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Sufficiency economy, the King’s philosophy: an application of Buddhist economics to develop Thai local pharmaceutical industries for sustainable well-being
Chaisumritchoke, Suntharee T. - In: Society and Economy 29 (2007) August, pp. 235-252
This article is developed from a policy research carried out to study the impacts on local pharmaceutical industries in case that the Thai government decides to accept the free trade agreement (FTA) on pharmaceutical products proposed by the US government. Despite that the US-Thai FTA is unfair,...
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QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENTS AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: SKI TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN INVERMERE, BRITISH COLUMBIA
ASPINALL, ALISON; CUKIER, JUDIE; DOBERSTEIN, BRENT - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 13 (2011) 02, pp. 179-201
The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of using quality of life assessments (QLA) to evaluate social sustainability and impacts of a hypothetical tourism development modelled after the currently-proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort. Results of this study indicated that there was a...
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Eradicating Child Malnutrition: Thailand's health, nutrition and poverty alleviation policy in the 1980s
Kiranandana, Thienchay; Tontisirin, Kraisid - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005734305
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Special Border Economic Zone (SBEZ) in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT)
Lord, Montague J.; Tangtrongjita, Pawat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study provides a review and analysis of the findings from the scoping study on the proposed Malaysian–Thailand … best viewed as incremental levels of collaborative of Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Level 1 would cover the …
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Establishing Ergonomics in Industrially Developing Countries
Stewart, K; Silverstein, B; Kiefer, M - 2008
countries of Viet Nam, Thailand, and Nicaragua have demonstrated that a one-time course is just the first step in a series of …
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Assessing markets for business development services : what have we learned so far
Miehlbradt, Alexandra Overy - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Based on data from 13 assessments of business development services (BDS) markets. Explores the stage of development of various BDS markets and examines how organizations can assess the potential for their development. Discusses common preconceptions about BDS markets and identifies similarities...
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Basic Needs and Wealth as Independent Determinants of Happiness: An Illustration from Thailand
Guillen-Royo, Monica; Velazco, Jackeline; Camfield, Laura - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 2, pp. 517-536
Thailand has been a global economic success story, transforming from one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia in … communities in the South and North-east of Thailand with contrasting levels of access to markets and services. It challenges the …
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Competitiveness policies for medical tourism clusters: government initiatives in Thailand
Alberti, Fernando G.; Giusti, Jessica D.; Papa, Fabio; … - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 7 (2014) 3, pp. 281-309
paper builds on the longitudinal case study of the Thailand medical tourism cluster, analysing its formation and development … in time and the competitiveness policies set up by the government. In Thailand, idiosyncratic factor conditions allowed …
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Thailand’s Flood Management Policy: Issues, Developments and Implications for the Thai Tourism Industry
Thirawat, Nipawan; Ponjan, Pathomdanai - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
demographics of floodplains and flood behaviour as well as the climate change have increased the exposure to flood risk in Thailand …
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Sustainable livelihood approaches and soil erosion risks: Who is to judge?
Forsyth, Tim - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) February, pp. 88-102
organizing ideas and concerns about development. The paper presents research on soil erosion in Thailand as a case study of how …
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