"The trade-investment-service-intellectual property (IP) nexus remains at the heart of economic development and the main features of which are global value chains (GVCs) and digitalisation. The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) has become a critical issue not only for advanced...

Introduction : Turning Land into Capital / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah and Michael Dwyer -- Land and Capital across Borders : A Regional Geopolitics / Natalia Scurrah and Philip Hirsch -- Legacies in Land Governance : Colonialism, War and Socialism / Kevin Woods, Michael Dwyer...

1. Crossing Borders in South and Southeast Asia: Assessing Existing Problems through a New Lens -- 2. Addressing Urban Poverty through Empowerment and Inclusion in India -- 3. Development Efforts toward Ecological Sustainability in Calcutta: Transformation of a Metropolis -- 4. De facto State...

"Classical theorists once predicted that monarchy must eventually give way to capitalism. But is monarchy really dead--an archaic institution from the feudal past? In Royal Capitalism: The Monarchy, Wealth, and Social Classes in Thailand, Puangchon Unchanam examines one particularly successful...

"The rationale for this volume on China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Changing Landscapes stems from the rise in recent years of China, ASEAN's giant neighbor, and in its wake the significant economic, political, and socio-cultural developments in the ASEAN region. In the last two...

Shocks, rainfall variability, geographic capital, assets, welfare dynamics, poverty traps, migration, remittances, Thailand, Vietnam. - Schocks, Niederschlagsvariabilität, geographisches Kapital, Wohlfahrtsdynamik, Vermögenswert, Armutsfallen, Rücküberweisungen

This book brings together public financial management and public sector reform experiences from eight countries in East Asia. It examines how reforms have been implemented in those countries and explores key lessons that can help reformers to further advance their endeavors

Focuses on the employment practices and working conditions within the commercial fishing sector in four provinces of Thailand. It provides a number of valuable insights into the situation for fishers within the industry, from which government, employer and worker representatives can draw upon in...

Getting growth going is hard and rare -- History as prologue -- Dictators build and sustain pro-growth coalitions -- Dictators incite domestic capitalists to invest -- Selective interventions in rice agriculture -- The state and industrial development -- Technological upgrading -- Democrats,...

Sustainability practices in Thailand / Cheree Topple, Jerome D. Donovan, Eryadi K. Masli and Vedran Vranic -- FDI and development in Thailand / Cheree Topple, Hermann Lion, Vedran Vranic, Eryadi K. Masli, Jerome D. Donovan -- The corporate sustainability assessment / Hermann Lion, Cheree Topple...

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an integral system in its own...

Geographical indication, intellectual property, rural livelihoods, rural poverty, household welfare, Jasmine rice, Thailand. - Geografische Herkunftsangaben, geistiges Eigentum, ländliche Lebensgrundlagen, ländliche Armut, Wohlfahrt von Haushalten, Jasminreis, Thailand

This study constructs a panel data 2003 and 2007, a social accounting matrix (SAM) and a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) in 2007 to investigate the effect of tourism on household income, poverty reduction and income distribution at the village level in Thailand. It conducted a census...

Thailand's education system stands at a crossroads. Significant investment has widened access to education and the country performs relatively well in international assessments compared with its peers. But the benefits have not been universally distributed and Thailand has not received the...

This paper analyzes the responsiveness of Thai outbound tourism to East Asian destinations, namely China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, to changes in effective relative price of tourism, total real total tourism expenditure, and one-off events. The nonlinear and linear Almost Ideal Demand...

"This sourcebook provides a snapshot of Thailand and sustainable development as of 2015." Part 1 offers a broad overview of sustainable development and explains how it has evolved over the decades. Part 2 defines the key issues the kingdom is grappling with in its quest for sustainable...

This new report discusses the experience with environmental standards and how it can be useful for new financiers. It contains ten papers written by experts from civil society, financial institutions and academia. The authors present case studies of overseas projects funded by Chinese, Indian...