The Costs and Benefits of Korean Unification
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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8372363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melody Noland (0000-0003-0599-0413, corresponding author), Marcus Noland, Sherman Robinson (0000-0002-5478-9372), Li-gang Liu, Ligang Liu (0000-0003-4352-1431) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 801-814 |
| Publication date | 1998-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Survey (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-4687 • E-ISSN: 1533-838X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2645584 |
| OpenAlex | W2030574718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
In South Korea, there is growing skepticism about the desirability of unification, driven in large part by the perception that it would be prohibitively costly. A veritable cottage industry now exists devoted to the estimation of the prospective costs of Korean unification; these are typically found to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars (some of the more notable studies are summarized in Table 1). Existing studies have adopted one of two conceptually inadequate approaches. The first is to take data from the German experience and apply it to the Korean case.1 The concept of cost here is government expenditure, and benefits are viewed through a similarly narrow prism of offsetting possibilities for budgetary expenditure reduction (primarily through military demobilization). A second approach attempts to measure the resources necessary to raise North Korea to some share of South Korean income.2 Cost in these studies is measured in terms of resource
Business · Economics · Political science · Risk analysis (engineering · Unification · Computer Science · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0.26 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2022 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |