지방분권화와 수도권-비수도권간 및 영호남간 지역격차

초록

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the disparity between the Capital and Non-capital regions, compared to the disparity between the Youngnam and Honam regions in the 1990s. Furthermore this study compares the correlations between the decentralization and the regional disparities for the Capital and Non-capital regions to the Youngnam and Honam regions. The major finding is that the extent of the regional disparities has been decreasing not only between the Capital and Non-capital regions but also between Youngnam and Honam regions in the 1990s. However the disparities tend to increase since the IMF crisis. Another finding is that personnel decentralization is more positively correlated with alleviating disparities between the Capital and Non-capital regions rather than functional and fiscal decentralization. For Youngnam and Honam regions, however personnel and fiscal decentralization is more positively correlated with reducing regional disparities than functional decentralization. Furthermore, the disparity between the Youngnam and Honam regions is less correlated with the decentralization than the disparity between the Capital and Non-capital regions. The above findings imply that the efforts to decrease overall regional disparities would not result in decreasing disparities between the Captial and Non-capital regions.

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