Academics ask if govt creating 'poverty trap'
By Kesinee Taengkhiao 
The Nation 

 

BANGKOK: -- ACADEMICS and representatives of non-government groups have urged the government to review whether its policies are keeping the poor “in a poverty trap” and favouring the business sector.

 

They voiced their concern during a seminar titled “The Fate of |the Poor during the Transitional Period: Whose Stability, Prosperity |and Sustainability?”, held at Thammasat University yesterday.

Decharut Sukkumnoed, a lecturer from Kasetsart University’s Faculty of Economics, told the forum the benefits from economic growth need to be shared among all groups of people if development is to be sustainable.

 

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Just the way the yellows like it.

No-shit-sherlock. Duh!

Catching title for the seminar, just rolls off the tongue doesn't it ?

They probably spent more time thinking that up than they did deliberating a conclusion that doesn't take an ' academic ' to reach.

Infant mortality, a good indicator of spiking inequality and poverty, tends to rise in the years after military coups. Since the books are even more cooked than usual, and since there is no need for public accountability and transparency, this is an important figure to keep an eye on.

Edited November 27, 20169 yr by debate101

 

New flash... there will be always poor people in Thailand and a lot of them too,

and there always segment of the elite or others that would prefer to see the poor

stay poor, so no matter how many symposiums, seminars and think tanks

there will set up, this country and others around the world will have poor people...

Interesting! The accusation in Thailand is poverty trap.

 

The accusation in the West is that the rich are getting richer, and the poor, poorer...

3 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

Catching title for the seminar, just rolls off the tongue doesn't it ?

They probably spent more time thinking that up than they did deliberating a conclusion that doesn't take an ' academic ' to reach.

That's probably as far as one can go without facing attitude adjustment...

The academics are to be applauded for their willingness to bring this issue to light...in many dictatorships this event would never happen...what are they doing to disperse the information to the citizenry in a form they can understand?

5 hours ago, jerojero said:

No-shit-sherlock. Duh!

Where does the Government send Academics for Gov't Re-education ?

2 hours ago, trogers said:

Interesting! The accusation in Thailand is poverty trap.

 

The accusation in the West is that the rich are getting richer, and the poor, poorer...

Very true in both cases, only words thats all.

2 hours ago, trogers said:

Interesting! The accusation in Thailand is poverty trap.

 

The accusation in the West is that the rich are getting richer, and the poor, poorer...

think you are right about this. america the leader of the western world now has a new class of people called the working poor. they work but get paid so little they still need some welfare. over a third of americans are now on welfare. it seems the whole world is heading toward a poverty trap, not just thailand.

On the bright side, speakers at the forum said the universal healthcare scheme and free education by the government had helped low-income families.

 

any chance that this govt will expand on these programs??? 

It will keep happening around the world until people stand up.  This doesn't happen until desperation sets in.  Even then, the results are mixed.

This is the world we live in.

The poverty trap has been forever there and it is a way for any kind of government to have their population control over and at the same time make the farmer borrow money and put their lands against the loan knowing that on a long run the farmer will be without land and re settle some where else.

North America is the same way except they promote young, middle ,and old folks to get in debt by using credit cards.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The Fate of |the Poor during the Transitional Period

Maybe better titled:

The Fate of the Poor During Resurgence of the Oligarchy

The poverty trap will be around for the next few years if Thailand GDP flounder within

the 3-4% and the agriculture prices not likely to improve. Our best years were between 2000 to 2006 when GDP consistently reach above 5% and the government have good policies for the poor. Then the number of those below poverty line was reduced by almost 30%. Most of those in poverty are in the north, northeast and deep south and depends on agriculture. Without a good number of years GDP growth, good agriculture prices and solution for drought, the poverty issue will never be reduced. Coups make matter worse.