西藏居民小康消费进程及其发展趋势研究

随着西藏经济快速发展,西藏居民的消费水平在不断提高,消费结构逐步从"总体小康型"向"全面小康型"转变,享受资料、发展资料越来越受到人们的青睐,但是由于受经济水平的影响,西藏居民的整体消费水平还比较低。研究西藏居民小康消费进程及其发展趋势,对拓宽消费品市场渠道,确定经济发展战略,适时调整和正确引导居民消费方向,促进全面建设小康社会和经济增长具有重大意义。     

西藏居民消费影响因素的实证分析

基于1994～2010年居民消费支出和城乡居民收入及结构、社会保障支出人均数据以及物价、利率的统计数据,对西藏居民消费与其影响因素进行了实证分析,结果表明,从长期来看,西藏城镇居民收入对消费的影响比农民收入作用大,城乡居民持久收入对消费起着决定性作用,社会保障对消费有很强的促进作用,物价的上升对消费有抑制作用,名义利率的变动对居民消费的影响具有不确定性。基于此,应该增加城乡居民特别是低收入群体的收入,扩大社会保障覆盖范围和提高社会保障水平,防止市场供应脱销断档、物价过快上涨,不断发展金融市场,从而促进西藏居民消费。     

西藏城镇居民消费结构分析

近几年西藏城镇居民的消费水平在不断提高,消费结构渐趋合理。享受资料、发展资料越来越受到人们的青睐。但是由于受经济水平的制约,西藏城镇居民整体消费水平仍比较低。研究分析城镇居民消费结构及特征,对拓宽消费品市场渠道、确定经济发展战略、适时调整和正确引导居民消费方向、促进经济增长具有重大意义。     

居民消费对西藏经济周期的影响分析

文章通过对西藏居民消费、城镇居民消费和农村居民消费的消费增长周期分析,以各周期中消费增长与经济增长的相关性为视角,并与全国平均水平进行比较,得出西藏居民消费增长对西藏经济增长的影响趋势与全国不完全一致,且影响程度比全国弱,得出西藏消费需求增长与经济增长有矛盾性的一面,并提出了对应的措施.     

教育、卫生、社会保障等公共支出对居民消费率的影响——以内蒙古自治区为例

近十年来,我国居民消费率远低于世界平均水平,并逐渐成为制约经济增长和人民生活水平同步提高的瓶颈；以内蒙古自治区为例,通过理论分析和实证研究论证了教育、卫生、社会保障等公共支出对少数民族群众消费率的影响:即在其他影响因素不变的情况下,随着公共卫生支出的增加,居民消费率呈先升后降趋势；与之同步,社会保障等公共支出也有类似状...     

耐心等待股市底部

今年5月份,居民消费价格指数CPI同比增长5.5%,工业生产者出厂价格PPI同比增长6.8%,根据对经济数据和股市历史的分析,我们可以相信——股市底部很快就将到来。自1990年1月以来,CPI从低位破5%后,     

论中国“灰色消费”的危害及其对策

消费是整个人类社会赖以生存和可持续发展的前提条件,消费活动在人类社会化生产及人类社会生活中具有重要的地位。然而,在当代社会中,随着人类消费量的日益增长,消费区域的不断扩张和消费水平的提高,也导致了生态环境的恶化、人价值观的偏离、社会矛盾的激化。中国改革开放以来,在经济社会快速发展、人们的消费水平大幅度提高、人民的消费方式发生了重大转变的同时,西方一些不良消费观念对中国消费者的消费行为也产生了许多不良影响,特别是＂灰色消费＂行为的迅速蔓延,引发了许多经济社会问题。可见,消费过程已经不是一个单纯的经济问题,因而,研究消费问题特别是研究当前中国＂灰色消费＂问题,具有重要的理论与实践价值。     

中国能源消费现状及能源需求预测

能源是一个国家经济增长和社会发展的重要物质基础,能源短缺曾长期制约我国经济的发展。经济的可持续发展对于合理的能源生产与消费提出了更高的要求。本文从增长迅速的能源消费量、能源的消费结构以煤为主和日趋严峻的中国能源进口依存度三个方面阐述了我国能源消费的现状;并用线性回归模型对我国能源需求进行了预测。     

