Foreign Aid and the Development of the Republic of Korea: The Effectiveness of Concessional Assistance

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U.S. Agency for International Development, 1985 - Počet stran: 101
 

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Strana 38 - The massive inflow of foreign assistance before and during the Korean War was essential to the survival of South Korea as an independent country. Continuation of a high level of economic assistance for the decade after the war probably made the difference between the small 1.5 percent per annum growth rate and no growth at all in per capita income.
Strana 38 - Without this growth, the living standard of the population would have remained desperate, political cohesion would have deteriorated, and the foundations for subsequent high growth would not have been forged.
Strana 4 - The almost irresistible conclusion from Korean development experience is that with proper economic policies and a continuation of reasonable international aid levels most developing countries can achieve at least a 6 per cent annual growth rate, and many countries could sustain growth rates as high as 10 per cent.
Strana 45 - Table 6 suffer from a number of serious limitations. First, there are shortcomings in the definition of incomes and the coverage of the two surveys. The urban survey is confined to wage and salary earners rather than to all income earners and excludes those who earn more than a specified...
Strana 24 - Brown, GT 1973. Korean Pricing Policies and Economic Development in the 1960s. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Chen, EKY 1976. 'The Empirical Relevancy of the Endogenous Technical Progress Function.
Strana 22 - Comptroller General of the United States. AUDIT REPORT TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES...
Strana 45 - ... the rural survey appears to define income as inclusive of changes in the book value of inventories and thus to overstate rural incomes in periods of rising inventories and grain prices. Second, since the comparison is based on nominal incomes, no account is taken of the difference in rates of inflation; as we have noted above, rural cost of living has risen faster than urban in recent years. This tends to bias the comparison, overstating the...
Strana 3 - Dong-Hi Kim and Yong-Jae Joo, The Food Situation and Policies in the Republic of Korea (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1982), p. 65. 108. Larry E. Westphal and Kwang Suk Kim, "Industrial Policy and Development in Korea," World Bank Staff Working Paper no.
Strana 2 - Review of Income Distribution Studies, Data Availability, and Associated Problems for Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan", Paper presented at the Brookings-Princeton Conference, September, 1974.

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