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ㅇ 일시 및 행사명

  가. 일 시

    - 2015. 9. 12(토), 오전 10:00 ~ 오후 12:00

  나. 행사명

    - 제목 : "Contested Aid: Business Development Assistance in Central Asia"

    - 발표자 :  Dr. Gül Berna Özcan(Royal Holloway University of London, UK)

ㅇ 장   소

    - 연세대학교 삼성학술정보관 7층 국가관리연구원 705호

초청장과 함께 국가관리연구원에 대한 간단한 약도 첨부합니다.

연세대학교 정문이 공사관계로 차량통행이 불가능합니다.

남문을 통해 오시면 국가관리연구원이 있는 연세-삼성정보관 주변에 주차 가능하십니다.

"CONTESTED AID: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN CENTRAL ASIA" 

Keywords: Foreign aid, Donor Contestations, Business Development Assistance in the Former Soviet

Union

Author: Dr. Gül Berna Özcan,

Abstract: With empirical evidence gathered from four different donor programmes launched in the

Kyrgyz Republic between 2004 and 2010, this study offers a critical analysis of western aid interventions and how they are

contested by local actors. The paper has three contributions. First, it is an empirically informed study of diverging outcomes of business development assistance in the Former Soviet Union. Second, it proposes a new contextualised model of power morality-transformation-agency for future aid policy formulation and academic discussions. Finally, it shows how enterprise development initiatives of USAID, TACIS/EU, Turkey and Switzerland worked in practice and through the model.

Bio:

Dr. Gül Berna Özcan’s is Reader in International Business at Royal Holloway University of London.  Her research interests include business-politics relations, internationalisation of firms from emerging markets and post-Soviet states, and the political economy of entrepreneurial classes. She is the recipient of numerous awards including, the Middle East Research Competition of the Ford Foundation, the Robert McNamara Fellowship of the World Bank, a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2008-2009).

Dr. Özcan published in journals such as Business and Politics, Comparative Economic Studies, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Environment and Planning C, Progress in Planning, New Perspectives on Turkey, Insight Turkey, and World Development.  Her most recent book, Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia (Palgrave, 2010), explores the characteristics and impact of the emerging entrepreneurial middle class in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

Dr. Özcan holds a PhD in Economic Geography (London School of Economics), an MSc and a BSc in City and Regional Planning (Middle East Technical University and Dokuz Eylul respectively).