世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

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기독교 사역과 Leadership

The End of History and the Last Man

This paper presents systematic empirical evidence for the financialization of the US economy in the post-1970s period. While numerous researchers have noted the increasing salience of finance, there have been few systematic attempts to consider what this shift means for the nature of the economy, considered broadly. In large part, this omission reflects the considerable methodological difficulties associated with using national economic data to assess the rise of finance as a macro-level phenomenon shaping patterns of accumulation in the US economy. The paper develops two discrete measures of financialization and applies these measures to postwar US economic data in order to determine if, and to what extent, the US economy is becoming financialized. The paper concludes by considering some of the implications of financialization for two areas of ongoing debate in the social sciences: (1) the question of who controls the modern corporation; and (2) the controversy surrounding the extent to which globalization has eroded the autonomy of the state.

The financialization of the American economy

The extent to which social protection programs in general and targeted programs in particular actually alleviate poverty has been a central issue in development debates for decades. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate by empirically examining the poverty-alleviation effects of one of the largest targeted programs in the world: the Minimum Living Standard Assistance (MLSA) or Dibao in China. Using newly available data on MLSA spending and a unique panel survey dataset covering the 1993-2009 period, this research investigates the impact of the MLSA on poverty alleviation. The analyses using fixed- and random- effects logit models and hierarchical liner models offer insights that go beyond the existing studies on the subject. Findings from the study confirm that targeted social protection programs are an effective tool for reducing poverty.

Poverty Reduction in Urban China: The Impact of Cash Transfers

This paper proposes to integrate disparate notions of governance capacity by adopting a resource-based view of capacity. Governance capacity can be defined as the set of organizational and systemic resources necessary to make sound policy choices and implement them effectively. Adopting this definition allows for a more nuanced conceptualization of capacity as comprised of three essential dimensions – analytical, operational and political. In order to operationalize this resource-based definition, we identified a fundamental set of resources that are institutionalized, mission-critical and promotive of dynamic learning since not all resources can form part of capacity. This set of resources can easily be evaluated using secondary data at the policy sub-system level but no equivalent tool exists to analyze organizational capacities. To address this gap, we developed a survey instrument to measure the multi-dimensional nature of organizational policy capacity.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2802438_code1292821.pdf?abstractid=2802438&mirid=1&type=2

Rethinking Governance Capacity As Organizational and Systemic Resources

Malaysia and Singapore have had provident funds (PF) since long before the `individual retirement savings account’ (IRSA) became popular in policy dis-cussions following the publication of the World Bank’s Averting the Old Age Crisis (1994). The PF is similar to the IRSA in every respect except that it is centrally managed by the government rather than by private managers. Otherwise, both are compulsory defined contribution arrangements which specify the level of contribution rather than the benefits more typical of social insurance arrangements. Both are also fully funded in the sense that members’ benefit is equal to the balance in their personal account, imposing no actual or accrued liability on the government. The distinction is not firm in practice, however, as the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) launched in 2000 in Hong Kong is an IRSA in all but the name.

One and a Half Cheers for Provident Funds in Malaysia and Singapore

https://tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14494035.2019.1569328

Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

https://academic.oup.com/policyandsociety/article-pdf/41/1/1/46878639/puab018.pdf

M. Ramesh

Papers

Poverty Reduction in Urban China: The Impact of Cash Transfers

Rethinking Governance Capacity As Organizational and Systemic Resources

One and a Half Cheers for Provident Funds in Malaysia and Singapore

Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state