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surmount. Slowing momentum in countries like Malaysia and Thailand has led analysts and policy makers to consider what it would … education system is fundamental to equip workers with marketable skills. Malaysia and Thailand have successfully expanded access …
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Thailand is one of the most successful developing countries. After decades of rapid growth, the economy rebounded …. What growth can Thailand realistically expect? And what can the government do to sustain such growth into the future? Using … argues that Thailand's challenge is to maintain growth levels of 4 to 5 percent over the medium term. To achieve this goal …
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This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is...
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"opportunity incidence analysis" to six pilot countries: Liberia, Cote d?Ivoire, Zambia, Tajikistan, Thailand, and Paraguay. Three …
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In 2009, buffeted by the great recession, Thai gross domestic product fell by 2.3 percent. Using monthly data from the socio-economic surveys of 2007-2010, this paper finds, after controlling for household variables, that real consumption per capita rose in 2009 relative to 2008 for most groups,...
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Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here …, mostly in the form of farm income in Bangladesh and Thailand and non-farm income in the case of Peru. This growth in labor … case of Bangladesh and through public and private transfers in Peru and Thailand. Transfers are more important in …
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This paper exploits the staggered rollout of Thailand?s universal health coverage scheme to estimate its impacts on …
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This paper explores the possibility that universal health coverage may inadvertently result in distorted labor market choices, with workers preferring informal employment over formal employment, leading to negative effects on investment and growth, as well as reduced protection against...
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in softening the effects of these shocks, this paper examines recent nationally-representative data from Thailand, an …
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Rapid economic growth in China has boosted its demand for commodities. At the same time, many commodity sectors have experienced declining demand from high-income northern economies. This paper examines two hypotheses of the consequences of this shift in final markets for the organization of...
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