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A quick indicator of effectiveness of “capacity building” initiatives of NGOs and international organizations 非政府组织和国际组织“能力建设”倡议有效性的快速指标
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2015-12-30 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2015.4.2.4312
D. Lempert
The article offers an easy-to-use indicator for scholars and practitioners to measure whether NGOs, international organizations, and government policies and projects meet the criteria for design and implementation of “capacity building” projects that have been established by various international organizations and that are recognized by experts in the field. The indicator can be used directly to address failures that are routinely reported in this key and growing development intervention. Use of this indicator on more than a dozen standard interventions funded today by international development banks, UN organizations, country donors, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) reveals that while many smaller organizations are working to change institutions and society in ways that effectively build long-term capacity, most of the major actors in the field of development have failed to follow their own guidelines. Many appear to be using “capacity building” as a cover for lobbying foreign governments to promote international agendas (“purchasing foreign officials”) and/or to increase the power of particular officials at the expense of democracy, with the public lacking simple accountability tools. The indicator points to specific areas for holding development actors accountable in order to promote development goals of sustainability and good governance. The breadth of the field of “capacity building” also allows this indicator to be used, with some modifications, for a large variety of development interventions. This article also offers several examples of where current capacity building projects fail, along with a sample test of the indicator using UNCDF as a case study.
本文为学者和实践者提供了一个易于使用的指标,来衡量非政府组织、国际组织和政府的政策和项目是否符合各种国际组织建立并得到该领域专家认可的“能力建设”项目的设计和实施标准。该指标可直接用于解决在这一关键且日益增长的开发干预措施中经常报告的失败。目前由国际开发银行、联合国组织、国家捐助者和非政府组织资助的十多个标准干预措施使用这一指标表明,虽然许多较小的组织正在努力以有效建立长期能力的方式改变制度和社会,但发展领域的大多数主要行为体未能遵循自己的指导方针。许多机构似乎以“能力建设”为幌子,游说外国政府推动国际议程(“收买外国官员”)和/或以牺牲民主为代价增加特定官员的权力,而公众缺乏简单的问责工具。该指标指出了追究发展行为体责任的具体领域,以促进可持续性和良好治理的发展目标。“能力建设”领域的广泛性也使这一指标经过一些修改后可以用于各种各样的发展干预措施。本文还提供了当前能力建设项目失败的几个例子,以及使用资发基金作为案例研究的指标样本测试。
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引用次数: 5
The Scope of Public Organisations with Productive Functions: Insights from the Inefficiency of Italian Local Public Transport 具有生产职能的公共组织的范围:来自意大利地方公共交通效率低下的见解
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2015-12-30 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2015.4.2.4311
G. D. Foggia, Ugo Arrigo
It is a well-known fact that reforms necessary to enhance competition and make the economy more attractive play a major role in the Government activity in Europe. Considering the Italian state of affairs, this paper focuses on the inefficiency of public producers in the light of certain market and legal impediments. This paper describes key barriers that undermine the healthy functioning of an important industrial and service sector of the Italian economy: specifically local public transport. This paper also sheds some light on this problem analysing the impact that a controversial regulation framework may have on an industry and suggests that the degree of liberalisation affects the return on investments.
众所周知的事实是,为加强竞争和使经济更具吸引力而进行的必要改革在政府在欧洲的活动中发挥了重要作用。考虑到意大利的情况,本文主要关注公共生产者在某些市场和法律障碍下的低效率。本文描述了破坏意大利经济重要工业和服务部门健康运作的主要障碍:特别是当地公共交通。本文还分析了一个有争议的监管框架可能对行业产生的影响,并提出了自由化程度影响投资回报的问题。
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引用次数: 5
A Sharpe-ratio-based measure for currencies 基于夏普比率的货币衡量标准
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2015-06-29 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2015.4.1.4307
Javier Prado-Dominguez, Carlos Fernández-Herráiz
The Sharpe Ratio offers an excellent summary of the excess return required per unit of risk invested. This work presents an adaptation of the ex-ante Sharpe Ratio for currencies where we consider a random walk approach for the currency behavior and implied volatility as a proxy for market expectations of future realized volatility. The outcome of the proposed measure seems to gauge some information on the expected required return attached to the “peso problem”.
