Navigating return: the gendered geographies of skilled return migration to Ghana

In this article, I extend the literature on return migration by exploring the gendered mechanisms of return for highly skilled Ghanaian migrants. Drawing on interviews with Ghanaian women and men who returned in their prime productive years, I examine their decision‐making, the strategies they implement and the challenges they negotiate in the process. While the decision to return was straightforward, the actual processes circumscribing it contained tensions and compromises that involved renegotiations of gender identities, roles and norms, which themselves intersected with class differences. The empirical analyses emphasize how skilled migrants capitalize on their class status, social networks and transnational activities as means not only to return but also, for some, to mitigate the impacts of separation for themselves and their families as they seek to accomplish specific goals.     

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE GROWTH ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVE

A positive relationship between FDI and economic growth under two economic conditions has been estimated: a sufficient level of human capital and well-developed financial markets, respectively. However, these two conditions can be fundamentally different catalysts for FDI to promote economic growth in the perspective of growth accounting. Using data from 69 countries over 1970–1989, we find that FDI promotes productivity growth only when the host country reaches a threshold level of human capital; and FDI promotes capital growth only when a certain level of financial development is achieved. ( JEL F21)     

DO DRAGONS HAVE BETTER FATE?

Traditionally, belief in the Chinese zodiac promotes the superstition that the timing of one's birth determines one's fate. Adherence to this belief has resulted in increased birth rates during Dragon years and, hence, problems in the logistics of providing certain public goods and services (such as schools and medical services) by governments. Despite the possible economic impacts of this superstition on society, no previous study has attempted to test its validity. Using the 1991 and 1996 Hong Kong census data sets, as well as the standard return-to-education methodology, we do not find any evidence for this pervasive superstition. (JEL J13 , J18 , Z12 )     

香港教科书的编辑:提升质量的建议

教科书是教育系统中重要的环节,它是教学的重要内容、知识的系统性组织、课程与教学问的连结.然而,香港对教科书的探讨仍然不足,而且教科书的质量仍有待提升.在制度层面分析香港教科书编审情况的基础上;从教科书研究、政府审书尺度、政府审书取向、教科书内容质素等四方面,阐述提升教科书效能的建议.作者认为,香港特区政府仍负有最重要的责任.能否加强教科书研究?能否强化审书机制?能否扮演更积极的审书角色?这些都是特区政府能否提升教科书质量所必须面对和解决的重要问题.     

染整实验教学中如何加强对学生能力的培养

本文根据染整专业改革的思想,围绕染整实验教学中出现的问题,提出如何通过实验课的各个环节、各种实验手段和教学方法来开发学生智力、启迪学生思维、培养学生观察、分析判断问题的能力及解决问题的能力。     

国外大黑天研究述评

大黑天是藏传佛教最重要的护法之一,集战神、福神、冥府神、财宝神及食厨神于一身,历代信徒皆极重视。关于对大黑天的研究,不论国内外,讨论文章不胜枚举。文章即从图像学及文献学两方面,对国外大黑天的研究情况作一总的介绍。     

大足"孝道"石刻研究方法新探

运用系统论新法研究大足"孝道"石刻———乍观此一命题,令人忍俊不禁。一为现代全新科研成果,一为古老世界文化遗产,二者风马牛不相及,何来"运用",何来"研究"?然细一揣摩试恰切中时弊,使大足石刻"孝道"石刻之研究遂成统一完整系统,避免重蹈机械割切,过于单一零碎之旧法,使之曲径通幽而步入另一洞天,自忖乃有识之举。     

Colonial State Entrapped – The Problem of Unregistered Schools in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s

Utilizing sources from newspapers, published official documents, and declassified governmental files from archives in Hong Kong and England, this article explores the problem of unregistered schools in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s. After the war the Hong Kong colonial government played a limited role in education provision, and private institutions became the chief providers of schooling facilities. To prevent private schools from operating in a manner detrimental to the political stability of the territories, and to ensure pupils' health and safety, the ruling authorities imposed strict regulations. This approach increased the cost of running private schools, caused a substantial portion of education demand to remain unfulfilled, and consequently led to the emergence of unregistered schools. These unlawful institutions placed the government under tremendous pressure, both because some were tied to questionable political factions and because the founding of these institutions provoked objections from operators of legal private schools. Since the colonial state continued to assume a limited role in education provision, strong action brought against unlawful institutions would have further increased the number of unschooled children and undermined the popularity of the government. These pressures made the presence of black market schools a very difficult problem to resolve.     

Consistency of the Semi-parametric MLE in Linear Regression Models with Interval-censored Data

Abstract.  Consider the model Y = β ^' X + ε . Let F ₀ be the unknown cumulative distribution function of the random variable ε . Consistency of the semi-parametric Maximum likelihood estimator of ( β , F ₀), denoted by     , has not been established under any interval censorship (IC) model. We prove in this paper that     is consistent under the mixed case IC model and some mild assumptions.