A Case of Sexual Abuse by a Traditional Faith Healer: Are There Potential Preventions?

Adolescent sexual abuse is not an uncommon phenomenon in Malaysia. It is a traumatic experience that complicates the psychosocial development of young people on the threshold of adulthood. This case report highlights the psychosocial sequelae of adolescent sexual abuse by a traditional healer and discusses management issues in the context of unique cultural and belief systems.     

Service Barriers of Chinese Family Caregivers in Canada

ABSTRACT

Family caregiving is a stressful process, especially when the complexity of being an immigrant or ethnic minority is added. This paper examined service barriers experienced by Chinese immigrant family caregivers in Canada and the predictors of different types of barriers. Principle component analysis was performed with the barriers reported loading onto cultural barriers, administrative problems, circumstantial challenges, perceived negative quality of services, and personal attitudes. Multiple regression analysis was used to identify the role of the culture-related factors in predicting service barriers, controlling for socio-demographic status of the caregivers'. The results show that financial factors significantly predicted the number and types of barriers reported by the caregivers. Culture-related factors were significant in predicting the total number of access barriers and the different types of barriers experienced by the family caregivers. The findings indicate the importance of culturally sensitive support for family caregivers in order to reduce the access barriers.     

地方应对气候变化立法现状和关键问题初探

地方是应对气候变化活动的实施主体,通过立法来保障和支持地方减缓和适应气候变化行动十分必要.在国家专门性立法空缺的背景下,地方应对气候变化立法面临着立法时机、模式选择、利益协调和执行机制等一系列挑战和问题.地方立法者要重点把握经济关系变革性、利益相关者需求、社会实践成熟性、法律效力等级、立法路径、专门性制度、立法起草机制、法律执行机制等要素,以保障地方应对气候变化立法工作的预期实效.     

德国性别预算模式解读及其启示

自1984年澳大利亚推行妇女预算行动项目．引入性别预算行动以来,性别预算在世界范围内历经近三十年的发展与演化,已在全世界70多个国家中不同程度地实施,德国便是其中之一。作为开展性别预算诸多国家中的佼佼者．德国自上世纪90年代起便结合本国国情．在柏林、慕尼黑等地对性别预算进行了理论与实践相结合的探索与尝试,并将其落实到法律政策制度、国家机构和工作管理机制以及社会性别分析体系等层面。相形之下,我国的性别预算起步较晚。其制度模式与分析体系仍有待完善．德国的经验对我国性别预算的自主开展具有重要的启示与借鉴作用。     

民间组织从事对外援助:以中国扶贫基金会援助非洲为例

当中国学者讨论对外援助时,主要关注的是政府对外援助,而往往忽略民间对外援助。然而,后者的重要性日益提升,在某些国家甚至超过前者,以至于西方学者开始讨论"对外援助的私有化"。本文选择民间组织从事对外援助作为主题,不仅是想填补民间对外援助研究的空白,还想突显出一项重要发展,亦即在中国企业走出去之后,中国民间组织也开始走出去,并勾勒出两者之间的因果关系,以及中国政府在背后的推动作用。然而,中国民间组织如果想要更多地从事对外援助的话,还需要中国政府与中国企业的更多支持。最后,讨论这项议题对于中国外交的意义。     

气候变化与都市现代农业发展

本文讨论了在气候变化大背景下都市现代农业的未来发展,作为与先进的科学技术和生活方式紧密结合的一种农业经营方式,都市农业不仅可以借鉴传统农业的经验,而且有条件通过发挥自身的优势和不断的尝试,为气候变化下的传统农业寻找应对挑战的路径。     

城镇化效应与生育性别偏好

文章在分析生育性别偏好的基础上,探讨了出生人口性别比失衡问题产生的原因,明确提出通过农村向城市的人口迁移(城镇化)和城市向农村的制度引进、特别是婚居模式与社会保障制度的引进,来改善影响生育性别偏好的制度和文化环境,对出生人口性别比失衡问题进行标本兼治。     

新时期政府治理模式探析

本文在对治理理论进行探源的基础上,以治理理论作为新时期政府治理模式的逻辑分析起点,结合新时期政府面临的国际背景、本国国情,从目标层面、结构层面、技术层面三个层面进行分析,构建了新时期政府的治理模式:即以电子政府为依托,发展强政府—强社会,建设管制—服务型政府。     

Cross-Cultural Difference in Subjective Wellbeing: Cultural Response Bias as an Explanation

This study investigates whether the Australian-Chinese differences in subjective wellbeing (SWB) can be attributed to cultural response bias (CRB) caused by the influence of Chinese culture. Four samples are compared: Australians, first generation Chinese immigrants, second generation Chinese immigrants, and Hong Kong Chinese. It is hypothesized that the effects of CRB on means scores and variance will be the highest for Hong Kong Chinese, followed by Australian Chinese immigrants and second generation, and the lowest for Australians. These predictions were generally supported. Income is used as a covariate to test whether the predicted pattern of results remain unchanged. The result was affirmative. CRB is thus verified as contributing to the SWB difference between the Australians and Hong Kong Chinese. The implications of these findings are discussed.     

欠发达民族地区金融发展对产业结构的影响——基于临夏回族自治州的实证分析

欠发达民族地区产业结构的调整离不开金融发展的支持。在对国内外文献进行简要评述的基础上,本文以甘肃省具有代表性的欠发达民族地区临夏回族自治州作为研究对象,运用1990—2011年相关统计数据,对其金融发展与产业结构之间的关系进行了实证分析。相关回归结果表明：金融发展水平对产业结构的影响最大,并且这种影响是最为明显的。同时,金融参与率和产业结构自身变化对产业结构调整的影响也较为显著。