away in a small town in Iowa.Lande was receiving a delegation of the Shanghai People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign
文摘Recent literature dealing with nongovemmental organizations （NGOs） claims that NGOs have little incentive to base their decisions and strategies on local needs and instead are governed largely by their current and prospective donors （McGann ＆ Johnstone, 2006; Prakash ＆ Gugerty, 2010; Bollen et al., 2005）. To test this claim, I have created a quantitative experiment in the US and Uganda in which organizations were randomly assigned to a control group or one of four treatment groups based on the main stakeholders of the NGO market---donors, local government officials, project beneficiaries, and NGO peers. In each group, organizations were invited to take a survey and were told that the results of their survey would be published to one of these four stakeholder groups. Thus, differences in response rates between groups are attributed to differences in the degree of concern that NGOs felt about the opinions of a given stakeholder. I hypothesized that NGOs care more about the opinions of their donors than other stakeholder groups and found support for this hypothesis among NGOs in the US.
基金This study was funded by the Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization(WHO/TDR)Impact Grant given to two TDR alumni from the DMRThe funders had no role in the study design,data collection and analysis,decision to publish,or preparation of the paper.
文摘Background:National tuberculosis(TB)programs increasingly engage with international non-governmental organizations(INGOs),especially to provide TB care in complex settings where community involvement might be required.In Myanmar,however,there is limited data on how such INGO community-based programs are organized and how effective they are.In this study,we describe four INGO strategies for providing community-based TB care to hard-to-reach populations in Myanmar,and assess their contribution to TB case detection.Methods:We conducted a descriptive study using program data from four INGOs and the National TB Program(NTP)in 2013-2014.For each INGO,we extracted information on its approach and key activities,the number of presumptive TB cases referred and undergoing TB testing,and the number of patients diagnosed with TB and their treatment outcomes.The contribution of INGOs to TB diagnosis in their selected townships was calculated as the proportion of INGO-diagnosed new TB cases out of the total NTP-diagnosed new TB cases in the same townships.Results:All four INGOs implemented community-based TB care in challenging contexts,targeting migrants,post-conflict areas,the urban poor,and other vulnerable populations.Two recruited community volunteers via existing community health volunteers or health structures,one via existing community leaderships,and one directly involved TB infected/affected individuals.Two INGOs compensated volunteers via performance-based financing,and two provided financial and in-kind initiatives.All relied on NTP laboratories for diagnosis and TB drugs,but provided direct observation treatment support and treatment follow-up.A total of 21995 presumptive TB cases were referred for TB diagnosis,with 7383(34%)new TB cases diagnosed and almost all(98%)successfully treated.The four INGOs contributed to the detection of,on average,36%(7383/20663)of the total new TB cases in their respective townships(range:15-52%).Conclusion:Community-based TB care supported by INGOs successfully achieved TB case detection in hard-toreach and vulnerable populations.This is vital to achieving the World Health Organization End TB Strategy targets.Strategies to ensure sustainability of the programs should be explored,including the need for longer-term commitment of INGOs.
