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In the 1980s the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more...
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consequences for agriculture in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Despite geographic proximity, similar climate, and other …
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in softening the effects of these shocks, this paper examines recent nationally-representative data from Thailand, an … household consumption, income, borrowing, and debt repaid. To address simultaneity of changes in government spending and … household outcomes, the analysis estimates a dynamic panel regression, instrumenting the stimulus effect with second …
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socio-economic surveys of 2007-2010, this paper finds, after controlling for household variables, that real consumption per … evidence, including household survey data …
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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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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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This paper exploits the staggered rollout of Thailand s universal health coverage scheme to estimate its impacts on …
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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 … incomes was driven by higher returns to individual and household endowments, pointing to increases in productivity and real …
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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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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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