• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.107-116
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• 2019

Korean construction engineering firms want to pave the way for expansion of overseas markets through the World Bank's Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects as a way to improve their overseas project performance. However, since the World Bank project competes with global companies for limited projects, building partnerships with suitable business partners is essential to gain an upper hand in bidding competition and meet the institutional conditions of the recipient country. In this regard, many network studies have been conducted in the past through Social Network Analysis (SNA), but few have been analyzed based on the process of changes in the network. So, This study collected winning data from the three Southeast Asian countries that ended after the World Bank's ODA project performed smoothly, and established a learning-based link prediction model that reflected the dynamic nature of the network. As a result, the 11 main variables acting on building a cooperative relationship between winning companies were derived and the effect of each variables on the probability value of cooperation between individual links was identified.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.197-206
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• 2015

Objectives : This study presents comparison results of the correlations between ODA grants and health indicators among 23 countries in Asia. Methods : Data from 2005~2013 were collected through the World Development Indicator (WDI) provided by the World Bank (WB). The health-related variables used in this study included the maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality rate under five, infant mortality rate, incidence of tuberculosis, and prevalence of AIDS. Results : Based on the results, there were positive correlations between ODA grants and health indicators, which means that the overall ODA grants would drop when the health indicators improved. As for differences in the health indicators by income groups among the countries, there were differences in the maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality rate under five, infant mortality rate, and overall ODA grants. The maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality rate under five, and infant mortality rate were lower in the order of upper middle, lower middle, and poorest income countries. Conclusions : The findings raise a need for the integrated and horizontal development of Goals 4, 5 and 6 of MDGs in the ODA projects of health sector in the future.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.69-93
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• 2015

Developing countries including poor countries cannot accumulate enough domestic saving and government budget for their industrialization. They need to finance the capital for development from abroad sources; foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA). The developing countries can improve their business climate for more ODA. This paper examines whether ODA improve the business climate of developing countries. In this paper, the business climate are measured by the starting business scores and the scores of credit and protecting investor in Doing Business project of World Bank. According to the empirical result, ODA has significant effect on the starting business scores for low and lower middle income countries, but insignificant effect for upper middle countries. In the case of the scores of credit and protecting investor, ODA has significant effect only for lower middle income countries.

• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.69-76
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• 2019

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of Offcial Development Assistance (ODA) in recipient countries' economy. ODA is designed to mitigate poverty and stimulate economic growth in the developing countries. We classify total ODA into bilateral ODA and multilateral ODA depending on the number of donor countries. If the ODA flows from one donor country to one recipient country, it is classified as bilateral ODA. If the multiple countries simultaneously become donor countries through the international organizations such as United Nations and World Bank, it is classified as multilateral ODA. This paper compares the effect of bilateral ODA and multilateral ODA in determining recipient countries' economic development, and tries to provide policy implications to Korean ODA. Research design, data, and methodology - Our primary explanatory variables are bilateral and multilateral ODA. Private credit in recipient countries is adopted as additional explanatory variables to capture the level of financial development in recipient countries. We measure the ODA effectiveness using economic growth and quality of life of the recipient countries as the dependent variable. We collect 142 recipient countries' data from OECD statistics, during the period from 1970-2014. Panel least squares estimation with country fixed effect is employed as the empirical model. Results - Our results support that ODA variable has a negatively significant impact on recipient countries' economic growth, while it is positively correlated with human development index. Recipient countries' private credit is positively correlated with economic growth and human development index. The interaction variable of ODA and financial development turns out to be significant in general. We find that the positive effect of ODA depends on recipient countries' financial market development and this effect is stronger in multilateral aid than bilateral one. Conclusions - From the analysis, we have confirmed that the recipient countries financial development is the necessity condition to achieve positive effect of ODA. Based on these results, we suggest that Korean government should increase the share of multilateral funding and pay attention to recipient countries' financial market development to maximize the effectiveness of ODA.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.1021-1028
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• 2018

As entering the international construction market became more difficult than the past, ODA projects can be a breakthrough for domestic engineering companies to enter the international market. However, since many companies compete for limited projects, it is necessary to reinforce the competitiveness of bidding success. The competitiveness is the result of accumulating experience, reputation, and networking through partnering. Therefore, depending on which partnering strategy has been taken over a long period, the bidding success is decided. The objective of this study is to identify the effective partnering strategy for bidding success. For this, the World Bank bid results, focusing on consulting projects in Vietnam, are collected. Using the bid results, inter-firm network representing the partnering relationship is constructed and the Social Network Analysis is conducted. After then, by conducting the Logistic Regression Analysis, effective partnering strategies are suggested. The result shows that the diversification strategy is advantageous for transportation and city development projects and the concentration strategy is advantageous for water projects. The partnering strategy for the consulting project proposed in this study will be used as a reference for the domestic engineering companies to enter the Vietnam construction market in the future.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.581-589
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• 2020

