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APT 규제자 고위포럼

  • Korean Associaton of Information & Telecommunication
    • 정보화사회
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    • s.150
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    • pp.66-69
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    • 2001
  • 지난 5월 15일부터 17일까지 3일간의 일정으로 APT 규제자 고위포럼이 APT 규제가 고위포럼이 APT와 세계은행(World Bank) 공동 주최하에 개최되어 31개 회원, 국내 통신위원회 및 정보통신정책부처의 고위급 인사 150여명이 참석한 가운데 개막되었다.이번 회의는 규제관련 이슈만을 주제로 아/태 지역에서는 최초로 개최되는 것으로 그 의미가 크다고 할 수 있겠다.우리나라는 APT측의 초청에 따라 참석한 김동선 정보통신부차관을 포함, 정부대표 5명, 민간업체 및 연구소 3명 등 8명의 대표단이 참가했다.회의 내용 요약 및 김동선 차관의 기조 연설을 정리, 싣는다.

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Monitoring Culicine Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) as a Vector of Flavivirus in Incheon Metropolitan City and Hwaseong-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea, during 2019

  • Bahk, Young Yil;Park, Seo Hye;Kim-Jeon, Myung-Deok;Oh, Sung-Suck;Jung, Haneul;Jun, Hojong;Kim, Kyung-Ae;Park, Jong Myong;Ahn, Seong Kyu;Lee, Jinyoung;Choi, Eun-Jeong;Moon, Bag-Sou;Gong, Young Woo;Kwon, Mun Ju;Kim, Tong-Soo
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.58 no.5
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    • pp.551-558
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    • 2020
  • The flaviviruses are small single-stranded RNA viruses that are typically transmitted by mosquitoes or tick vectors and are etiological agents of acute zoonotic infections. The viruses are found around the world and account for significant cases of human diseases. We investigated population of culicine mosquitoes in central region of Korean Peninsula, Incheon Metropolitan City and Hwaseong-si. Aedes vexans nipponii was the most frequently collected mosquitoes (56.5%), followed by Ochlerotatus dorsalis (23.6%), Anopheles spp. (10.9%), and Culex pipiens complex (5.9%). In rural regions of Hwaseong, Aedes vexans nipponii was the highest population (62.9%), followed by Ochlerotatus dorsalis (23.9%) and Anopheles spp. (12.0%). In another rural region of Incheon (habitat of migratory birds), Culex pipiens complex was the highest population (31.4%), followed by Ochlerotatus dorsalis (30.5%), and Aedes vexans vexans (27.5%). Culex pipiens complex was the predominant species in the urban region (84.7%). Culicine mosquitoes were identified at the species level, pooled up to 30 mosquitoes each, and tested for flaviviral RNA using the SYBR Green-based RT-PCR and confirmed by cDNA sequencing. Three of the assayed 2,683 pools (989 pools without Anopheles spp.) were positive for Culex flaviviruses, an insect-specific virus, from Culex pipiens pallens collected at the habitats for migratory birds in Incheon. The maximum likelihood estimation (the estimated number) for Culex pipiens pallens positive for Culex flavivirus was 25. Although viruses responsible for mosquito-borne diseases were not identified, we encourage intensified monitoring and long-term surveillance of both vector and viruses in the interest of global public health.

Inequality Analysis and Sub-group Decomposition of the World Maize Self-sufficiency Rates (세계 옥수수 자급률의 국가 간 불균등도 및 국가그룹별 비교분석)

  • Kwon, Dae-Heum
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2016
  • This paper aims to analyze inequality of maize self-sufficiency rate among countries in 1970-2011. Utilizing sub-group consistency of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality index, the estimated maize self-sufficiency rate inequality is further decomposed into two steps' separate country groups. First, lower and upper income groups and then lower, lower middle, upper middle and high income groups are used based on the national classification of the world bank. It is inferred that 1980s' policy intervention and 1990s' Uruguay Round negotiations have different effect on the inequality among four different country groups.

Current Situation of Cryptocurrency in Vietnam

  • DANG, Thu Thuy
    • Asian Journal of Business Environment
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2019
  • Purpose - The purpose of the research is to assess the current state of cryptocurrency in Vietnam and to provide several solutions and recommendations to the Government, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and other relevant agencies for monitoring, managing, and controlling cryptocurrency effectively and efficiently. Research design, data and methodology - The study is based on the assessment and analysis of cryptocurrency in the world and the real situation of cryptocurrency in Vietnam in order to provide solutions to the controllable development of operation of this currency. Results - The study indicates the current operations of cryptocurrency in Vietnam and provides several suggestions to effectively control this currency. Conclusion - According to the study on current cryptocurrency and the situation of cryptocurrency in Vietnam, the author has proposed a number of solutions to provide suggestions to manage and develop the operations of cryptocurrency in a most practical manner. The governments of many countries in the world, including the Government of Vietnam, need more time as well as appropriate technology improvements to take advantage of these new digital currencies; therefore, they still need to ensure safety in compliance with the control and regulatory capabilities of the central government and central banks.

