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This study aims at reviewing the justification and evolutionary context of international development cooperation from historical view points. In this line, this paper reviews the paradigm formation of international development cooperation through the social evolution perspective, the contents of modernization theory, the impacts of the Marshall Plan since 1948 and the United Nations expert report (1951). This article also looks at the results of a series of high-level meetings organized by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on the changing approach of international development cooperation. The results of the review are as follows. First, international development cooperation is justified in terms of maintaining the global economic order. In this light, international development cooperation has been derived from unfair trade practices and past colonial rule. Second, international development cooperation has been based on the sustainability of human civilization, which should be jointly responded altogether to climate change and other environmental crises. Third, international development cooperation is justified from a humanitarian standpoint. This humanitarian stance is also linked to the security guarantee of the international community, which defines human basic needs as universal welfare levels for mankind.

The Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) is a UN's development agenda from 2016 following Millenium Development Goals. This study researched "What are Goal-11 (sustainable city and community)'s 11 indicators", and What international advantages Korea Newtown Development (KND) have on those indicators" with theoretical background, survey and literatures analysis. This urban SDGs can be understood by three dimensions, Urban Scale(Population Re-location), Urban Space(Infrastructure Supply) and Urban Society(Community Re-form). According to the survey results, Urban Space is recognized as most important dimension for Goal-11's indicators. This study insists KND have strong international advantages on not only Urban Space by packaged urban infrastructures, but also Urban Scale by population re-location creating development merit because Urban Scale has fundamental effects on Urban Space and Society. And, KND has a little bit weak advantages on Urban Society because KND, as green field development, changes community context totally, so KND needs to be developed of more solutions on Urban Society issues. too.

The purpose of this study is to present a desirable direction for the strategy of overseas urban development projects which is attracting attention as a new national growth engine. In order to examine the competitiveness of existing urban development technologies accumulated and developed through the construction of new towns and the effectiveness of existing strategies, this study compared the cases of Egypt New Communities with Korea new towns built around the same time and suggested desirable urban development strategies. First of all, rather than approaching overseas development projects with the concept of exporting domestic products, the project should be promoted based on the cooperation of public entities of both countries. Secondly, it should be based on the target country's specific environment which is far different from that of Korea in the areas of the legal framework and the economic level and situation. Third, the strategy to fill the developed space is not less important than constructing excellent urban infrastructures and it must be considered from the initial stage of the project. Fourth, Korean companies need to select and concentrate on the fields where they have competitiveness and need to boldly localize their business in the target country. In addition, this study suggests that countermeasures for the affordable housing market where demand is surging globally are needed and that an approach based on the profit model rather than construction technology is required as well.

In this study, we conceptualized and categorized technical cooperation projects in the agricultural sector and analyzed cases of implementation and evaluation of representative technical cooperation projects such as KOPIA, KAPEX, KSP, CIAT, etc.. It’s to find problems in the process of implementation and management. Based on this, we tried to seek directions for improvement of performance. In other words, problems found are categorized as poor participation by partner countries, insufficient expertise in ODA projects, constraints on sustainability and performance expansion, and limitations on project management and performance evaluation, and the corresponding directions of performance improvement are strengthening the participation and responsibility of partner countries, enhancing the expertise of technical cooperation projects in agricultural sector, discovery and implementation of the link-and-convergence projects, strengthening the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. Furthermore, based on these results, specific implementation measures were proposed for improving performance by stage (planning, proceeding and terminating) of implementation of technical cooperation projects.

The purpose of this study is to examines a evaluation of international development cooperation. We can approach evaluation of international development cooperation from many directions. It is necessary to examines all aspects of evaluation of international development cooperation, but that is beyond the scope of this study. This article was concerned with quantitative evaluation and qualitative evaluation. The concern with evaluation of international development cooperation has been growing. Quantitative data and qualitative data complement each other and would be best used together. But there is very little agreement that method. No doubt, there are many difficulties lying in the way of a improvement to evaluation of international development cooperation. It is very difficult, for both the theoretical and practical point of view. No matter how great increasement of international development cooperation fund and project, there is nothing so essential for the development effectiveness. The improvement of evaluation of international development cooperation shall be able to the SDGs. This study suggest several salient points for making policy direction for evaluation of international development cooperation as follows; ①understanding of indicators, ②gap analysis and close baseline study, ③data cleansing, ④qualitative data collection, ⑤ quantitative data collection, ⑥complementary measures between qualitative data and quantitative data, ⑦separation between endowment effect and residual effect.

AIIB(Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) was established in 2016 with the aim of fostering sustainable economic development, creating wealth and improving infrastructure connectivity in Asia by investing in infrastructure and other productive sectors. This study forecasts the future direction of AIIB's business through review of AIIB’s business plan, sectoral strategy, infrastructure demand, and MDB’s private sector support policy. The main results of this study are as follows. First, according to the annual project plan, the proportion of self-conducting projects in the co-financing projects so far will increase, and the scale of support for private projects will gradually increase by increasing the proportion of non-sovereign financing. Second, depending on the sector-specific strategy, future investments are expected to concentrate on expanding power supply networks, improving energy access, supplying public housing, developing new towns and industrial complexes, and expanding road and rail networks. Third, it is expected that private sector's participation in the infrastructure development market will be promoted as a way to solve the infrastructure supply limitation by public funding.

