Rural Poverty in Thailand: Policy Issues and Responses

Medhi Krongkaew, Pranee Tinakorn and Suphat Suphachalasai

Asian Development Review (ADR), 1992, vol. 10, issue 01, 199-225

Abstract: 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…

Date: 1992
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