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The structure of the economic policy-making institutions in Korea and the strategic role of the Economic Planning Board (EPB)
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- Issue Date
- 1987
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Policy Studies, Vol.2, pp. 1-25
- Description
- This article is adapted from the author's thesis, which analyzed the institutional characteristics and atrategic actions of the economic policy-making institutions in Korea.
- Abstract
- This article seeks to analyze the institutional structure within which the Korean state has played
the strategic developmental role, with a focus on its unique configuration of the economic policymaking
institutions and the pattern of interactions it produced. After briefly describipg the institutional characteristics of the economic policy-making in Korea with special reference to its strategic
responses to the changing political-economic conditions, it analyzes why the Economic Planning Board
(EPB) has occupied a preeminent place in the economic policy-making apparatus in Korea. Identifying
the institutional autonomy and the consequent institutional flexibility as the key characteristics
of the EPB, this article explains logically how the EPB has been strategically placed in selecting
and changing economic policies at particular times and how the EPB has come to be viewed as the
leading institution reflecting the politico-economic visions of the political leaders. While emphasizing
the distinctive identity and competence of the EPB, this article warns against the recent tendency
of the EPB to ever expand its jurisdiction and of the President to lodge a wide variety of operaing
responsibilities in the EPB. It finally suggests the ways in which the strategic role and
distinctive competence of the EPB can be best preserved.
- ISSN
- 1225-5017
- Language
- English
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