Working Paper
Benign growth
– Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand
Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry’s...
Working Paper
Employment effects of joining global production networks
– Does domestic value added matter?
Is the emphasis placed in trade and industry policy-making in developing countries on the share of domestic value-added (‘value-added ratio’) in exports consistent with the objective of achieving economic development through an export-oriented...
Book Chapter
Benign growth
– Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand
Part of Book
The Developer’s Dilemma
Working Paper
Revisiting the returns to education during rapid structural and rural transformation in Thailand
– A regression discontinuity approach
This paper estimates returns to schooling in Thailand, applying a regression discontinuity approach to the change in the compulsory schooling law in 1978. This law helped to enhance human capital investment on the eve of rapid structural...