夏普比率很好地总结了每单位风险投资所需的超额回报。这项工作提出了对事前夏普比率的货币调整,其中我们考虑了货币行为和隐含波动率的随机游走方法,作为未来实现波动率的市场预期的代理。拟议措施的结果似乎衡量了与“比索问题”相关的预期所需回报的一些信息。
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引用次数: 2
The role of political competition in the link between electoral systems and corruption: an extension 政治竞争在选举制度与腐败之间的联系中的作用:延伸
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2015-06-29 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2015.4.1.4304
M. Alfano, A. L. Baraldi
This work provides an extension to an international context of the analysis made by Alfano, Baraldi and Cantabene (2013) on the role of political competition as a channel through which electoral systems affect corruption. Our result conflicts with that found by empirical literature on that topic that makes plurality rules the most virtuous in terms of corruption. Political scientists must be cautious in designing the degree of proportionality of electoral rules without take into account the variation in political competition that follows.
这项工作为Alfano, Baraldi和Cantabene(2013)对政治竞争作为选举制度影响腐败的渠道的作用所做的分析提供了国际背景的扩展。我们的结果与关于这个话题的经验文献的发现相冲突,这些文献认为,就腐败而言,多数规则是最有利的。政治学家在设计选举规则的比例程度时必须谨慎,而不考虑随之而来的政治竞争的变化。
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引用次数: 0
Impact of good governance in the economic development of Western Balkan countries 善治对西巴尔干国家经济发展的影响
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2015-06-29 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2015.4.1.4305
Engjell Pere
After the socio-economic transformation and the establishment of the free market institutions, the development and improvement of living standards in post transition economies are deemed to depend more and more on the so called secondary “generating” reforms, at the core of which is the good governance. Drawing from this approach, this article seeks to address the role and the effect of the good governance in the economic development of the Western Balkans countries. More specifically, the article investigates the impact of good governance in the rates of economic growth of GDP. The article adopts a quantitative methodology approach, i.e. an econometric model based on the examination of a panel – data of good governance indicators for Western Balkans countries for the period 1996 – 2012. The analysis concentrates on the following Western Balkan Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
在社会经济转型和自由市场体制建立之后,转型后经济中生活水平的发展和提高被认为越来越依赖于所谓的次级“生成”改革,其核心是善治。根据这一方法,本文试图论述善政在西巴尔干国家经济发展中的作用和影响。更具体地说,本文研究了良好治理对GDP经济增长率的影响。本文采用了一种定量方法,即基于1996 - 2012年期间西巴尔干国家善政指标小组数据的检验的计量经济学模型。分析集中于下列西巴尔干国家:阿尔巴尼亚、波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那、克罗地亚、科索沃、马其顿、黑山和塞尔维亚。
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引用次数: 37
Editorial statement: Lessons from Goodhart’s law for the management of the journal 编辑声明:古德哈特定律对期刊管理的启示
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2014-12-30 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2014.3.2.4299
Diego Varela, G. Benedetto, J. Sánchez-Santos
In this editorial statement we summarise some of the discussions we have had in the last months regarding the risks associated with the use of indicators for the measurement of research outputs, and how these risks should affect the management of the European Journal of Government and Economics. In particular, we focus on the consequences of the so-called Goodhart’s law, which states that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. We also explain the latest developments in the journal in the light of our previous editorial statements, and present our strategy for the upcoming years.
