Easy to Declare,Difficult to Implement: The Disconnect Between the Aspirations of the Paris Declaration and Donor Practice in Nigeria

The arguments in academia over the effectiveness of foreign aid fall into two broad categories: those grounded in political economy and those focused on donor conduct and aid effectiveness. There have been policy attempts within the donor community to reconcile them, including the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. This article examines the key features of foreign aid to Nigeria between 1999 and 2007. Using the Declaration as a framework, it looks for ways of making foreign aid in Nigeria more effective.     

从一封信看毛泽东的“公社情结”

1958年,人民公社在中国一哄而起,被称作“一条过渡到共产主义的具体途径”。毛泽东对人民公社一直是青睐有加的,从1959年8月19日毛泽东写给吴冷西等人的一封信中,我们或许可以窥知其“公社情结”。毛泽东打算用有力的调查材料来驳斥国内外对人民公社的指责,他认为人民公社是未来共产主义社会的基础,必须得到保护。在他本人关于人民公社的一系列重要讲话中,均透露出了对人民公社的偏爱。以这封信为线索来探究毛泽东的“公社情结”,“小缩影”印证了“大历史”的关怀。     

晚清柏塘教案始末

柏塘教案是19世纪下半期在广东地区发生的最重要的民教冲突事件,其爆发的原因是广东人民反洋教情绪的高涨和伸德辉神父的骄横跋扈。清政府在柏塘教案处理过程中,对内残酷打压,对外奴颜婢膝。法国巴黎外方传教会的政治传教方式虽然在一定程度上吸引和保护了教徒,但也纵容无赖教徒,使教会的形象受到很坏的影响。     

一场克服平均主义倾向的伟大运动--略论当年的反"共产风"

运用历史与逻辑相统一的方法,就当年以毛泽东为首的党中央为克服农村经济工作中出现的严重平均主义倾向所领导开展的反对"一平二调" "共产风"运动的问题作了一简要历史回顾,并从唯物史观的立场出发, 实事求是地对其作了客观的评价.     

Fiddling while the planet burns? COP25 in perspective

ABSTRACT

With fires, storms, social protests, and climate strikes sweeping the world, 2019 should have been a tipping point in how the world responds to global heating. This was the backdrop to the COP25 climate change summit which took place in Madrid in December 2019. This paper assesses the outcomes of the meeting and the path towards the critically important meeting in Glasgow at the end of 2020. It analyses and explains the key points of contention over levels of ambition, the rules which should govern global carbon markets and sensitive issues such as loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate change. The analysis is situated within a broader geopolitical and economic context of right-wing populism, deepening forms of marketization and financialization of responses to climate change and against a background of a world increasingly feeling the effects of the climate crisis.     

罪恶之城:左拉小说中的巴黎

左拉生活在巴黎都市化走向高潮的时期,他的大部分小说或以巴黎生活为中心,或以巴黎为场景,表现了19世纪中后期法国经济发展、物质满足背后人的精神空虚和道德的堕落。左拉小说中的巴黎是罪恶之城,其精神特质与人性的邪恶联系在一起。左拉运用狂欢节的意象和场面,表现了法国都市化时期人的欲望放纵和攫取金钱地位的野心,而酒作为左拉小说中影响人物性格、气质与行动的因素,则具有丰富的象征意义,通过对酒的自然主义及象征主义表现,左拉表现了处于“酒神”控制下的巴黎图景。左拉自然主义的人性观、理性主义思想极大地影响了他对巴黎形象的塑造。     

大巴黎规划视角:低碳城市建设的启示

人类活动对自然的影响越来越大,同样全球气候的深刻变化日益影响着人类的生存和发展。西欧,作为全球环保意识最高的地区,其城市发展也充分体现了与环境友好相处的特征。2009年4月,法国公布了新的对巴黎地区进行改造的宏伟计划——“大巴黎计划”,其中城市改造的“低碳”理念为未来大都市的发展提供了很好的借鉴。     

School Choice in London and Paris – A Comparison of Middle‐class Strategies

Education is one major public service in which quasi‐markets and other choice‐based mechanisms are now established methods of delivery. The types of school people choose, and the extent to which their choices are realized, have a fundamental impact on the outcomes of any mechanism of school choice. In this article, we provide a comparative analysis of the school choice strategies of middle‐class families in London and Paris. We draw on approximately 200 in‐depth interviews carried out across the two cities. This enables us to investigate the extent to which middle‐class school choice strategies transcend the institutional context provided by both the local (state and private) schools market and national education policy in England and France. We discuss these findings in the context of current school choice policy and consider their implications for future policy design.     

薛福成《观巴黎油画记》小考

晚清驻外公使薛福成《观巴黎油画记》所说的油画,为法国19世纪知名的全景画《围攻伊西要塞》,一名《围攻巴黎》,由画家菲利波托父子合作创作。晚清到过法国的许多中国人曾观赏此画并记录感想,他们对此画不约而同做的民族主义的解读,是一种文化误读。