• 무역학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.221-243
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• 2016

본 연구는 중앙아시아국가들과 대구·경북 지역의 무역활성화를 위한 방안을 제시하기 위함을 목적으로 한다. 새로운 신흥 시장으로 성장하고 있는 중앙아시아지역과 현재의 교역 현황을 분석하였다. 또한 중력모형분석을 통하여 중앙아시아 지역의 국제화가 교역량 증가에 긍정적인 영향을 미친다는 사실을 입증하였다. 이를 바탕으로 교역활성화를 위한 국가적 정책 수립과 민간차원에서 접근해야할 방법에 대하여 제시하였다. 또한 대구·경북 지역의 교역 활성화를 위해 지역차원에서 이루어져야 할 해결책에 대하여 논의하였다.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제68권
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• pp.123-148
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• 2015

Central Asian Countries had been independent in 1991 from USSR. Since then it have been increasing foreign trade and investment amount with outside countries including China, Japan, EU and South Korea. Korean enterprises and entities have endeavored to secure plentiful natural resources, oil and gas energy and expand the market share to exporting the consuming and industrial competitive goods and services for those countries. In the case of disputes of commercial transactions and investment, arbitration is regarded as a dispute resolution system which has been preferred in international transactions and investments by the business world. Since the collapse of the USSR, Central Asian Countries have worked to modernize its arbitration law and procedure to conform with international standard rules. Arbitral legislation in Central Asian countries is based on the Model Law as adopted in 1985. However, CIS's legislation systems of arbitration are not satisfied with the international standard in national laws and practices. That is the reason to consider for the specific parliament about arbitration for the dispute resolutions in the commercial transaction and investment between Korean enterprises and CIS. In this article, it is discuss problems and its alternatives in the dispute resolution about the commercial transaction and investment into Central Asian countries including the tendency to the increasing the trade volumes of goods and investment between South Korea and CIS. According to this article, South Korea consider the long term strategy followed the preferred economic relative partnership for business success on commercial transaction and investment with the Central Asian Countries.

• 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.154-165
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• 2015

유라시아의 문화유산에 대한 연구와 정책 동향을 조명한다면 그 범위가 너무 넓어 한두 가지 맥락으로 일목요연하게 정리할 수는 없지만 그래도 나름대로 공통적 특성은 발견할 수 있을 것이다. 특히 중앙아시아 국가들을 중심으로 살펴보면 일부 국가들의 경우 정책수단의 근본이 되는 문화유산 관련 법령이 잘 갖추어지지 않은 것을 발견할 수 있다. 이들이 독립국가가 된 것이 오래되지 않았고 일부 국가들에서 볼 수 있듯이 경제적 어려움 속에서 법령을 정교하게 다듬어 집행할 여력이 없었기 때문이다. 문화유산에 대한 연구도 자체 능력보다는 외국과의 협력을 통해 진행하는 경우가 많은데 발굴사업의 예에서 보듯이 유럽을 중심으로 한 외국 연구기관과의 협력 아래 진행하는 연구가 다수를 차지한다. 유네스코에서도 중앙아시아 실크로드 문화유산의 일련번호 지정사업을 통해 중앙아시아 및 실크로드 국가들이 문화유산을 보호하고 향후 잠정목록에 올릴 수 있도록 지원하고 있다. 문화유산의 보호 활동은 국가별 차이는 있으나 전반적으로 보아 예산과 전문 인력 등의 부족으로 효과적인 활동을 하지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 특히 세계문화유산이나 기록 유산의 등재 활동은 풍부한 자원을 가지고 있음에도 상당히 미약하여 향후 이런 분야에 대한 협력을 강화해야할 것이다. 근래에 문화유산과 관광을 결합한 새로운 형태의 정책 수립과 연구방향이 시도되고 있다. 다소의 부정적 측면이 있음에도 중앙아시아 및 실크로드 국가들은 이런 시도를 환영하고 있다. 향후 우리나라는 이들 국가들과 연구네트워크를 형성하여 문화유산 정책과 연구활동의 많은 분야에서 협력을 강화할 것이 기대된다.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.311-368
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• 2009

자원전쟁 시대에 한국 경제가 생존하고 번영하기 위해서는 다양한 노력이 필요하다. 자원의 자주개발률 제고, 신재생에너지 공급비중 확대 등과 함께 자원부국과의 경제협력 확대가 요구되고 있다. 안정적인 국민 경제 발전에 필수적인 원자재의 안정적 확보 및 신규 해외시장 개척의 중요성이 더욱 높아지고 있다. 특히 한국의 경우 에너지의 97%를 수입에 의존하고 있는 상황에서 해외자원개발을 통한 자주개발률을 높이는 것이 매우 중요한 국가적 과제가 되고 있고, 그러한 관점에서 풍부한 천연자원을 보유하고 있어 중앙아시아 지역은 한국의 해외 에너지 자원개발과 에너지 안보 보장을 위해 매우 중요한 지역이다. 중앙아시아는 지리적 거리감에도 불구하고 한국과 정치 경제 민족적으로 매우 밀접한 관련을 가진다. 그러나 한국의 중앙아시아 진출은 아직까지 미약하며 체계적인 정책수립의 초기 단계에 머물고 있다. 미국, 일본, 중국, EU 등 주요국의 중앙아시아 진출 전략에서 보듯이 한국의 경우 우선적으로 중앙아시아에서 지속적으로 국가 이미지를 제고해야 할 것이다. ODA 지원 확대, ADB 등 국제기구의 중앙아시아 지원 사업 적극 참여 등을 통해 중장기적인 관점에서 안정적인 중앙아시아 진출 기반 확대를 도모해야 할 것이다. 정부의 적극적인 중앙아시아 진출 환경 조성 노력 하에 대기업뿐만 아니라 중소기업들의 활발한 진출이 이루어지도록 유도해야 한다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2015

