지역균형발전과 예산

Abstract

The balanced development of the country and decentralization have been key words of President Noh's government. Centralized development and concentration of population and public offices in Seoul and vicinities have brought inequal development and underdevelopment of other regions in Korea.To solve such problems the government passed a law of three decentralization special laws and has established The Presidential Committee on Balanced National Development. The committee has initiated a lot of policy initiatives such as moving national capital to local regions, constructing the Innovation City a province or metro city by relocating government offices to IC. Among many successful policies by PCBND, most distinguishing one is setting up a Special Account on Balanced Development(SABD). The budget gave discretional rights of local government on how to use the money. However, SABD asks equal amount of matching funds for national government expenditure regardless of financial independence rate. Secondly, there is no explicit rules of distribution of SABD money of provincial or metro governments when they redistribute it to county or district governments. Thirdly, strategic industries of local governments and input of SABD money do not match. Even if there are many problems of SABD budget to solve, still it is much better and helpful of local government than ever before.