This study investigates the effects of rural–urban migration on economic development in Thailand. It draws upon a panel database of 2,000 rural households collected from 2008 to 2010 in three provinces from Northeast Thailand and a survey of 650 migrants in the Greater Bangkok area conducted...

The lack of finance is a major reason for poverty. Also a typical feature of the poor, especially the rural poor, is that their income highly fluctuates often as a result of shocks. This volatile nature of the poor households' cash-flow underlines the need for good financial management which the...

This study aims to explore cross-country differences in credit market participation, level of household debt holding and over-indebtedness between rural households in Thailand and Vietnam. Using a unique rural household survey data from “Vulnerability in Southeast Asia” project, it first...