Financial policy innovation for social change: a case study of China's green credit policy

Financial policy impacts on a range of social issues such as poverty alleviation, education, pollution control, etc. Making good use of financial policy and applying innovation to existing financial systems can generate positive outcomes for society. This article is to discuss the case of green credit policy in China. This policy was jointly announced in 2007 by financial and environmental regulators. According to this policy, banks were encouraged to give more loans to environmental friendly companies than to others. Such policy has made great progress, and it became a more formal document entitled ‘Green Credit Guideline’ in 2012. This guideline included a comprehensive definition on green credit and specified several requirements at practical levels. Despite the great success, challenges of implementing such policy still remain. First, information about corporate environmental performance is insufficient; second, market incentives for green credit policy are not high enough; third, most banking staff lack knowledge and capacity to handle environmental affairs. Nevertheless, this case still sheds light on how financial policy innovation drives social changes. The key is to identify the connection between social issues and financial issues, and then to make a business case that creates pressures or incentives for financial institutions. This requires a market where social and environmental cost is appropriately priced and internalized to those who generate it. Ideally, financial policies should help shape such a market so that society can share values created by financial institutions.     

南方谈话理论品质的三个维度——兼论其对共同富裕的启示

当前改革已进入攻坚阶段,重温邓小平南方谈话意义重大。应以宏观的视野对南方谈话进行整体性观照,从实践理性、辩证理性、价值理性三个维度准确把握其理论品质,这对当前实现共同富裕目标有着积极的启示意义。     

侵权法中的作为义务探究

国外立法例对侵权法中作为义务的规制模式不尽相同,中国台湾地区和大陆地区理论界对作为义务的研究在结合中国司法实践方面略显不足。对于侵权法中作为义务的探究,应当将国外立法例、中国理论界的研究成果与司法实践情况结合起来。中国侵权法中作为义务的设计应当遵循如下思路:无须在一般条款中明确作为义务;合同约定不应成为侵权法中作为义务的来源;不应当规定一般救助义务;作为义务来源应当具有层级性,且该层级性应当以重塑安全保障义务为中心。     

铁路总价承包合同管理存在的主要问题及对策

结合我国铁路总价承包合同执行现状，对铁路合同专用条款中存在的承发包双方法律地位不对等、工程款拨付比例不切实际、总承包风险费严重不足等主要不合理内容进行剖析，说明不合理的原因。对发包人处理正负量差的方式、工期调整产生的赶工费不能全额解决及部分变更设计在源头上得不到认可等在合同执行过程中存在的问题进行研究。简单分析产生不合理条款和合同执行不到位的主要原因。针对这些不合理条款，提出应对策略。     

基于B2C电子商务平台的营销策略对折中效应的影响研究

本文以B2C电子商务平台为依托,着重针对商家营销策略对消费者选择商品时所表现出的折中效应的影响进行研究。在对消费者网络购物中选择不同类型商品时是否存在折中效应进行检验的基础上,分类探讨了不同类型营销策略对不同类型商品折中效应的影响。结果显示,消费者在购买便利品或购物品时都表现出折中效应;且价格策略和促销策略都会弱化消费者选择便利品或购物品时所表现出的折中效应;相对购物品,消费者在购买便利品时,两类营销策略对折中效应的影响程度更大;当消费者购买便利品时,与促销策略相比,价格策略会在更大程度上影响折中效应。基于以上分析,B2C商家应加大对便利品销售采取价格策略的频率和力度;提高提示性、比较性信息的可信度。     

Changes in Family Relationships among Substance Abusing Runaway Adolescents: A Comparison between Family and Individual Therapies

Eligible adolescents (12–17 years old) were recruited from a short‐term crisis shelter for runaway adolescents in a large Midwestern city. Adolescents (N = 179) were randomly assigned to Ecologically‐Based Family Therapy (EBFT, n = 61), the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA, n = 57), or brief Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET, n = 61) with the primary focus on substance abuse. A significant increase in perceived family cohesion and a significant reduction in perceived family conflict were found among all treatment conditions from baseline to the 24‐month follow‐up. Adolescents who received EBFT demonstrated more improvement in family cohesion after treatment than those who received CRA or MET, and more reduction in family conflict during treatment than those who received MET.     

Welfare Programme Participation and the Wellbeing of Non-local Rural Migrants in Metropolitan China: A Social Exclusion Perspective

Social Indicators Research - China has seen an unprecedented increase in rural-to-urban migrants in the last three decades, and the extension of welfare programmes to these migrants has been a...     

Educational gradient of health in rural China

The aim of this paper is to examine whether and how rural residents’ educational attainment is associated with their self-rated health in China. Taking advantage of the National Exercise Facility Survey that was collected between December 2015 and March 2016, we find that educational attainment has a significant and positive correlation with self-rated health, net of the effects of age, gender, and geographical region. This correlation is mediated by factors such as perceived importance of exercise and healthy lifestyle. Relatively, people’s cognitive knowledge about health-related information and material resource access fail to play a significant mediating role. The findings highlight the non-material and non-cognitive attributes of educational attainment in shaping the gradient of health in the rural setting of China. Interventions that expand formal education to the mass and optimize teaching contents may offer an effective means to balance the health gradient.