<Preface>
This book is focuses on the overseas development aid provided by Korea to developing countries, exploring in particular how the effectiveness of this aid might be strengthened. In this context, it discusses how Korea’s excellent intellectual properties can be integrated with applied social and economic methodologies, so that they can be of service in underdeveloped countries. The ultimate goal of official development assistance is to improve the incomes and quality of life of the citizens of the underdeveloped countries receiving aid. Job creation is of cardinal importance here in bringing about improvements in incomes, and ultimately, support should be provided to improve equality of life in various different fields.
However, even if a range of facilities are installed in underdeveloped countries and equipment is transferred, ultimately, if local residents cannot use these to create new jobs so as to bring about stable income improvements, the aid will have had no results. Countries are constantly being forced to depend on foreign aid. The virtuous circle of rapid economic growth, job creation and personal income improvement in the 1960s and 1970s is the reason why Korea is the only country in the world to have received aid in the past which is itself able to provide aid today. Its example leads us to conclude that one of the important directions that aid to underdeveloped countries should take lies in creating an abundance of jobs in the recipient countries.
If Korean aid can create numerous jobs in the recipient countries, and can contribute to income improvements in those countries while at the same time allowing the development of industries in the international development co-operation sector in Korea which provides the aid, this will represent a highly desirable direction for international development co-operation to take in the future. With this aim in view, the present writer is engaged in academic research employing a range of methodologies, in the hope that the products of Korea’s outstanding intellectual capital can be grafted onto the social economy and revitalized, not only in the recipient countries, but also in Korea itself. If Korea’s excellent intellectual attainments can contribute to job creation and income growth for residents of recipient countries, and if at the same time industries that utilize this intellectual property in a social and economic capacity are revitalized in Korea, this will provide a strong opportunity to create a new field of international development cooperation.
Conceived against this background, this book is a compilation of articles the writer has published in various academic journals. It is published with the help of the Support Program for the Humanities and the Social Sciences Research Institute which the National Research Foundation of Korea has provided. I wish to express my deep gratitude to the Foundation for supporting the publication of this book. My hope is that, if it can contribute even a little to the field of Korea’s aid projects to developing countries, these projects, which are daily growing in size, may become more effective in the future.
Young-Chool Choi,
Cheongju City, April 2022
<Contents>
Part 1 Conditions for Successful ODA Projects
Chapter 1 Analyzing Research Trends in Official Development Assistance
Chapter 2 What Are the Combinations of Factors Enhancing the Effectiveness of ODA?
Chapter 3 A Preliminary Study of the Monitoring System for ODA Projects for Vietnam
Chapter 4 A Methodological Approach to Portfolio Evaluation for ODA Projects, with Special Reference to Contribution Analysis
Part 2 ODA and Social Economy
Chapter 5 Attributes of the Concept of Social Value and Major Issues Related to It
Chapter 6 Policy Considerations for Utilizing Social Enterprises for ODA Projects: Application of Text Mining Analysis
Chapter 7 Valuation of the Talent Donation Projects for Rural People in Korea
Chapter 8 Strategies for Revitalizing Educational Donation in Korea: Application of System Dynamics
Chapter 9 Network Analysis Regarding International Organisations and Donors of Humanitarian Aid: A Korean Perspective
Part 3 Appropriate Technology and Intellectual Property
Chapter 10 Exploring Strategies for Utilizing Appropriate Technologies (AT) for ODA Projects
Chapter 11 Analysing Core Themes and Co-Author Patterns on the Connection between Intellectual Property Rights and Social Enterprises
Chapter 12 Utilization of Intellectual Property in Official Development Assistance (ODA) Projects for Developing Countries
Chapter 13 Appropriate Resource Allocation of Korea’s ICT ODA to Africa: Using Optimization Simulation
Chapter 14 Prioritizing Korean ICT ODA Project Areas and Project Types for Africa
Part 4 Restructuring the ODA Policies for Recipient Countries
Chapter 15 Identification of Social Issues Following the Coronavirus Pandemic in Korea: Topic Analysis and Ego Network Analysis of Public Health
Chapter 16 Searching for Social Characteristics and Policy Measures for Each Stage of the Corona Spread in Korea: Social Network Analysis and Systems Thinking
<Author/Editor>
최영출
<학력 및 소속>
- 정책학 박사, 영국 뉴캐슬대학교
- 현, 충북대학교 행정학과 교수, 한국비교정부학회 회장
<주요 경력>
- 대통령직속 지역발전위원회 위원(공공기관지방이전 분과위원장)
- 행정안전부 지방자치단체 합동평가단장 및 합동평가위원장
- 한국정책분석평가학회 회장
<주요 실적>
- 주요 인도적 기구와의 전략적 협력방안 연구(KOICA, 2021)
- 포스트 코로나 시대 아프리카 ICT 국제개발협력 수요 및 한국의 협력방안(대외경제정책연구원, 2021)
- 국제협력성과 장기추적조사 및 정성지표 개발 연구(2020, 한국연구재단) 외
Young-Chool Choi is Director of International Development Institute and Professor of Public Administration at Chungbuk National University, Korea. His main academic interests are policy analysis and evaluation, international development cooperation, and educational policies. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He worked as Senior Policy Analyst at the Northern Development Agency, a regional development agency in the UK, and previously as a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Research Institute for Local Administration, Korea. He is currently the President of Korean Association for Comparative Government Studies.