This volume explores South Korea's successful transition from an underdeveloped, authoritarian country to a modern industrialized democracy. South Korea's experience of foreign aid gives a unique perspective on how to use foreign aid for economic development as well as how to build a strong partnership between developed and developing countries.

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Eun Mee Kim is Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha University, Korea. Her previous posts include Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. She is the author of Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (1997).
 
Pil Ho Kim is Scholar in Residence at Lewis and Clark College, USA. Previously he taught at Ewha University in Korea and the Ohio State University.

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Introduction: The South Korean Development Experience; Eun Mee Kim and Pil Ho Kim 1. From Development to Development Cooperation: Foreign Aid, Country Ownership, and the Developmental State in South Korea; Eun Mee Kim and Pil Ho Kim 2. The Effect of Aid Allocation: an Econometric Analysis of Grant Aid and Concessional Loans to South Korea, 1953-1978; Jaewoo Lee 3. Coordination and Capacity Building in US Aid to South Korea, 1945-1975; Jinkyung Kim and Pil Ho Kim 4. Aid Effectiveness and Fragmentation: Changes in Global Aid Architecture and South Korea as an Emerging Donor; Eun Mee Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, and Jae Eun Lee 5. The Capability Enhancing Developmental State: Concepts and National Trajectories; Peter B. Evans 6. South Korea's Development Experience as an Aid Recipient: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa; Monday Lewis Igbafen 7. The Politicization of Humanitarian Assistance: Aid and Security on the Korean Peninsula; Brendan Howe and Dong Jin Kim Conclusion: Beyond Aid; Eun Mee Kim ?