• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.25-48
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• 2023

The current article has explored the effect of productive capacities (as defined by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) and of structural economic vulnerability (as defined by the United Nations) on fiscal space volatility in developing countries. It relies on the definition and measure of fiscal space proposed by Aizenman and Jinjarak (2010; 2011) and Aizenman et al. (2019). To compute the indicator of fiscal space and hence that of fiscal space volatility, fiscal space is considered as the ratio of outstanding public debt to the 'de facto tax base', the latter being the number of years of tax revenues needed for a country to repay its debt. Results based on a sample of 116 countries from 2000 to 2018 have revealed that the enhancement of productive capacities is associated with lower fiscal space volatility, while higher structural economic vulnerability heightens fiscal space volatility. On another note, highly vulnerable countries tend to experience a higher negative effect of productive capacities on fiscal space volatility than relatively less vulnerable countries.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권1호
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• pp.3-24
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• 2018

Stories are important instruments for configuring our cognitive and social worlds, but they do not necessarily make us more caring or less aggressive and self-involved. The ability to tell and follow a story requires cognitive capacities that are basic to the neurobiology of mental functioning, and so it would stand to reason that our experiences with stories would draw on and re-shape patterns of interaction that extend beyond the immediate experience of reading or listening to a narrative. Our intuitive, bodily-based ability to understand the actions of other people is fundamental to social relations, including the circuit between the representation of a configured action emplotted in a narrative and the reader's or listener's activity of following the story as we assimilate its patterns into the figures that shape our worlds. The activity of following a narrative can have a variety of beneficial or potentially noxious social consequences, either promoting the shared intentionality that neurobiologically oriented cultural anthropologists identify as a unique human capacity supporting culturally productive collaboration, or habitualizing and thereby naturalizing particular patterns of perception into rigid ideological constructs. The doubling of "me" and "not-me" in narrative acts of identification may promote the "we-intentionality" that makes socially beneficial cooperation possible, or it can set off mimetic conflict and various contagion effects. Neuroscience cannot predict what the social consequences of narrative will be, but it can identify the brain- and body-based processes through which (for better or worse) stories exercise social power.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.7-17
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• 2012

The aim of this study is to empirically explore micro and macroeconomic factors affecting the Pakistani sugar industries and searching the energy potential of this industry, through the survey of literature. The empirical part has been explored by employing Vector Autoregression (VAR), Granger Causality tests and simultaneous equation models through quarterly data for the period of 1991q2-2008q4. The study also aims to devise policies for the development of sugar industries and identify its growing importance for the energy sector of Pakistan. Empirical tests applied on the domestic prices of sugar, domestic interest rates, and exchange rate, productive capacities of sugar mills, per capita income, world sugar prices on cultivable area and sugar production reveal very useful results. Results reveal an improvement of productive capacity of the sugar mills of Pakistan on account of increasing crushing capacity of this sector. Negative effect of rising wholesale prices on the harvesting area was also observed. Profit earnings of the sugar mills significantly increase with the rise of sugar prices but the system does not exist for the farming community to share the rising prices of sugar. The models indicate positive and significant effect of local prices of sugar on its volume of import. Another of the findings of this study positively relates the local sugar markets with the international prices of sugar. Additionally, the causality tests results reveal exchange rate, harvesting area and overall output of sugarcane to have significant effects on the local prices of sugar. Similarly, import of sugar, interest rate, per capita consumption of sugar, per capita national income and the international prices of sugar also significantly affect currency exchange rate of Pakistani rupee in terms of US$. The study also finds sugar as an essential and basic necessity of the Pakistani consumers. That is why there are no significant income and price effects on the per capita consumption of sugar in Pakistan. All the empirical methods reiterate the relationship of variables. Economic policy makers are recommended to improve governance and management in the production, stock taking, internal and external trading and distribution of sugar in Pakistan using bumper crop policies. Macroeconomic variables such as interest rate, exchange rate per capita income and consumption are closely connected with the production and distribution of sugar in Pakistan. The cartelized role of the sugar industries should also be examined by further studies. There is need to further explore sugar sector of Pakistan with the perspective of energy generation through this sector; cartelized sugar markets in Pakistan and many more other dimensions of this sector. Exact appraisal of sugar industries for energy generation can be done appropriately by the experts from applied sciences.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.79-92
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• 2006

Environmental capacity assessment of Busan city was conducted to provide basis for planning on sustainable development and growth of the city. Using Onish model, assessment was carried out on amenities and service facilities for the citizens of Busan city. Ecological Footprint model was used to judge if the city exceeds the its environmental capacity and to estimate the extent of the excess if it exists. The analysis using Onish model revealed that the citizens of Busan city are generally well supported by the infrastructure and service facilities of the city. Water treatment and supply facilities have enough capabilities to support the city, whereas the relatively low rate of sanitary sewer supply (78%) suggests the need for further improvement in the wastewater area. The capacities of sanitary landfills are found sufficient enough to support the city for the next 10 years. The high value for the line length served per capita in the subway sector hints on certain inconvenience of commuters. All the air quality indicators meet the Korean and WHO standards except for $NO_2$. The ecological footprint model analysis produced EF indicators for Busan city of 3.04 ha/person and 2.54 ha/person for the years of 1993 and 2003, respectively. The decrease of the indicator from 1993 to 2003 is mainly due to the incorporation of Gijang area by Busan city in 1995, suggesting the importance of the ecologically productive area in the evaluation using this model. The analysis on the ecological deficit that is based on ecologically productive land shows that the consumption by Busan city exceeds its ecologically available production by 19,600% as of 2003. The area needed to support the consumption of Busan city in 2003 is 123 times as large as the present area of Busan city, which is substantially lower than the multiplier (742) obtained for Seoul city in 1997 but is higher than those observed for Chongju city (71 in 1999) and Ulsan city (39 in 2001).

