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In daily life, most people engage in money-related behavior. Adequate financial knowledge is required to successfully manage tasks, such as daily expenditure and the transformation of assets or debts, small, or large. However, the extent of financial knowledge may vary between individuals. With inadequate financial knowledge, people may easily fall into financial difficulties without having sufficient knowledge to redress them. A total of 217 students from departments of finance in universities in Fujian completed an 18-week educational course delivered via the Internet on integrated financial education (5h per week for a total of 90h). The conclusions were as follows: (1) The Internet can be used to provide education on making ends meet, cutting costs, and increasing profits. It is suitable for beginner students and new graduates who are rapidly accumulating money management experience. (2) Knowledge provided in the course includes the causes of investment, comprehensive changes in the market, unexpected risks, and wrong decision-making. As such, education provided through the Internet can assist in the teaching of money management and investment. (3) Providing teaching on integrated financial education through the Internet avoids the pitfalls of getting lost in the real-world investment market. We expected to cultivate students’ finance-related knowledge, skills, and attitudes through internalization of the financial literacy of money management.

We model a simple communication network model for the evolution of heterogeneous beliefs in an overlapping generation economy. Each agent gathers information from his contacts and forms an inflation forecast based on this information, using the belief generation procedures. When the actual inflation is realised, an agent is in a position to learn, i.e., adjust his own network strategy and belief. The learning is modelled as an evolving network process, i.e., a network of agents, with non-zero communication costs. Our simulation results suggest that the network economy as a whole acts efficiently in achieving convergence to the Pareto superior equilibrium, in which an agent’s perception of information is through communication and is subject to available resources. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005communication networks, heterogeneous agents,

There are many programs and measures in the administrative reform of governments in various countries, where governance related theories are broadly discussed and indeed enhance public administration changing the traditional practice and turn the government into transformation in past years. Government reform in new public management becomes more difficult for governments constructing transparent accountability systems. In this case, it is urgent to establish transparent, accountable, and corruption controlled anti-corruption governance strategies for governments’ reform. In the process of transforming government administrative reform to governance, it is necessary to establish the core concepts of accountability, openness, transparency, zero-corruption, and high-performance standard. Aiming at employees of Ministry of National Defense in Taiwan, as the empirical objects, total 360 copies of questionnaire are distributed for this study, and 273 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 76%. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to help the government draw the goal of transparency in government and promote many measures about anti-corruption to achieve the effective utilization of public resources, enhance people’s trust in the government, and reinforce government rule legitimacy.

In this article, a holistic governance framework is used to investigate the policy evolution and diffusion of the Bookstart programme. Documentary analysis is used to uncover the evolution and processes of the Bookstart programme. The findings indicate that the development of the Bookstart programme followed a 'bottom-up' to 'top-down' process that can be broadly divided into four stages: popularization, horizontal diffusion, vertical integration and civil society response. The evolution of Bookstart in Taiwan began with relations between government agencies and enterprise organizations before transitioning to relationships between central and local governments and eventually to relations between government agencies and civil society. However, Bookstart in Taiwan has failed to develop resource integration and interaction between local governments, or a local government policy network.