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Market Oriented Revenue Assistance for Farmers: A Case Study of the United State's ACRE Program

  • Zulauf, Carl;Rhew, Chan-Hee;Kim, Sang-Hyo
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2016
  • Purpose - Intense debate is occurring over support for farmers in Korea, specifically on the justification, policy design, and equality issues of the farm support programs. Given this debate, a new type of farm program in the US, a market flexible revenue program(the Average Crop Revenue Election, ACRE), is examined. ACRE stands in contrast to traditional programs that tie payments to price and have parameters that are fixed or change only infrequently. Research design, data, and methodology - Based on the ACRE program formulas, the potential payments are estimated by crop year, program crop and geographical area using the FSA acreage and payment rate data. Results - If all US farm program acres were in ACRE over the 2009-2013 crop years, payments would have totaled $7.95 billion or 1.2 percent of average market receipts for US crops. Enacting ACRE as a revenue program instead of a similarly-structured price-only program increased payments by $1.75 billion or 28 percent. Conclusions - Potential payments by ACRE largely reflected the distribution of the value of production across the program crops eligible for ACRE as well as across state geographical areas. If program parameters can be made acceptable and if data availability issues can be addressed, market flexible revenue programs offer a farm policy option that can address many of the concerns that have arisen over farm policy in Korea.

Analysis of the Policy Efficiency of the Environment-Friendly Farming Zone Program (친환경농업지구 조성사업의 효율성 분석)

  • Heo, Seung-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.581-591
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    • 2014
  • This study analyze the policy efficiency of the environment-friendly farming zone program using data envelopment analysis. On analyzed results, the average policy efficiency is 0.185 and 98.3% of zones are inefficient. 97.8% of zones are in increasing returns to scales. The empirical results indicate that more work need to be done to increase the efficiency of the program.

Analysis of the Effects of a Health Policy Capacity Development Education Program as a Public-Private Partnership Model in Official Development Assistance for Health Policy Administrators (공적개발원조와 민관협력 사업에서의 보건정책 역량강화 교육 프로그램 효과 분석)

  • Lee, Sang Hun;Park, Kyung Min;Lee, Eunsuk
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.140-149
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: This study analyzed the effects of a health policy capacity development education program as a publicprivate partnership (PPP) model in official development assistance (ODA) for health policy administrators. Methods: Between October 2015 and September 2017, 41 participants from underdeveloped countries completed the three-week education program at K university, following the official selection process of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and each country's embassy. Results: The effects of the health policy capacity development education program differed significantly according to participants' age (p=.043), country region (p=.045), and academic or professional degree (p=.007). Academic or professional degree significantly predicted the effects of the program (β=.41, p=.007), explaining 21.7% of the variance in the regression model. Conclusion: The current selection process for ODA program participants considers recommendations from each country's embassy to determine eligible candidates. The hosting institution's opinions or suggestions regarding participants' professional expertise or work experience, country region, or demographic characteristics should also be considered in the participant selection process.

Firm Characteristics and Modes of University-Industry Collaboration: Cases of Japan and Thailand

  • Pittayasophon, Siriporn;Intarakumnerd, Patarapong;Sumikura, Koichi;Saito, Hiromi;Suzuki, Jun
    • STI Policy Review
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.17-39
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    • 2016
  • Despite the importance of university-industry collaboration, issues pertaining to the characteristics of collaborating firms, their modes of interaction, and the relationship between these modes and outcomes are not well-researched. The impact of country's development on these issues is also unclear. This case study examines Japan and Thailand-respectively representing developed and developing countries-and features the following key findings: 1) the characteristics of firms affect modes, with large Japanese firms being more collaborative with universities, whereas Thai SMEs significantly collaborate more with universities; 2) the relationship between modes in Thai firms is stronger than those of Japanese firms because in Thailand, perhaps due to weak technological capacity, R&D collaboration is conducted alongside university consultancy services; and 3) in Japan, R&D and human resource development collaboration lead to product innovation, whereas different outcomes are expected from different modes in Thailand. Apparently, trivial informal collaborations do have significant impact on innovation.

