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Politics of State-led Microcredit under the Lee Myung-bak Administration: State Autonomy, Capacity, and Outcomes

  • Choi, Jongho;Jung, Heon Joo
    • Analyses & Alternatives
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.5-37
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    • 2020
  • In the 2000s, financial exclusion of low-income people emerged as a major social problem in South Korea. Microcredit business was first introduced by NGOs to help the poor overcome poverty while the Korean government soon chose to initiate microcredit policies to assist financially marginalized low-income people as a key policy measure to alleviate social inequality and revitalize economy. Unlike the initial expectation that state intervention in microcredit industry would be more effective, the outcome has been much less impressive. This paper aims to examine the poor performance of state-led microcredit in South Korea during the period of Lee Myung-bak administration by employing the concepts of state autonomy and capacity. It finds that the state autonomy, a key characteristic of a developmental state, was high in the sense that the funds had been raised in the face of strong resistance from private financial institutions. Lack of state capacity such as low technocratic expertise and politicization of microcredit policy, however, turned out to be a major stumbling block to the state-led microcredit in South Korea. This study shows that although the Korean government still has strong willingness to intervene in the financial market even in the face of interest groups' opposition, the eventual success of state action largely depends on its capacity to effectively implement financial policies.

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Analysis of the Relationship between Familiarity, Feeling of Knowing, State Curiosity, and State Anxiety of Elementary School Students in the Thermal Task Contexts (열과 관련된 문제 상황에서 초등학생들이 느끼는 친숙도, 인지에 대한 지각, 상태호기심, 상태불안의 관계 분석)

  • Kang, Jihoon;Kim, Jina
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.433-448
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the tasks of thermal equilibrium and heat insulation concept were divided into scientific and everyday contexts to analyzed the level of familiarity, feeling of knowing, state curiosity, and state anxiety that students feel in task contexts and their relationship. The subjects of this study were One hundred nine students in sixth grade of elementary schools located in metropolitan cities. The results of this study were as follows. First, there was no difference in the level of feeling of knowing, state curiosity, and state anxiety in the task of scientific and everyday contexts. In the case of familiarity, there was no consistent tendency in the concept of thermal equilibrium and heat insulation. And the group who recognized the task context familiarly had higher feeling of knowing and lower state anxiety than the group who recognized the task context unfamiliarly. Second, familiarity and feeling of knowing showed high positive correlation, state anxiety and familiarity showed negative correlation, and state anxiety and feeling of knowing had also negative correlation. In addition, familiarity had a negative effect on state anxiety, and FOK had a positive effect on state curiosity and a negative effect on state anxiety. There was no significant moderating effect of the task context. Third, in case of state curiosity, the group perceived the knowledge gap was very small had the highest state curiosity, and the group perceived the knowledge gap was very large had the lowest state curiosity. In case of state anxiety, the less the knowledge gap was perceived, the lower the anxiety was triggered. This study broadens our understanding of the learning process and provides implications for effective instruction strategies for students' cognitive and emotional states.

Variation of State Boundary Surface of Remolded Weathered Mudstone soil by spacing ratio (공간비에 의한 재성형 이암 풍화토의 상태경계면 변화)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Jeon, Je-Sung;Lee, Jong-Wook;Kim, Je-Hong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.1095-1099
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    • 2008
  • Critical state theory involves two state boundary surface. One is Roscoe surface and the other is Hvorslev surface. The shape of these boundary surface was changed because of several parameters : Critical state constant(M), spacing ratio (r) and critical state pore pressure coefficient($\wedge$). As these constants make difference to each model and the way of solution, they may affect the shape of state boundary surface. Specially, spacing ratio (r) is important. On this study, triaxial compression test was performed using remolded weathered mudstone soil and investigated variation of state boundary surface because of spacing ratio. In the results of prediction, critical state point was located highly and the shape of boundary surface was changed more tightly curve as decreasing spacing ratio.

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The State Estimator Design for Servo system with Delayed Input (지연 입력을 가진 서보시스템의 상태 추정자 설계)

  • Shin, Doo-Jin;Kong, Jeong-Ja;Huh, Uk-Youl
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.607-614
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    • 1999
  • This paper deals with the design problem of the state estimator for servo system. The servo system has input time delay which depends on the computational time of control algorithm. The delayed input is a factor that brings out the state estimation error. So in order to reduce the state estimation error of the system, we propose a state estimator in which the delayed input of the system is considered. For this purpose, discrete time state space model is established accounting for the delayed input and a state estimator is designed based on this model. Kalman filter algorithm is employed in the design of the state estimator. The proposed estimator is used in the speed control of servo system with delayed input. Performance of the proposed state estimator is exemplified via simulations and experiments for servo system. Also, robustness of the proposed estimator to modeling error by variation of the system parameters is also shown in simulations.

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Direct Fabrication of a-Si:H Thin Film Transistor Arrays on Flexible Substrates: Critical Challenges and Enabling Solutions

  • O'Rourke, Shawn M.;Loy, Douglas E.;Moyer, Curt;Bawolek, Edward J.;Ageno, Scott K.;O'Brien, Barry P.;Marrs, Michael;Bottesch, Dirk;Dailey, Jeff;Naujokaitis, Rob;Kaminski, Jann P.;Allee, David R.;Venugopal, Sameer M.;Haq, Jesmin;Colaneri, Nicholas;Raupp, Gregory B.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.1459-1462
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    • 2008
  • In this paper we describe solutions to address critical challenges in direct fabrication of amorphous silicon thin film transistor (TFTs) arrays for active matrix flexible displays. For all flexible substrates a manufacturable handling protocol in automated display-scale equipment is required. For metal foil substrates the principal challenges are planarization and electrical isolation, and management of stress (CTE mismatch) during TFT fabrication. For plastic substrates the principal challenge is dimensional instability management.

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The System and Activity of Port State Control in Japan

  • Ichikawa, Yoshiro
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2000.05a
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    • pp.86-100
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    • 2000
  • The author of this document is generally in charge of Port State Control affairs at the headquarters of Ministry of Transport, Japan. In this document, the necessity of Port State Control, the brief history of japanese Port State Control and the present system of Port State Control in Japan are introduced. Also, the newest output of Japanese Port State Control which is an annual statistic of 1999 is explained, subsequently the policy and strategy on Port State Control in Japan is introduced.

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Seeing the State-nature Relation in South Korea from the Perspective of Political Ecology (한국의 국가와 자연의 관계에 대한 정치생태학적 연구를 위한 시론)

  • Hwang, Jin-Tae;Park, Bae-Gyoon
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.348-365
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    • 2013
  • This paper aims to examine the complexities of the state-nature relations in Korea by emphasizing the complex processes of interactions between the state and nature. In doing so, it relies on the literature of "political ecology of state-nature" which problematizes the conventional modernist views on nature assuming the dualistic separation between the state and nature. First, we critically review the existing Korean literature on the state-nature relation (e.g., the ecologism, the metabolic rift theory, the social construction of the nature, the green state thesis, etc.) and argue that these studies significantly lack the recognition of the interactions between the state and nature. Second, we discuss the possibilities of seeing the state-nature relations from the perspective of political ecology as an alternative approach to the state-nature relation. Last, we conclude that the political ecology approach to the state-nature can deepen our understandings of the Korean capitalist development.

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