مجلة الدراسات التجارية والاقتصادية المعاصرة
Volume 4, Numéro 2, Pages 640-651
2021-07-20

Green Growth As An Alternative Development Strategy: Case Of South Korea

Authors : Boukhari Ouissem . Gramtia Zahia .

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the controversial green growth paradigm as a way to achieve growth while preserving the environment, by studying the case of South Korea and its national Green Growth strategy. For this purpose we used the descriptive and analytical method to explore the concept of green growth and analyze the Green Growth experience of South Korea, our findings show that South Korea’s strategy contributed to develop green technologies and the growth of exports but had a poor performance regarding green energy goals, reflected by an increase in CO2 emissions.

Keywords

Green-growth ; sustainable-development ; South-Korea ; Green-economy