Uneven development in Thailand

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Uneven development in Thailand

edited by Michael J.G. Parnwell

Avebury, c1996

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Bibliography: p. 292-337

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

An analysis of the problems associated with rapid but spatially restricted economic development. The book assesses a range of aspects of uneven development in Thailand, including industrialization, urbanization, tourism, and environment and sustainability.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - uneven development in Thailand
  • Thailand's rapid economic growth - causes, sustainability and lessons
  • development or maldevelopment? the contradictions of Thailand's economic growth
  • paternalism and planning in Thailand - facilitating growth without social benefits
  • the Thai manufacturing sector - new patterns of expansion
  • problems of regional industrial development in North-East Thailand
  • development in Thailand's extended metropolitan region - the socio-economic and political implications of rapid change in an Ayutthaya district, central Thailand
  • continuity, change and "development" - the case of Thai textiles
  • rural industrialization in Thailand - village industries as a potential basis for rural development in the north-east
  • tourism development and social differentiation in Koh Samui
  • trekking in northern Thailand - impact distribution and evolution over time
  • the effects of tourism development on an Akha community - a Chiang Rai village case study
  • farmer differentiation in southern and central Thai agrarian systems - who benefits from agricultural growth?
  • who benefits from agricultural extension?
  • "training and visit" and the role of rural people's organizations in the upper north of Thailand
  • conclusion - future paths towards development in Thailand.

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