During the last two decades the idea that central bank independence and transparency helps to maintain price stability, became popular among economists and central bankers. Many countries' governments give their monetary authorities higher independence and transparency to achieve the price stability goal. However, emerging countries such as Kazakhstan, suffer from high inflation. This inflation occurs largely due to a low level of independence and transparency of central banks. This research project measures the current level of independence and transparency of central bank of Kazakhstan. Indices were used to measure central bank independence and transparency. Central bank independence was measured by two types of indices: based on central bank laws (legal independence) and based on central banks governor's turnover (TOR). Developing countries have a weak legal framework, implying that a legal independence index cannot be appropriate to use as a measures of actual independence. Therefore, by paying attention to the other two indices, we can say that the central bank of Kazakhstan has a low level of independence and transparency. This, in turn, can be one of the causes of high inflation in Kazakhstan.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.2857-2870
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• 2015

Although the incidence of breast cancer in Asia remains lower than in North America, Western Europe, and Oceania, rates have been increasing rapidly during the past few decades, and Asian countries now account for 40% of breast cancer cases diagnosed worldwide. Breast cancer mortality has also increased among Asian women, in contrast to decreased mortality in Northern America, Western Europe, and Oceania. These increased rates are associated with higher prevalence of breast cancer risk factors (e.g., reduced parity, delayed childbirth, increased obesity) that have accompanied economic development throughout the region. However, Asian regions (western, south-central, south-eastern, and eastern) and countries differ in the types and magnitude of changes in breast cancer risk factors, and cannot be viewed as a single homogeneous group. The objective of this paper was to contrast the heterogeneous epidemiology of breast cancer by Asian regions and countries, and to suggest potential avenues for future research.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2022

This study uses the panel probit model to investigate and evaluate the relationship between exchange rate regimes, political stability, and carbon dioxide during currency crises. To understand currency crisis times, we study a panel dataset of seven South Asian nations that contain annual observations from 1996 to 2020. Furthermore, we created the EMPI exchange market pressure indicator to detect crises. Our results strongly suggested that fixed exchange rate is negatively associated with currency crises, with good regulatory quality and better effective governments. Simultaneously, the floating exchange rate is positively related to the currency crises in those countries where the rule of law has less adequately flowed. However, CO₂, exports, and interest rates are buoyantly associated with crises. The floating exchange rate, the rule of law, exports, and interest rate are associated positively and contribute more prone to the crisis episodes. Negatively associated variables contributed less amid crises episodes: fixed exchange rate regime, government effectiveness, and regulatory quality. Meanwhile, CO₂ has a positive relationship with a currency crisis and contributes more likelihood to the probability of a currency crisis. Countries that adopted the fixed exchange rates with effective governments and regulatory quality faced more minor currency crises.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.342-356
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• 2019

Background: The objectives of the study are to find out the effect of the implementing reform in three Central Asian countries, identify its impact on health status and health care delivery systems. This study address to identify strong and weak points of the health systems and provide a recommendation for further health care organization. Methods: A comparative analysis was conducted to evaluate the effects of implemented policy on health care system efficiency and equity. Secondary data were collected on selected health indicators using information from the World Health Organization Global Health Expenditure Database, European Health Information Platform, and World Bank Open Data. Results: In terms of population status, countries achieved relatively good results. Infant mortality and under-5 mortality rate decreased in all countries; also, life expectancy increased, and it was more than 70 years. Regulations of the health systems are still highly centralized, and the Ministry of Health is the main organ responsible for national health policy developing and implementation. Among the three countries, only Kyrgyzstan was successful in introducing a national health system. Distribution of health expenditure between public expenditure and out-of-pocket payments was decreased, and out-of-pocket payments were less the 50% of total health expenditure in all countries, in 2014. Conclusion: After independent, all three countries implemented a certain number of the policy reform, mostly it was directed to move away from the old the Soviet system. Subsequent reform should be focused on evidence-based decision making and strengthening of primary health care in terms of new public health concepts.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.197-224
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• 2005

Recently, the notion of National Innovation System (NIS) has attracted considerable attention as a key driver of the economic success. Amongst others, the Northeast Asian countries deserve highlight as central cases of NIS. This research attempts to examine inter-industrial knowledge flows and structure among Northeast Asian countries. To this end, Korea, Japan and Taiwan are selected and the patent citation data, a proxy of disembodied knowledge flows, from United Stated Patents and Trademark Office (USPTO) are employed for cluster analysis and network analysis. Some meaningful findings are presented and distinctive characteristics of respective countries are contrasted.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.517-525
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• 2021

The study investigates the behavior of Asian banks in response to the subprime mortgage crisis and examines how countries that have experimented with a mix of conventional and Islamic banking managed their balance sheet during that period. The study carries out an independent mean t-test comparing the difference of leverage of 464 conventional commercial Asian banks pre- and post-crisis from the largest twenty-five Asian economies based on GDP (2007). The analysis uses 10-year unbalanced panel data of conventional banks and employs the generalized least squares estimation using a dummy variable event window method to capture the response of Asian banks. The study finds evidence of a structural change in the capital structure of Asian commercial banks in response to the financial crisis. Findings suggest that conventional banks increased their capital position more in countries that have both Islamic and conventional banking than those countries without Islamic banking services. By having Islamic banking in their product portfolio, countries can exert market discipline on conventional banks. The study identifies a significant role of global macroeconomic shocks on banks liability structure decision-making. Evidence shows that this increase in capital positioning by banks was a permanent rather than a temporary response.