The 2015 welfare reform of the National Basic Livelihood Security System in South Korea: Effects on economic outcomes

In July 2015, South Korea’s National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS) was reformed for the purposes of eliminating welfare blind spots and reducing poverty. The reform is expected to affect the recipients’ economic behaviours and choices. In this study, we used changes in benefits and eligibility for the NBLSS under the customised benefit system to identify the effects of the change in the NBLSS on a proposed set of economic outcomes – income, labour supply, consumption, savings, poverty reduction. To estimate the effects, we used data from the 10th–12th waves of the Korea Welfare Panel Study and employed a difference‐in‐differences framework integrated with the propensity scores. We found that the NBLSS helps the poor to reduce financial and material hardships through income and consumption increments, but that it does not provide disincentives to the recipients from participating in the labour market or from saving.     

社会共治视角下食品安全风险交流机制研究

日本食品安全风险交流以双向沟通机制、风险素养培养机制和国际合作机制为核心,形成了政府主导下多元主体参与的社会共治格局。但在核泄漏事故中仍呈现出交流手段陈旧,交流方案滞后,专家与公众的风险认知差等问题。我国应在总结日本经验的基础上,以“社会共治”理念为引导,通过明确风险交流主体的定位,搭建多样化信息沟通平台,建立风险交流公众参与机制,加强风险交流的国际合作来推进食品安全风险交流机制的建立。     

Pivot to Telehealth: Narrative Reflections on Circle of Security Parenting Groups during COVID‐19

In response to COVID‐19 hygiene and physical distancing restrictions, our service rapidly shifted to delivering Circle of Security‐Parenting? (COS‐P) groups via telehealth. In this article we report the perspectives and experiences of the group facilitator and the parents who received the intervention during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We use semi‐structured, qualitative interviews to explore the advantages, challenges, and positive impacts of the online parenting group from the perspectives of the group leader and the five group participants. Participants’ narrative reflections show that they were satisfied with the convenient and engaging online delivery of the program and would recommend it to other parents. Parents reported significant improvements in their parenting and greater awareness of their strengths and struggles. The online delivery of COS‐P resulted in more efficient service delivery, greater attendance rates, and adherence to the model. The stressors on the experienced facilitator, due to the abrupt transition and multiple technical and communication challenges, may have been mitigated by supervisor and collegial support, as well as careful preparation for herself and the participants. Future research should investigate the effectiveness of online versus face‐to‐face delivery of the intervention, including what works for whom.     

The politics of gender in the UN Security Council resolutions on women,peace and security

Women’s groups have worked diligently to place gender and women’s vulnerability on the transnational security agenda. This article departs from the idea that negotiating and codifying gender and women’s vulnerability in terms of security represent a challenge to mainstream security contexts. By contrasting the UN Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security with feminist theory, this article aims to analyze what is considered to be threatened when women’s vulnerability is negotiated. The article identifies two approaches to the gender/security nexus: gendering security, which involves introducing ideas regarding gender-sensitive policies and equal representation, and securitizing gender, which proceeds by locating rape and sexual violence in the context of war regulations. We demonstrate that, although these measures are encouraged with reference to women’s vulnerability, they serve to legitimize war and the male soldier and both approaches depoliticize gender relations.     

残疾儿童社会保障制度的研究

目前，政府通过发展社会保障以增进社会和谐的政策方向基本确立，倡导残疾儿童社会保障制度的适度公正机制是基于经济发展和现代社会平等两者之间的权衡。目的是使社会成员都能够普遍以适度标准不断享受经济社会发展的成果，从而有效地实现社会整合。我国已经初步具备实现残疾儿童社会保障制度的适度公正目标的条件，基于此目标，残疾儿童的社会保障制度仍存在以下制约瓶颈：相关社会保障制度建设法规滞后；政府保障主体地位缺失，财政经费投入不足；残疾儿童参与社会保障层次低、覆盖面窄；保障政策执行部门行政多头管理。因此，残疾儿童社会保障制度的制度设计需要着重于：保持经济发展水平下残疾儿童保障支付享受标准；倡导公正和能动的残疾儿童权利保障价值取向：界定政府责任边界和立法，广泛动员社会力量；整合政府部门残疾儿童社会保障资源。     

Social insurance and children: The relationship between Social Security,economic well-being,and family context among child recipients

The relationship between social insurance, which provides families protection against certain risks, and child economic security is understudied. Using the 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) matched to Social Security Administration benefit records, this article investigates the economic welfare effects of the child component of the US Social Security program. We examine how the poverty rate of child beneficiaries would change, absent Social Security income, and how heavily the family incomes of these children rely on it, by family characteristics. Our findings reveal that Social Security plays an important role in mitigating economic insecurity among children deprived of a wage-earning parent through disability, death, or retirement. Family structure, earnings, and employment status are identified as key factors moderating the effect of Social Security on child recipients’ financial circumstance.     

中国与中亚关系的发展趋势

中国和中亚国家同为转型中的国家,面临着发展和稳定两大问题,都在加快制度变革,实现地区政治、经济、社会可持续发展：积极扩大各方面的合作领域,提升国际影响力和“话语权”,双方有合作的基础和意愿,在“和谐世界”外交理念下双方关系深化发展。上海合作组织也为双方的进一步深入合作提供了机制和平台。目前,在双方的共同努力下,中国与中亚的关系发展势头良好。     

中东恐怖主义、全球治理与中国的反恐政策

中东反恐斗争是国际反恐中最关键、最具影响的组成部分,也是国际社会面临的全球治理问题之一。它与当代的国际体系转型和政治经济秩序的重建分不开,又同中东伊斯兰国家在经济全球化深入推进的形势下,如何处理现代化进程中的改革与发展、实现制度变迁和社会转型直接相关。从中东恐怖主义产生的根源、发展和蔓延的轨迹看,中东恐怖主义既蕴含着错综复杂的历史、社会、宗教、民族等内部因素,也掺杂着外来侵略、占领、干涉以及地区国家之间领土、资源和利益等方面的矛盾和冲突等外部环境因素。中国的反恐政策既出于保护海外利益的需要,也折射了中国独特的全球治理理念和治理模式。     

基于组织视角的安全蔬菜生产者道德风险分析——以江苏省为例

从农业生产组织的视角,通过对江苏省490户安全蔬菜生产农户的调查,运用Logistic二元选择模型对影响生产者道德风险的因素进行了分析。研究结果表明,安全蔬菜生产农户参加的农业生产组织的类型、组织对农户生产安全蔬菜的检查、组织对农户农药购买和农药使用情况的监管、组织对农户违规生产的处罚以及处罚的严格度均对农户道德风险的防范有显著影响。     

统筹城乡医疗保障制度试点城市的比较——以昆山、成都和重庆市为例

从制度和经济基础两个方面,对昆山、成都和重庆的统筹城乡医疗保障建设进行比较分析可以看出,昆山市实行的全民医保政策在筹资标准、财政补助、管理机构、医疗待遇等方面都实现了统一,成都和重庆则将医保缴费标准分为几个档次,不同的缴费标准享受不同的待遇水平。据此指出不同城市应该根据不同城市特点和经济水平,选择不同的统筹模式,最终实现城乡医疗保障一体化。