UNEP's Response to the Changing Environment of International Environmental Governance (국제환경가버넌스 여건 변화와 UNEP의 역할)

  • Chung, Suh-Yong
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.31-54
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    • 2004
  • This paper aims at analyzing the issues on how to improve UNEP's roles in international environmental governance context. Although UNEP has been presumed to play a leading role in addressing global environment problems, several problems (such as collective action problem, fragmentation, lack of authority and insufficient legitimacy) in its governance have led to losing its leadership to other entities such as the World Bank, OECD and CSD. While a position of changing UNEP's status to an independent international organization has not been developed enough, several efforts, which might not be sufficient to respond to the changing environment of international environmental governance, have been made to strengthen UNEP's roles in the short run. These include universal membership, strengthening the financing of UNEP, and issues concerning MEAs. Whether current efforts for enhancing UNEP's roles in international environmental governance will be successful or not, would rely on to what extent interested parties hold political wills for its reforms and how to draw a compromise on critical issues among those parties.

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The Impact of Social disaster by COVID-19 on Consumer Price Index: Focused on Culture, Sports and Tourism (COVID-19가 유발한 사회재난이 소비자물가지수에 미치는 영향: 문화체육관광분야를 중점으로)

  • Lee, Da-Hye;Chang, In-Hong
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.130-138
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    • 2021
  • The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on human life. The World Bank group (WBG) has stated that 2020 is the worst year since World War II for economic growth. An epidemic of an infectious disease such as COVID-19 is classified as a "social disaster" by law. The social disaster caused by COVID-19 puts certain industries, occupations and vulnerable groups at risk of exclusion and isolation. This paper intends to examine the fluctuations in the consumer price index in the cultural, sports and tourism sector before and after the onset of COVID-19. In addition, it predicts the consumer price index by sector until December 2021 and reveals its implications.

The Economics of Conflict and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: RCEP, CPTPP and the US-China Trade War

  • Park, Cyn-Young;Petri, Peter A.;Plummer, Michael G.
    • East Asian Economic Review
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.233-272
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    • 2021
  • The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, signed in November 2020, comes shortly after the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) entered into force and the US-China Trade War escalated. We use a computable general equilibrium model to assess the long-term effects of these three developments on income, trade, economic structure, factor returns and employment across the world, and especially in Asia-Pacific countries. The results suggest that RCEP could generate income gains that will be almost twice as large as those of the CPTPP, and that the two agreements together will largely offset the substantial negative effects of the US-China Trade War for the world as a whole. All three policy developments, but especially RCEP, will deepen East Asian production networks and will raise productivity and increase wages and employment in much of East Asia. At the sectoral level, regional trade in non-durable and durable manufactures will experience the most growth.

Four New Species of Parorthocladius (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) Found in Korea

  • Ree, Han-il;Kang, Hyo Jeong
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.70-77
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    • 2021
  • The genus Parorthocladius is a small group among the subfamily Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae). A total of ten species of Parorthocladius have been recorded in the world, of which two species were found from Japan, three species from China, and three species from the Russian Far East. Only one species, P. nudipennis is widely distributed in Europe and the Russian Far East. This genus can be distinguished from other genera by the absence of acrostichals on the thorax, wing vein R4+5 ending proximal to the tip of vein M3+4, anal point parallel side, rounded apically. We report four new species of Parorthocladius collected in Korea and described them with illustrations. As a result, fourteen species of Parorthocladius have been recorded in the world.

A Study on TBT Estimation between Korea and China based on Price Wedge Approach (가격차 모형에 기초한 한국과 중국간 기술무역장벽(TBT) 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Ha, Tae Jeong;Moon, Sunung
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.307-330
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to estimation of Technical Barriers of Trade(TBT) between Korea and China. TBT is one of the key issues in which both governments are interested since the Korea-China FTA negotiations had launched in 2012. In this paper, we aggregate nine country HS codes from World Bank and AIO codes from JETRO. Our estimation model based on modified price wedge approach differentiate previous researches in the sense that it covers all manufacture industries and uses nine country data set. Estimation results confirm the importance of TBT showing that TBT high ranking items significantly overlap high ranking export items. We also find that the size of Chinese TBT are much larger than that of Korean TBT, implying that Korean government needs smart and well prepared strategy for key items in TBT/FTA negotiation with Chinese government.

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The Relationship between FDI and Economic Growth: Kazakhstan Case (해외직접 투자와 경제성장의 상호관계에 관한 연구: 카자흐스탄 사례연구)

  • Chang, Byeong-Yun;Kassymbekova, Assel
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we study the relationship between FDI(Foreign Direct Investment) and economic growth in Kazakhstan. For this research, we, first, investigate the factors that affect FDI infow to Kazakhstan since its independence and determine the degree of their influence. Second, we study the impact of FDI per capita on GDP per capita. To achieve these goals, an empirical study is conducted with 18 years data from 1992 to 2009 from World Bank Database. Data are analyzed using multiple linear regression, time series analysis and Granger causality test. The results show that the determinant of FDI is GDP and economic freedom index in Kazakhstan. Economic growth is affected by FDI, too. Specially, FDI is positively related to GDP and economic freedom index. FDI per capita's impact on GDP per capita is 30.4 dollars increase in GDP per capita by one dollar increase in FDI per capital inflow. The results provides useful information for policy makers to improve obtaining large amount of investments and facilitate economic growth.