Foreign factors play an important role in the socio-economic development of each country, in which foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign aid and exports of goods and services are always given top priority in undeveloped countries as well as developing countries. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the various factors such as FDI, foreign aid, exports and economic growth in Vietnam. The empirical method employed secondary time-series data set during the period 1997-2018 to determine the impact of FDI, foreign aid and exports on economic growth in Vietnam by using a linear approach. For this study, data is collected from the World Bank and relevant agencies in Vietnam. An empirical model is built with a correlation and regression analysis between economic growth (GDP, current) and three independent variables (FDI, aid, exports of goods and services). The results show that the relationship between FDI (net inflows), aid, exports and GDP (current) has a positive effect at a 1% significance level. Based on these findings, the article recommends that Vietnam continues to seek effective solutions to maintain high economic growth rates by attracting FDI inflows, official development assistance (ODA), and increasing exports of goods and services.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2020.12a
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• pp.381-386
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• 2020

Global construction and engineering consulting (E&C) firms are actively seeking entry into overseas markets based on loan projects from multilateral development banks to provide a basis for entry into overseas markets and sustainable growth. Bids on these projects are competitive between global top firms in terms of the technical level and price due to the limited number of projects; thus, developing a successful partnership to complement competence has become an essential element to win bids. In this regard, many studies have analyzed enterprises through characteristic analyses or the derivation of influential factors from the past social networks based on social network analysis (SNA). However, few studies have been conducted to reflect the process of changes to analyze collaborative relationships. Thus, this study aims to identify dynamic changes in past social networks and develop a model that can predict changes in the relationships between E&C firms based on similarities or differences between firms, presenting a methodology to target firms for appropriate collaboration. The analysis results demonstrate that the sensitivity of the developed prediction model was 70.26%, which could accurately predict 163 out of 232 actual cooperative cases.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.847-851
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• 2012

에티오피아의 수자원은 풍부하지만 그 활용의 수준은 매우 저조하다. 그 중에서 에티오피아의 농업용수 활용 수준은 굉장히 낮게 나타난다. 에티오피아의 농업은 강우량에 의존하는 형태를 지니지만 매우 불규칙한데, 이러한 특징은 에티오피아의 충분한 농업용수 활용을 위해 관개설치로 극복하려고 한다. 여러 선행연구에서는 에티오피아의 경제적 활성화는 근본적으로 농업용수의 충분한 확보가 전제되어야 한다고 주장한다. 왜냐하면 농업용수의 확보는 농업 경제의 활성화로 나타나며, 그 활성화로 농업 생산품이 많아지고 종류가 다양화되기 때문이다. 몇몇 실증적 연구에서는 충분한 농업용수를 갖추고 있는 지역이 농업 경제가 활성화됨에 따라 소득의 증가로 귀결되었음을 증명하였다. 이러한 사실에 입각하여 에티오피아 정부는 관개를 통한 농업용수 확보에 심혈을 기울이고 있지만, 재정적 문제와 인적자본의 결여로 어려움에 봉착하고 있다. 에티오피아의 수자원 개발은 주로 국제적 지원에 의존하고 있다. 특히 World Bank를 위시한 UNICEF, 핀란드 등은 에티오피아 농촌 지역의 수자원 개발에 많은 지원을 하였다. 반면, 대부분의 국제적 지원은 도시에 집중되어 있는데, 이러한 점은 에티오피아의 도 농간 수자원 개발이 확연한 차이로 나타나게 되었다. 우리나라 역시 에티오피아의 지원에 동참하고 있다. 이러한 국제적 지원은 에티오피아에 좋은 영향을 미치지만, 수혜자의 입장을 고려하여 지원을 펼친다면 더 좋은 성과로 나타날 것이다. 실제 독일이 볼리비아의 상황을 고려하여 농촌 지역의 빈곤감소를 위한 각종 프로그램 형성 및 지원은 국제공적개발원조가 어떠한 형태로 나타나야 할 것인지에 대해 큰 시사점을 제공해준다. 독일은 볼리비아의 수자원 지역에서 자연자원 보존과 자연을 훼손하지 않는 방식의 관개를 설치하였다. 더불어 국가 정책과 연관되도록 공무원의 역량강화 프로그램을 실시하였고, 관개 교육을 통해 기술자를 양성하였다. 그 결과 농촌 지역에서는 식량 상황이 개선되었고, 소득의 증가로 귀결되었다. 이와 같이 국제원조에서는 "수원국의 필요"가 전제되어야 하고, 그 나라의 상황에 맞도록 국가 정책과 연동되어야 한다. 우리나라는 과거에 현재 에티오피아가 직면한 수자원 문제에 봉착하였었고, 이를 관개 기술의 발전으로 극복하였다. 이러한 수자원 기술을 에티오피아의 현실에 맞게 지원한다면 독일의 사례에서 살펴볼 수 있듯이 국민들의 삶의 질 향상으로 귀결될 것이다.