The South Korean Development Experience

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The South Korean Development Experience

   • Eun Mee Kim, Pil Ho Kim

   Pages 1-6

3. From Development to Development Cooperation: Foreign Aid, Country Ownership, and the Developmental State in South Korea

   • Eun Mee Kim, Pil Ho Kim

   Pages 7-25

4. The Effect of Aid Allocation: An Econometric Analysis of Grant Aid and Concessional Loans to South Korea, 1953–1978

   • Jaewoo Lee

   Pages 26-46

5. Coordination and Capacity-Building in U.S. Aid to South Korea, 1945–1975

   • Jinkyung Kim, Pil Ho Kim

   Pages 47-64

6. Aid Effectiveness and Fragmentation: Changes in Global Aid Architecture and South Korea as an Emerging Donor

   • Eun Mee Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Jae Eun Lee

   Pages 65-82

7. The Capability Enhancing Developmental State: Concepts and National Trajectories

   • Peter B. Evans

   Pages 83-110

8. South Korea’s Development Experience as an Aid Recipient: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa

   • Monday Lewis Igbafen

   Pages 111-135

9. The Politicization of Humanitarian Assistance: Aid and Security on the Korean Peninsula

   • Brendan Howe, Dong Jin Kim

   Pages 136-171

10. Conclusion: Beyond Aid

    • Eun Mee Kim

    Pages 172-182

11. Back Matter

    Pages 183-186

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This volume explores South Korea's successful transition from an underdeveloped, authoritarian country to a modern industrialized democracy. South Korea's experience of foreign aid gives a unique perspective on how to use foreign aid for economic development as well as how to build a strong partnership between developed and developing countries.

• Aid
• development
• South Korea
• economy
• donor
• cooperation
• coordination
• democracy
• state
• transition
• development aid
• development theory

• Ewha Womans University, South Korea

  Eun Mee Kim

• Lewis and Clark College, Portland, USA

  Pil Ho Kim

Eun Mee Kim is Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha University, Korea. Her previous posts include Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. She is the author of Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (1997).
 
Pil Ho Kim is Scholar in Residence at Lewis and Clark College, USA. Previously he taught at Ewha University in Korea and the Ohio State University.

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