入世五年我国银行业市场结构分析

2001年我国正式加入世界贸易组织,在银行业方面逐步取消对外资金融机构外汇业务服务对象的限制,相继开放若干城市的外资银行人民币经营业务,要素市场处于逐步开放之中.对此,文章通过采用哈佛学派的SCP范式,对入世五年来我国银行业的市场份额、市场集中度、产品差异以及产品进入壁垒等方面进行了分析,得出目前我国银行业进入壁垒高、创新不足、依然处于中等寡头垄断状态的结论.     

民营银行市场准入的法律问题研究

在入世五年过渡期后,我国银行业已全面对外开放。而与之形成鲜明对比的是,对内开放却步履缓慢,如履薄冰。发展民营银行对于迎接外资银行的挑战,加速我国金融体制市场化进程具有重要的现实意义。应当在充分认识民营银行潜在风险的基础上,对民营银行的市场准入进行审慎的法律监管,以保证其健康有序地发展。     

浅议普及图书检索知识的方法和途径

通过分析读者检索面临的问题及图书馆检索教育的不足,论述了检索知识普及的重要性与必要性,提出了对读者进行普及检索教育的方法与途径。     

Deaf access to justice in Northern Ireland: rethinking ‘Reasonable Adjustment’ in the Disability Discrimination Act

Abstract

This article provides findings of a qualitative study exploring the interactions of eight Deaf participants and one hearing ally with the justice system in Northern Ireland, where the Disability Discrimination Act requires solicitors to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ in order to provide effective access to Deaf clients. Three thematic categories emerged: (a) barriers to accessing justice, (b) work Deaf people do for access, and (c) the need to educate solicitors about access. A central strain ran through these themes: the idea that ‘reasonable adjustment’ must reflect the value of sign language interpreters in facilitating effective communication access for all the parties.     

Navigating health care: brokerage and access for undocumented Latino immigrants under the 2010 Affordable Care Act

ABSTRACT

Brokerage is a prominent mechanism that explains access for Latino immigrants to many American institutions. However, few studies examine the dual nature of brokerage in answering questions on access to health care for undocumented Latino immigrants. The growing importance of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and ethnic navigators connecting immigrants to health care under the 2010 Affordable Care Act calls attention to the duality of brokers and its role in access. The study draws from 44 in-depth interviews with providers, clinic directors, navigators, and immigrant patients and two years of fieldwork in FQHCs in California’s San Francisco Bay Area (2011–2013). Results show that brokers enable access through coaching and myth-busting but they also hinder it through scrutiny and bureaucratic filtering. The widespread dependence on brokerage, I argue, leads to ersatz brokerage, such as when providers navigate the health-care system for the undocumented without the appropriate linguistic resources or coordination. Furthermore, the study shows that the duality in brokerage generates misinformation, churning, and alienation. Understanding the relational processes that both include and exclude vulnerable populations from needed services enhances theories of immigrant integration and can help design more efficient policies and address inequalities related to documentation status.     

Promoting the Visibility of Educational Research through an Institutional Repository

Established in 1994 through the amalgamation of several teacher training colleges, The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) is the major multidisciplinary teacher education provider in the Hong Kong SAR. Despite this, the Institute does not have a particularly high research profile when compared with its peer institutions in Hong Kong and around the world. Its research publishing achieves modest exposure and impact in international educational research literature. The Institute has a goal to attain the title of a “university of education” and has identified an improvement in its research output and profile as critical to achieving this. In this context the HKIEd Library embarked on the redevelopment of its institutional repository, changing its direction from being an archive of institutional publications to one which brought together and offered access to the sum total of published output of the Institute since its foundation, in a deliberate effort to promote Institute research. This paper explores the particular approach taken by the Library to the development of the institutional repository, how the repository contributes directly to and aligns with the research strategies of the Institute, and the impact the Repository has had so far on improving the profile of research at HKIEd.     

Opening the Book

Open access book publishers often face different challenges than their counterparts in journal publishing. In particular, the funding models and discovery solutions that work for journal articles may not always function as well for books. Charles Watkinson of the University of Michigan Press answered questions about recent activities in these two areas. University of Michigan Press has participated in Knowledge Unlatched, a platform that allows a large network of libraries to financially support the open access publication of books from several publishers. In order to enhance discovery of these titles and learn more about their use, the press has also begun participating in the new Open Access eBooks on JSTOR program.     

WTO农业谈判的僵局及其原因

多哈回合贸易谈判的主要问题是农产品的贸易自由化。由于谈判各方利益冲突严重,至今仍未取得满意的结局。对9年来多哈回合历次谈判进行总结,分析谈判破裂的原因,以期对未来农业谈判的前景判断有所帮助。