“十五”时期西藏经济运行特点及2006年趋势分析

定量与定性分析结果表明,“十五”时期西藏经济运行特点明显:高位运行但仍有较大增长潜力;资本投入、第三产业是经济增长的决定性因素,而技术进步的贡献率大幅下降,工业还没能成为有力的增长点;固定资产形成的拉动力量增大,居民消费贡献稳定;区域经济呈现新格局,城镇在经济集聚中作用日益突出。还存在增长方式粗放,效率较低;培育自我发展能力进展缓慢;需求结构失调,农牧民消费乏力,社会投资仍未启动等问题。文章预测了2006年经济运行趋势,提出以市场为导向推进产业结构调整,扩大最终需求,提高科技水平,加速培育区域经济新格局等政策建议。     

消费伦理若干问题初探

消费行为具有一定的经济论据解释与相关的道德评价,消费源于人的欲望,消费应该适度,政府要对消费发挥积极的政策引导作用.     

Identity in old clothes: the socio-cultural dynamics of second-hand clothing in Irbid,Jordan

This paper investigates the socio-cultural dynamics underlying the consumption of second-hand clothing (al-Balih) in Irbid city, northern Jordan. It primarily examines the various images and meanings that consumers attach to used clothes imported primarily from the West. Al-Balih is conceived of as a social space where multiple imaginations and images meet and interact. Put another way, it tends to blur the conventional socio-economic distinctions that mark Jordanian society. In light of the recent economic hardship that Jordanians have faced due to the late alarming rise in most commodity prices, more people are turning to shopping at second-hand stores. The growth of the second-hand clothing trade can be seen as a testament to the strong demand by consumers for varied and inexpensive products. The paper adopts an anthropological framework in terms of its methodology and analysis. Ethnographic data were collected primarily through conducting in-depth interviews with consumers and shops owners.     

收入分配视角下的青海投资拉动型经济增长研究

近几年,青海省形成了以投资拉动型为主的经济增长模式.从收入分配的角度分析,本文得出近年来高储蓄带来的高投资与初次分配中收入分配机制未理顺是导致这种以投资拉动为主经济增长模式形成的原因,并在此基础上提出了相关措施与建议.     

冰下水体沉积物中有机物、细菌及其耗氧速率的研究

冰下水体沉积物中含有丰富的有机质（１１．５％）和细菌（１２．７×１０７个／克）。其耗氧速率比春、夏、秋三季池塘底泥的耗氧速率低得多。沉积物中有机物含量与细菌数量和耗氧速率之间呈正相关。     

‘Presentable’: the body and neoliberal subjecthood in contemporary India

The opening up of the Indian economy through a series of neoliberal reforms since 1991 ushered in processes of globalization that have led to a rapidly changing socio-cultural environment in India. Economic growth, globalizing discourses, and new consumer choices have driven desires for new global-yet-Indian identities. An emerging consumer agency has allowed for the embodiment and performance of these identities at the site of the body, even as new spaces of consumption have necessitated new bodily dispositions and practices. In this paper, I focus on how access to new commodities and discourses has affected understandings of the modern Indian body. In particular, I concentrate on appearance and the notion of exercising consumer agency to be ‘presentable’ as a lens through which to examine broader aspects of the body in the creation of neoliberal subjects in India.     

More than just shopping: Ethnic majority consumers and cosmopolitanism in immigrant grocery shops

This paper explores ethnic majority consumption practices in immigrant economies. Drawing on recent debates on cosmopolitanism, we focus on the question of how the use of immigrant shops by members of the ethnic majority is intertwined with the erosion and/or the (re)production of symbolic boundaries. We conducted 31 in-depth interviews and 15 go-alongs with consumers in immigrant grocery shops in Vienna. Our findings show how consumption is based upon and shaped by the various ways consumers attribute meaning to the shops, the products on offer as well as their shopping experiences. We identified five different types of consumption: consuming nostalgia, consuming patronage, consuming change, consuming alterity and consuming diversity. However, we only consider the latter two as cosmopolitan consumption in a narrower sense. We show that within these types, the expression of openness towards ‘the other’ constitutes a form of cultural capital displayed by members of the privileged classes. The article argues in favour of a more comprehensive understanding of consumption practices in immigrant economies. This encompasses that not every act of shopping in immigrant businesses is cosmopolitan and that research is called to consider that the various types of consumption effect boundaries along ethnicity and class in manifold ways.     