Korea’s green ODA is in line with the national development strategy of green growth promoted by the Lee Myung-bak administration. Green ODA is characterized by eco-friendly technologies and climate change response strategies. On the other hand, it is characterized by Korea's experience and know-how in economic growth to secure Korea's green initiatives in the international community and expand its economic influence in developing countries. Since establishing diplomatic relations with the U.S., Vietnam has achieved economic and social development very quickly by utilizing foreign direct investment and the ODA of developed countries. In particular, it featured taking strategies to solve global climate change risks and domestic environmental problems while accelerating economic growth through international development cooperation funds. In addition, Vietnam established the National Green Growth Strategy(VGGS) by benchmarking Korea and actively utilized Korea's Green ODA to implement it. Strategic green ODA projects such as 'Vietnam Green Growth Strategy Master Plan Establishment Project' was implemented in line with the purpose of exporting national development strategy of Korea, a donor country, and the inflow of funds for international development cooperation of Vietnam, a recipient country. Through this case, we were able to check the performance and availability of Korea's development consulting-type green ODA. On the other hand, however, it confirmed the fact that the particularity of the recipient country, Vietnam, with excessive ownership, has limited the establishment and implementation of green growth strategies in developing countries. This reversal of hierarchy and excessive ownership of the recipient country are not general feature of development cooperation projects and can be obstacles to cooperative governance.

The purpose of this study is to contribute to enhancing the sustainability of international development cooperation projects. Notably, this study suggests ways to strengthen the sustainability of agricultural cooperation projects by adjusting a principal-agent relationship, which has been restricted to the project cycle. To do so, it describes the agricultural technology dissemination projects in Africa and evaluates them through in-depth interviews with the final beneficiaries in Malawi and Zimbabwe. As a result, the target group was observed to ameliorate the principal-agent problem. The participants had begun to act directly as principals of the development project using a resident-driven or government-led method. This research proposes that the activities and effectiveness of international cooperation projects could continue by changing the role of participants into principals of the project at the end of the project.

This study aims to identify employment centers and investigate the determinants of employment center formation for the Seoul metropolitan area (SMA) during the 1980-2015 period. In doing so, we use a Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and cutoff method for identifying employment centers, and a logit panel regression model for analyzing determinants of employment center formation. The empirical findings can be summarized as follows: 1) the number of employment centers has increased from three in 1980 to eight in 2015, indicating that the SMA has experienced a significant spatial transformation to polycentricity over the last 35 years, 2) new suburban subcenters have emerged since 2010 along with Seoul’s satellite cities such as Sungnam, Anyang, Suwon, and Bucheon, and 3) accessibility to labor market (population density), accessibility to subway station, and specialization on FIRE industry (Finance, Insurance, Real estate) are key determinants for employment center formation in the SMA.

Numerous studies have recently shown that many young college graduates are overeducated at the start of their career due to the historically unprecedented expansion of universities since the 1990s. Although several empirical studies have paid attention to the incidence of educational mismatch of young college graduates and its impacts on wages, most existing studies have overlooked spatial variation of incidence of educational mismatch of young college graduates and its impacts on wages across regions. Moreover, these studies have only used cross-sectional data in estimating the wage equation under a standard OLS framework. This paper examines the educational mismatch of young college graduates and its impacts of wages in capital and non-capital regions in Korea based on Hausman-Taylor model. The data used in this study are drawn from the Youth Panel 2007 for the period of 2007−2016 and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles in Korea. We find that overeducated young college graduates in capital regions and undereducated young college graduates in capital and non-capital regions receive wage penalties for extra year of schooling when compared to young workers who have a high school diploma and less in their regions.

Cross-regional and cooperative projects is a very useful regional development strategy to maximize the value of local assets. This study was conducted to analyze the determinant factors for cross-regional and cooperative projects. To achieve this goal, this study develops evaluation areas and criteria to analyze the determinant factors for cross-regional and cooperative projects using analytic hierarchy process. In the analysis of determinant factors for cross-regional and cooperative projects, the four issues were identified as followed: Socio-economic impact were evaluated as a significant determinant factors of cross-regional and cooperative projects; the institutional tools for environmental friendly land use and growth management should be established; the guidelines for government financial assistance in connection with cross-regional and cooperative projects should be required; the cross-regional and cooperative planning is included in national land planning system.

The objective of this paper is to examine the perception of public expertise and its effect on performances in government. To this end, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and a structural equation model were used to assess the current perception of expertise among public officials and to identify the relationship between the components of expertise and the performances in government. A survey of 318 public officials in emergency management was conducted. The results of the analysis showed that the largest discrepancy between the current and desired level of expertise centered on knowledge and experience. SEM results showed that knowledge is directly connected with coordination and problem-solving. Second, although problem-solving is directly connected with coordination and individual performance, its connection with organizational performance is only through coordination or individual performance. Third, although neither knowledge nor experience is directly connected with the individual performance or organizational performance, they are connected through problem solving or coordination.