在这篇社论声明中,我们总结了过去几个月来关于使用指标来衡量研究成果的风险的一些讨论,以及这些风险应该如何影响《欧洲政府与经济杂志》的管理。我们特别关注所谓的古德哈特定律的后果,该定律指出,当一项措施成为目标时,它就不再是一项好措施。我们还根据之前的编辑声明解释了该杂志的最新发展,并提出了我们未来几年的战略。
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引用次数: 4
What drives sub-national bioenergy development? Exploring cross-level implications of environmental policy integration in EU and Swedish bioenergy policy 是什么推动了地方生物能源的发展?探讨欧盟和瑞典生物能源政策中环境政策整合的跨层面影响
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2014-12-30 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2014.3.2.4301
C. Söderberg
What are the sub-national implications, in policy and practice, of environmental policy integration (EPI) in EU and Swedish bioenergy policy? Focusing on the exceptional bioenergy expansion within the Biofuel Region in north Sweden, this paper discusses cross-level implications of supranational and national policy decisions on bioenergy; whether environmental perspectives are observable also in sub-national bioenergy discussions; and explores the drivers of sub-national bioenergy development in a multi-level governance setting. The study finds that higher-level EPI plays an important role for sub-national bioenergy development. The degree of sub-national EPI in bioenergy and the type of renewables invested in is to a large extent set by top-down influence from the EU and national level through agenda setting, policy goals and economic mechanisms. Local policy entrepreneurs play an important role for finding ‘win-win’-solutions that can help initiating local energy projects and ensure sub-national EPI, but environmental-economic – rather than merely economic – motives for getting involved are important to ensure long-term local commitment to renewable energy projects.
在欧盟和瑞典的生物能源政策中,环境政策整合(EPI)在政策和实践中的地方意义是什么?专注于生物燃料地区在瑞典北部的特殊生物能源扩张,本文讨论了超国家和国家对生物能源政策决定的跨层面影响;在地方一级的生物能源讨论中,环境观点是否也能被观察到;并探讨了多层次治理环境下地方生物能源发展的驱动因素。研究发现,较高水平的EPI对地方生物能源发展具有重要作用。地方生物能源EPI的程度和可再生能源投资类型在很大程度上受到欧盟和国家层面自上而下的影响,包括议程设置、政策目标和经济机制。地方政策企业家在寻找“双赢”解决方案方面发挥了重要作用,这些解决方案可以帮助启动地方能源项目并确保次国家级EPI,但是参与的环境经济动机——而不仅仅是经济动机——对于确保地方对可再生能源项目的长期承诺很重要。
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引用次数: 2
The role of confidence in the evolution of the Spanish economy: empirical evidence from an ARDL model 信心在西班牙经济演变中的作用:来自ARDL模型的经验证据
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2014-12-30 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2014.3.2.4303
Pablo Castellanos García, Indalecio Pérez Díaz del Río, J. Sánchez-Santos
The aim of this paper is to verify the existence and to determine the nature of long-term relationships between economic agents’ confidence, measured by the Economic Sentiment Index (ESI), with some of the "fundamentals" of the Spanish economy. In particular, by modeling this type of relations, we try to determine whether confidence is a dependent (explained) or independent (explanatory) variable. Along with confidence, in our model we incorporate variables such as risk premium of sovereign debt, financial market volatility, unemployment, inflation, public and private debt and the net lending/net borrowing of the economy. For the purpose of obtaining some empirical evidence on the exogenous or endogenous character of the above mentioned variables an ARDL (Autoregressive-Distributed Lag) model is formulated. The model is estimated with quarterly data of the Spanish economy for the period 1990-2012. Our findings suggest that: (a) unemployment is the dependent variable, (b) there is an inverse relationship between ESI in Spain and unemployment; and (c) the Granger causality goes from confidence to unemployment.
