Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0510201857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0510201857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Access to Capital in Rural Thailand
Author: Xavier GinePublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Credit
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending institutions such as government or commercial banks, and more recently, micro-lending institutions. Second, potential borrowers presumably face sizable transaction costs obtaining external credit. The author develops and estimates a model based on limited enforcement and transaction costs that provides a unified view of those facts. The results show that the limited ability of banks to enforce contracts, more than transaction costs, is crucial in understanding the observed diversity of lenders. This paper--a product of the Finance Team, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand access to credit"--World Bank web site.
Land Ownership Security, Farm Productivity, and Land Policies in Rural Thailand
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Land and Loyalty
Author: Tomas LarssonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464552
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in low-income countries can result in economic benefits. But the country provides a puzzle: Thailand faced major security threats from colonial powers in the nineteenth century and from communism in the twentieth century, yet only in the latter case did the government respond with pro-development tactics. In Land and Loyalty, Tomas Larsson argues that institutional underdevelopment may prove, under certain circumstances, a strategic advantage rather than a weakness and that external threats play an important role in shaping the development of property regimes. Security concerns, he find, often guide economic policy. The domestic legacies, legal and socioeconomic, resulting from state responses to the outside world shape and limit the strategies available to politicians. While Larsson’s extensive archival research findings are drawn from Thai sources, he situates the experiences of Thailand in comparative perspective by contrasting them with the trajectory of property rights in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines.
Infiltrating Society
Author: Puangthong PawakapanPublisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN: 9814881724
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Thai politics is driven by actors and actions of paradox such as anti-election movements for accountability or independent, partisan organizations. This lucidly written book uncovers the 'military-led civil affairs' that earn the armed forces the omnipotent role in Thai society. It enriches our understanding of the Thai military in both empirical and theoretical ways. Empirically, the book illuminates how the soldiers have been intensively involved in supposedly civic activities ranging from forest land management to poverty reduction. Such long-lasting and extensive involvement means the military could mobilize the organized mass of over 500,000 strong when necessary. Theoretically, readers will learn how an ideological discourse (“threats to national security”) has been continuously redefined to serve the military’s evolving political and rent-seeking missions from the Cold War era to the twenty-first century. It also traces the persistence and mutation of this highly adaptable organization, the one that knows when to roar and when to camouflage. Still waters run deep; Thai military operations run deeper and wider."--Veerayooth Kanchoochat, Associate Professor of Political Economy, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo “A truly monumental work about Thailand’s military from the 1960s until today, this solid study focuses upon the armed forces’ internal security role across Thai society, how the military has succeeded in legitimizing itself and boosting its power as a counterinsurgency force, guardian of monarchy and engine of development. The book also valuably looks at the military’s establishment of mass organizations beginning during the Cold War and mobilization of royalists since 2006. The book thus illustrates how the military has been able to enhance and sustain its overwhelming influence and is thus a valuable study for anyone wanting to understand key power-brokers in Thailand.”— Dr Paul Chambers, Center of ASEAN Community Studies, Naresuan University, Thailand.
Land Reform and Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Jean-Philippe PlatteauPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251030004
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
land rental markets in the process of rual structural transformation: productivity and equity impacts china
Author: Klaus DeiningerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Handling Land
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Security and Development in Thailand's Rural Areas
Author: Charles F. KeyesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Internal security
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Land Use
Author: Luis LouresPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 1789857031
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The intensive increase in land use change is considered both a source of richness and a serious problem to landscape sustainability. In this scenario, although land use change plays a very important role for societal development, the impact of land use changes on economic, social, and ecological functions requires special attention. The new environmental paradigms associated with globalization and progressive climate change will certainly intensify the entropy and the instability in most of the existing land-uses. In this regard, this book aims to highlight a body of knowledge related to the discussion of the opportunities and challenges associated with the development of new sustainable landscapes, considering current and future challenges related to land-use changes and planning.