On the back of blackness: contemporary Canadian blackface and the consumptive production of post-racialist,white Canadian subjects

This article is based on a qualitative research project examining the phenomenon of contemporary Canadian blackface. It addresses the discursive juxtaposition of blackface with the claim to Canadian racial progressiveness that typically attends public debates about blackface. I argue that blackface and the discourses defending it are forms of racial consumption through which ostensibly progressive white subjectivities are secured. I further argue that contemporary Canadian blackface discourse is postracialist in its ability to juxtapose racist expression with claims of racial transcendence, and I identify this postracialism as a long-standing feature of Canadian national narratives that are partially constructed through revisionist understandings of the nation’s relationship to blackness, and against an ostensibly more virile racism in the US. This analysis reminds us of the symbiotic relationship between racial fetishization/fascination as found in contemporary blackface, the foundational white supremacy of the Canadian settler-colonial context, and the always uneven terms upon which blackness is included in Canada. It clarifies what is at stake for Canadians who participate in blackface and in defending it, and helps us to understand the pedagogical import of both blackface and Canadian egalitarianism for perpetuating anti-blackness in Canada.     

From Waverley to Outlander: reinforcing Scottish diasporic identity through book consumption

ABSTRACT

Books are arguably fundamental to national identity and scholars across various theoretical perspectives perceive books as being integral to the creation, perpetuation, and myths and symbols of nations. This article uses interview data with leaders of Scottish heritage organizations to investigate the role of books in Scottish diasporic identity. This article concludes that books can be a binding force in diaspora communities, and lived diasporic Scots and ancestral Scots consume different types of Scottish books that reflect personalization of myths and symbols presented in these books.     

Shopping for identity: articulations of gender,race and class by critical consumers

This article discusses a study which explored shopping as a process of incidental adult learning about consumption, globalization and citizenship among self-identified critical shoppers in Vancouver, Canada. The author focuses on participants' comments about social identity, especially in terms of gender, race and class. Reflecting current concerns, many participants noted that the environment and (un)fair trade influenced their shopping practices, and helped them understand themselves in the context of a ‘multicultural’ society and a ‘globalized’ world. This article borrows from the jargon of municipal recycling programs, part of a critical consumption discourse, in outlining how participants' comments seem to ‘reduce,’ ‘reuse,’ and/or ‘recycle’ hegemonic notions of gender, race and class. Working from a neo-Gramscian perspective, the author uses this metaphor to explore both the tendency to reiterate an understanding of gender, race and class as essentialized characteristics and attempt to resist that simplistic understanding.     

Dignity,happiness and being able to live a ‘normal life’ in the UK – an examination of post-accession Polish migrants' transnational autobiographical fields

This article examines data from a qualitative study of post-accession Polish migrants living in the UK. We examine themes from our interviews such as ‘dignity’, ‘normality’, ‘happiness’ and the ‘affordability’ and ‘ease’ of life in the UK (compared to Poland). We focus on the autobiographical or intra-personal discursive practices that define what Habib calls migrants' continuing relationship with their ‘homeland’. We draw on Emirbayer and Mische's analysis of the relationship between ‘agency’ and what they call ‘embedded temporalities’ to examine the interaction between our participants' recollections of life in Poland and their evaluation of their present lives in the UK in order to examine the impact of these on their future plans (to stay in the UK or return to Poland). We locate this analysis in what we call a transnational autobiographical field which is a modification of what Levitt and Glick Schiller call a transnational social field. Rather than examine, for example, how decisions to migrate, settle and re-migrate are embedded in inter or trans-personal social relations and networks, in this article we examine the self-dynamics associated with our participants' articulation of their intra-personal and autobiographical embedded temporalities. Our argument is that articulations of individuals' pasts, presents and anticipated futures are also significant factors shaping their migration, settlement, and re-migration decisions.