A Study on Development of Policy Attributes Taxonomy for Data-based Decision Making (데이터기반 의사결정을 위한 정책 및 사업 속성 분류체계 개발 연구)

  • Kim, Sarang
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.1-34
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    • 2020
  • Purpose Due to the complexity of policy environment in modern society, it is accepted as common basics of policy design to mix up a variety of policy instruments aiming the multiple functions. However, under the current situation of written-down policy specification, not only the public officers but also the policy researchers cannot easily grasp such frameworks as policy portfolio. The purpose of this study is to develop "Policy Attributes Taxonomy" identifying and classifying the public programs to help making decisions for allocative efficiency with effectiveness-based information. Design/methodology/approach To figure out the main scheme and classification criteria of Policy Attributes Taxonomy which represents characteristics of public policies, previous theories and researches on policy components were explored. In addition, to test taxonomic feasibility of certain information system, a set of "Feasibility Standards" was drawn from "requirements for well-organized criteria" of eminent taxonomy literatures. Finally, current government classification system in the area of social service was tested to visualize the application of Taxonomy and Standards. Findings Program Taxonomy Schemes were set including "policy goals", "policy targets", "policy tools", "logical relation" and "delivery system". Each program and project could be condensed into these attributes, making their design more easily distinguishable. Policy portfolio could be readily made out by extracting certain characteristics according to this scheme. Moreover, this taxonomy could be used for rearrangement of present "Program Budget System" or estimation of "Basic Income".

Health Care Reform in OECD Countries : A Comparative Policy Analysis (OECD 국가의 보건의료개혁 : 역사적 전망과 정책적 과제)

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    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-28
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    • 1996
  • The paper analyzes OECD health systems from the perspective of historical institutionalism. Criticizing the dependence of Korea's national health program on Pacific countries such as Japan and the U.S., it suggests that European experiences of national health programs can be a model of the Korean health system in the future. Based on an inquiry into Italian and British cases of national health systems, the author emphasizes (1) the role of local governemts in national health programs, and (2) the integration of a national health program with public health programs.

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System Dynamics Application for the Evaluation of Greenhouse Gases Reduction Policy (시스템다이내믹스 기법을 이용한 온실가스 감축정책 평가)

  • Jang, Namjung;Kim, Min-Kyong;Yang, Go-Su
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.55-68
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    • 2013
  • It is necessary to evaluate the greenhouse gases (GHGs) reduction policy by central and regional governments to set up the suitable GHG emissions measures. Quantitative, qualitative and synthetic methods have been adopted by previous researches to estimate GHG reduction policy. However, these methods mostly focused on the results of the reduction policy, rather than understanding and fixing the integrated structures of GHG emissions. In this research, System Dynamics(SD) was applied to 1 million green homes program, self-carfree-day system and carbon point program. The results showed that SD analyses could be appliable for the estimation of GHG reduction policy by developing the feedback loops and dynamic simulation model. SD can be consider as a supplementary tool to estimate the GHG reduction policies through the recognition of the structure in complex real system.

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An Analysis of Consumer Preferences among Wireless LAN and Mobile Internet Services

  • Ahn, Ji-Woon;Lee, Jong-Su;Lee, Jeong-Dong;Kim, Tai-Yoo
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.205-215
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    • 2006
  • Wireless data communication (WDC) services are increasingly penetrating the market. The two main alternative WDC technologies are wireless LAN and mobile Internet. Services based on these technologies display differences in quality attributes such as terminal device, data transmission speed, pricing scheme and so on. How consumers choose between these two alternatives will be determined by their preferences regarding such quality attributes. In turn, their preferences will affect the evolution of WDC services and related technologies. This study employs a conjoint analysis of consumer valuations of quality attributes of wireless LAN and mobile Internet services. Respondents rate hypothetical service alternatives featuring various combinations of quality attributes. By estimating consumer willingness to pay for the attributes of WDC services, the authors predict the evolution of WDC services and related technologies along various quality dimensions, make a comparison with the results of a previous study, and draw policy implications for national-and company-level R&D strategies.

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