지방자치단체의 농림투융자 국고보조금 운영 효율화 방안

Abstract

정부는 농업농촌발전을 촉진하기 위하여 다양한 농림투융자사업을 추진하고 있다. 농림사업 지원자금의 효율성을 제고하는 것이 중요한 농정의 과제이다. 비농업계로부터 농업투융자사업이 비효율적으로 이용되고 있다는 비판이 제기되고 있다. 농림투융자사업의 효율성을 제고하기 위해서는 지방자치단체의 역할이 중요하다. 많은 농림투융자사업의 추진 주체가 지방자치단체로 되어 있기 때문이다. 지역의 특성을 잘 반영한 농림투융자사업으로 개편되고, 지자체가 이를 잘 집행함으로써 농업투융자사업의 효율성이 제고될 것이다. 지원자금의 효율성 제고는 바로 농업농촌의 발전으로 이어진다. 따라서 지자체 국고보조사업의 효율성을 제고하는 방안들을 모색하여야 한다. 이를 위해서는 중앙정부의 농정추진체계 개편과 함께 지역에서 보다 효율적 운영을 위한 역량강화가 바탕이 되어야 한다. 이 연구보고서에서는 지방자치단체에 지원하고 있는 농림투융자 국고보조금 지원사업의 지원방식을 효율화하고, 지방자치단체가 국고보조사업을 효율적으로 운용하는 방안을 기술하고 있다. 구체적으로는 첫째, 중앙정부가 지자체에 농림사업 국고보조금을 지원하는 운용체계를 개선함으로써 지자체의 자율성과 창의성을 높이고자 하는 방안을 모색하였다. 둘째, 지원받은 지자체가 신청단계부터 집행 및 성과관리 단계에까지 관리체계를 강화하는 방안을 제시하고자 하였다. 지역단위에서 사업추진과정에 공동으로 참여하는 거버넌스의 구축 등 지방농정의 역량을 강화하는 방안도 고려하였다

Korean government has tried to change the agricultural policy system and increase the amount of agricultural fiscal fund in order to cope with the market opening of agricultural products. But there were some critical viewpoints for the inefficiency of the increased agricultural fiscal fund from non-agricultural sectors. Agricultural sector needs to try to reform the inefficiency of the agricultural fiscal fund. The aim of this study was to search for more effective and efficient ways in which to operate the agricultural fiscal fund granted to local governments. In order to find out the problems and the reform measures, this study checked and analyzed the current situation of agricultural fiscal fund, especially the amount and the procedure of agricultural fiscal fund granted to local governments and the role of local governments. There were some problems to be reformed in the operation of the agricultural fiscal fund granted to local governments. First, there were too many specific sub-projects of each subsidy project. These specification of subsidy projects made the role of local governments reduced in carrying out the subsidy projects. Second, there was an inequality problem of the distribution of agricultural fiscal fund to local governments. In fact, there are some gaps of fiscal power among local governments. The local governments which have relatively low fiscal power can't drive their subsidy projects like other affordable local governments. This phenomenon might result in the inequality of rural development among local governments. Third, almost all of agricultural subsidy projects were planned by central government and local governments only carried out these projects. So, local governments haven't needed to plan their own subsidy projects and their planning skill have been decreased. In order to improve these problems, this study presented the efficient operational system of agricultural fiscal fund in local government position. The newly developed system included the merger of similar subsidy projects, the abolition of ineffective or completed subsidy projects, the diversification plan of supporting the subsidy projects, and the way of improving the planning ability of the local governments for performing agricultural subsidy projects. This study presented two supplementary devices for being the efficient system of agricultural fiscal fund granted to local governments - performance budgeting management and the differential grant system. First, this study introduced the concept and performance indicators of performance budgeting management, and the example of performance evaluation in the case of the subsidy project for supporting the wide-area APC. Second, this study analyzed the fiscal power gap among local governments and developed the program of applying the differential grant system. The results of this study can be the useful references to reform the more efficient and effective operational system of agricultural fiscal fund granted to local governments and improve the abilities of planning and management of the agricultural subsidy projects in local governments' positions.