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.211-227
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 인기 캐릭터 '펭수'의 성장기를 통해 주목할 만한 문화 현상을 형성 중인 EBS의 유튜브 채널 <자이언트 펭TV>의 스토리텔링 전략을 분석하고 트랜스미디어 스토리텔링으로의 이행 가능성을 검토하는 데 있다. 독보적인 캐릭터 '펭수'를 중심으로 한 <자이언트 펭TV>의 유관 텍스트들을 대상으로 비판적 담론분석(CDA)의 텍스트 및 담론 수행 차원의 분석을 위해 헨리 젠킨스의 트랜스미디어 스토리텔링의 7대 원칙 10요소에의 부합 여부를 검토한 결과, '다양성'을 제외한 모든 요소들을 비교적 만족스럽게 충족시키고 있음이 확인되었다. 특히 성공적인 트랜스미디어 스토리텔링으로 이행하기 위해필수적인 '확산성', '몰입성', '세계관 구축', '연속성', '탐구성', '사용자 참여성'의 주요 항목에서의 우수성이 두드러졌다. 또한 CDA의 사회문화적 수행 차원의 분석을 위해 관련 뉴스 키워드를 검토한 결과 전 연령층의 사용자들을 단기간에 매료시킨 <자이언트 펭TV>의 스토리텔링은 '사회 통합과 소통·공감', '권위 타파', '자존감과 합리적 개인주의', '성 중립성' 및 '생태주의 감수성'의 맥락에서 브랜딩 및 유통 극대화에 매우 유리한 연계성이 확인되었다. 본 연구의 시사점은 <자이언트 펭TV>의 트랜스미디어 스토리텔링으로서의 이행 가능성 및 스토리텔링 전략상의 강점을 학술적으로 검증했다는데 있다. 전 세대를 아우르며 장수하는 콘텐츠가 그리 많지 않은 국내에서 단비처럼 찾아온 <자이언트펭TV>가 건강한 브랜드 파워를 유지할 수 있도록 그 스토리텔링의 진화에 대한 다양한 논의와 고민을 이어갈 필요가 있다.

• 한국사회정책
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.37-71
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• 2018

2016년 이후 기본소득에 대한 학술적 관심을 넘어, 대중적, 정치적 관심이 증폭되었다. 이와함께 기본소득논쟁은 추상적 차원의 논쟁을 넘어 구체적 실행과 관련된 이슈들로 확장되었다. 본 연구는 기본소득에 대한 사회정책 분야의 주요 비판을 살펴보고 이에 대한 반론을 제기한다. 기존의 기본소득에 대한 주요 비판을 요약하면 다음과 같다, 첫째, 일자리 문제와 사회보험 사각지대 문제는 기본소득을 필요로 할 만큼 심각하지 않다. 둘째, 기본소득의 과도한 재정소요로 기존 사회보장 제도들이 구축될 것이다. 셋째, 기본소득보다 기술변화에 대응할 수 있도록 시민들의 역량을 배양하는 정책이 우선되어야 한다. 본 연구의 반론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 고용변화의 장기적 추세, 새롭게 등장하는 플랫폼 기업의 고용 경향 및 플랫폼 노동과 사회보험의 부정합 등을 볼 때 기본소득 중심 복지국가 재구성은 필연적이다. 둘째, 사회보장제도 구축론은 우파 버전의 기본소득에 적용될 수 있는 비판일 뿐이며, 서구 복지국가 발달의 역사나 기존 연구들을 볼 때 기본소득이 기존 사회보장제도를 구축할 것이라는 근거는 없다. 오히려 공유자산에 대한 과세를 통한 기본소득은 기존의 복지국가 제도들과 공존할 수 있다. 셋째, 기본소득과 사회보장 제도의 양자택일 논쟁이 아니라 상호보완적이고 노동시장 정합적인 패키지로 어떻게 재구성할지 논의가 필요하다. 넷째, 탈노동은 노동에 대한 자유로운 선택이 가능한 상태를 의미하며, 사회보장의 기본원칙은 욕구가 아니라 권리이다. 그리고 결론에서는 기본소득 논쟁이 더 생산적이기 위해서 기능적 관점을 넘어 분배정의 관점에서의 논쟁, 사회보험 중심 복지국가의 지속가능성에 대한 논쟁, 기본소득의 정치적 실현가능성에 대한 보다 정교한 논쟁과 비판이 필요함을 제안하였다.