A Study on Utilization Plan for Metropolitan Support Account of Local Extinction Reaction Fund

Abstract

This thesis is a utilization plan for metropolitan support account of local extinction reaction fund. In regard to pursuing a policy that utilizes local extinction reaction fund, local governments can pursue local projects that consider regional characteristics according to their independent decisionmaking process. However, in case of metropolitan governments, their projects must be centered on the policies that link depopulation regions under their jurisdiction. Therefore, there exists a possibility of regional inequality. With such backgrounds, this study aims to provide quantitative data by using (Department of Public Administration and Security) 'Depopulation Index' for selecting the projects to be promoted by metropolitan governments. As a result of analysis, three factors were categorized, which are regional sustainability, regional policy receptivity and regional vitality. In case of regions that were categorized as high-rank regions for each factor, their regional conditions were relatively favorable among 89 depopulation regions, but they still had concerns about local extinction when taking the national point of view. Therefore, this study simply suggested political alternatives by quantitatively deducing the regions with higher political priority in regard to depopulation related policies pursued by metropolitan governments, and support for the regions that are categorized as being high-rank regions should still be continued.