Global study notes Thailand’s exemplary progress under sufficiency economy model
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- A study compiled by the global research and consultancy firm Oxford Business Group (OBG) charts Thailand’s successful transition from net aid recipient to donor, while exploring how its model for sustainable development could be adopted or adapted still further across the Global South.

 

OBG’s data feature in a special report titled “South-South in Action: Sustainability in Thailand – Experience for Developing Countries”, produced by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

 

The report was launched in January at the UN headquarters in New York in the presence of dignitaries, government delegations, UN officials, partners and the media. The report marks the first in what will be a series of “South-South in Action” publications by UNOSSC. 

 

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19 hours ago, webfact said:

charts Thailand’s successful transition from net aid recipient to donor

While another study charts Thailand's slide from a Flawed Democracy to a Hybrid Regime.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/971646-thailand’s-democracy-index-ranking-continues-to-slide-downward/?utm_source=newsletter-20170303-0643&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

 

Donating to what?? old age pensions, helping the poor?

Why does the official media always confuse "sustainability" and "sufficiency", they are two very different concepts ?

"...model for sustainable development..."

 

Absolutely correct. Sustained at the lowest level of development, with very little chance of improving.

 

 

Living within your means. 

 

It's a lot easier to live within your means when your means are great. A lot harder when you're poor and have absolutely nothing. 

 

Guess what, rich people? Poor people also want nice things. 

I would have thought from a net bandaid economy to being run by a premadonor

Living within your means. 
 
It's a lot easier to live within your means when your means are great. A lot harder when you're poor and have absolutely nothing. 
 
Guess what, rich people? Poor people also want nice things. 

Nice things are not for poor people.
Poor people are there to provide the wealth for the rich people to acquire nice things.

A good mantra for the rich to remember, they can recite it as they are chased down the street by the poor, who will inevitably lose patience with the grotesque disparity in wealth, allied to advice that their lot is sufficient...

An international report about Thailand that isn't critical?

Expect the powers that be to issue a denial.

Their excuse box doesn't have ready to go acceptance statements.

16 minutes ago, JAG said:

Nice things are not for poor people.
Poor people are there to provide the wealth for the rich people to acquire nice things.

A good mantra for the rich to remember, they can recite it as they are chased down the street by the poor, who will inevitably lose patience with the grotesque disparity in wealth, allied to advice that their lot is sufficient...

I wait for that day. 

 

The rich who've exposed the poor to make money deserve everything they get. 

The only problem with this article is that Thailand has never operated under any system that resembles the sufficiency economy. Rather it has been using a combination of unregulated capitalism combined with an efficient system of kick-backs & corruption... 

 

hmmmmm, the report WILL be published, ... I can't wait... 

LOL

2 hours ago, rkidlad said:

I wait for that day. 

 

The rich who've exposed the poor to make money deserve everything they get. 

Don't hold your breath waiting...

.........net aid recipient to donor, .......

 

And to whom are they donating? Foreign Aid?

Co-produced by Thai Foreign Affairs.... Expect anything but a glowing report? All BS

An international report about Thailand that isn't critical?
Expect the powers that be to issue a denial.
Their excuse box doesn't have ready to go acceptance statements.

LOL and I bet this thread won't go past 3 pages either

I wait for that day. 
 
The rich who've exposed the poor to make money deserve everything they get. 

Don't hold your breath waiting...

Oh it may well take quite some time, but as sure as night follows day, unless something is done to redress the balance it will happen.

Oxford Business Group out of Dubai

 

Lets move on then

6 hours ago, JAG said:

 

Oh it may well take quite some time, but as sure as night follows day, unless something is done to redress the balance it will happen.

 

That I 100% believe. If the people weren't so complacent/taught to be so complacent, I'm sure it would have happened already. 

But for the moment, they can afford to buy mobile phones, motorbikes and cars on HP and counterfeit handbags/watches. They're still content. 

All is good. 

Read a little more deeply guys.

 

Oxford Business Group is a specialist business report agency who only produce positive government assisted reports. 

 

Here is a sample of the most recent reports 2017 ranging from Algeria to Myanmar and Oman. All upbeat!!

 

http://www.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/country-reports

 

They are uncritical and do not evaluate items outside of their hosts' scope. Akin to lobbyists, they know their market. In any event there is no money here in negative spin.

 

 

Yeah, my son was offered an interview by Oxford Business Group. There work model is that they employ fresh, unemployed university graduates from practically any discipline, call them 'business consultants', works them to death and basically as said produces reports which flatter the government, then the government buys the report, so they can circulate it to the gullible. They are popular with flawed democracies and dictatorships in the ME. There is a reason why they are not based in the UK or other responsible countries - the lack of ethics and employment laws where they are based .....