지방자치단체의 지역개발과 국가규제

Abstract

The revival of a local autonomous system and the promotion of policies on local autonomy require decentralization of paradigm in development policies. Notwithstanding policies on local autonomy that have been implemented so far, sharing roles among the central government and local governments is still insufficient and there exit limits on fostering development capability of local governments due to lack of an efficient policy implementation system. With respect to strengthening autonomous foundation of local governments, local development projects may support efficient execution of local autonomy by advancing economic status of local residents, upgrading independent capability and improving conditions on financial independence of local governments. However, Korea’s legislative systems related to local development are managed by several departments, so they are not efficient. Local development focuses only on achieving objectives of the central government and contents of local development is not innovative because local development projects are designed in a quantitative manner. In order to resolve such problems, the legislative systems related to local development should be consolidated, local governments and their residents should take the lead in establishing plans for local development projects from the start, and improvement of systems, such as expanding autonomous adjustment functions among local governments, is required. Most importantly, it is necessary to improve dependence on finance in relation to local development projects by reinforcing financial foundation of local governments. The facilitation and development of local economy become the foundation for efficiently embodying the local autonomous system. In this regard, development paradigm focusing on the central government, which has been hidden under the existing legislative systems, should be changed into a decentralized development system. For this end, efforts to establish a systemic frame are required in order to encourage the active participation and cooperation for local development among the central government, local governments and the private sector.