本文的目的是验证经济主体的信心(由经济情绪指数(ESI)衡量)与西班牙经济的一些“基本面”之间存在并确定长期关系的性质。特别是,通过建模这种类型的关系,我们试图确定置信度是依赖(解释)还是独立(解释)变量。除了信心,在我们的模型中,我们还纳入了主权债务的风险溢价、金融市场波动、失业率、通胀、公共和私人债务以及经济的净借贷/净借贷等变量。为了获得上述变量的外生或内生特征的一些经验证据,我们建立了一个自回归分布滞后(ARDL)模型。该模型是根据1990年至2012年期间西班牙经济的季度数据进行估计的。我们的研究结果表明:(a)失业率是因变量;(b)西班牙的ESI与失业率呈负相关;(c)格兰杰因果关系从信心到失业。
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引用次数: 3
Are political support-driven policies always bad? The case of large interest groups 政治支持驱动的政策总是不好的吗?大利益集团的案例
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2014-12-30 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2014.3.2.4302
G. Lagadec
The action of active interest groups (lobbies) has been traditionally considered to be a source of harmful waste for the economy which reduces social well-being. Can this analysis be adapted to the case of large unorganised groups which do not ask for anything directly? Or, on the contrary, does the setting up of policies which improve the situation of these large groups permit an improvement in social welfare? We start from classical (public choice) analyses of lobbying and rent-seeking developed since the 1970s, closely linked with the hypothesis of re-election-seeking politicians, before extending our analysis also to consider non-sector-specific policies and passive interest groups (notably those too large to meet the Olsonian condition of efficient collective action). Then the research question to be answered becomes whether promoting the interest of large groups can deliver social welfare as defined by the incumbent’s social welfare function. We refer to the political cycles’ evidence to consider that no social welfare objective can motivate the favouring of large groups.
积极的利益集团(游说集团)的行动历来被认为是有害浪费的来源,减少了社会福利。这种分析能否适用于不直接要求任何东西的大型无组织群体?或者,相反,制定改善这些大群体处境的政策是否允许改善社会福利?我们从20世纪70年代以来对游说和寻租的经典(公共选择)分析开始,这些分析与寻求连任的政治家的假设密切相关,然后将我们的分析扩展到考虑非部门特定政策和被动利益集团(特别是那些太大而无法满足有效集体行动的奥尔森条件的利益集团)。那么要回答的研究问题就变成了,按照现任者的社会福利职能,促进大群体的利益是否能够提供社会福利。我们参考政治周期的证据来考虑,没有任何社会福利目标可以激发对大群体的青睐。
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Institutional quality and private sector participation: theory and empirical findings 制度质量与私营部门参与:理论与实证研究结果
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2014-12-30 DOI: 10.17979/EJGE.2014.3.2.4300
Rahel M. Schomaker
Through several conduits, sound institutional quality is pivotal for economic development, as there is evidence that stable democratic institutions, rule of law and sound governance structures in the administration are highly conducive to promote growth. Therefore, a high institutional quality is not only the end point, but also the starting point of a more sustainable development. In this paper we provide some theoretical considerations as well as empirical evidence, based on several regression analyses, that the quality of institutions in a wider sense, and governance, which includes not only the level of “politics” itself, but also the administrative level, is relevant not only for the macro-level of development (i.e. the increase of the national welfare and foreign investment), but also on a micro-level: A stronger participation of private enterprises in public service provision and the introduction of public-private part¬nerships depends to a high degree on the institutional quality. This is even more relevant as the improvement of public services and of core infrastructures can be seen as crucial multipliers for future growth.
通过几个渠道,健全的制度质量对经济发展至关重要,因为有证据表明,稳定的民主制度、法治和健全的行政治理结构非常有助于促进经济增长。因此,高质量的制度不仅是可持续发展的终点,也是起点。在本文中,我们提供了一些理论思考和实证证据,基于几次回归分析,在更广泛的意义上,制度质量和治理,不仅包括“政治”本身的水平,也包括行政层面,不仅与宏观发展水平(即国民福利和外国投资的增加)有关,而且在微观层面上也相关:私营企业更有力地参与提供公共服务和引入公私伙伴关系在很大程度上取决于体制质量。由于公共服务和核心基础设施的改善可以被视为未来增长的关键乘数,这一点就更加重要了。
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