Rural Poverty in Thailand: Policy Issues and Responses
One of the most nagging problems in the economic management of a country is achieving high rate of economic growth while reducing absolute and relative poverty. Nowhere in Southeast Asia, or even in Asia, has the problem of growth-equity trade-off become more unique and interesting than in Thailand....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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World Scientific Publishing
1992-01-01
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| Series: | Asian Development Review |
| Online Access: | https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0116110592000071 |
| Summary: | One of the most nagging problems in the economic management of a country is achieving high rate of economic growth while reducing absolute and relative poverty. Nowhere in Southeast Asia, or even in Asia, has the problem of growth-equity trade-off become more unique and interesting than in Thailand. Toward the end of the 1980s, Thailand was one of the few countries in Asia which had achieved a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of over 10 per cent a year. And yet, it is also well known that income distribution in Thailand has worsened, and the absolute level of poverty has not declined in the last ten years… |
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| ISSN: | 0116-1105 1996-7241 |