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Rethinking the Role of Agriculture and Agro-Industry in the Economic Development of Thailand: Input-Output and CGE Analyses (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Full text linkThailand’s economic development has been quite successful in terms of achieving high growth rate and reasonable per capita income. The country’s economic performance in terms of the transformation of production and exports are tending toward the normal pattern of increasing share of manufactured products. However, the major problems Thailand is still facing are the late reduction of its agricultural labor force, inequality that has occurred as a result of the development process, and problems in potential of manufacturing industrial sectors. These three issues are made the main discussions of this dissertation. In addition, structural transformation in Thailand has posed many difficulties for the development of Thai agriculture, which is closely related to the welfare of the poor in the rural areas. Therefore, to tackle income distribution problems directly requires that farmers be given new opportunities. Agro-industry and high value-added agricultural sectors were proposed as the key sectors to improve inequality problems, smoothen employment transformation, generate high growth and induce high output production, and act as a bridge connecting Thai primary agriculture with the modern sectors. Agro-industry was proposed to be promoted in the rural areas for closer input locations, to shift agricultural workers from primary agriculture, to improve the real wage of farmers, and to prevent extensive urban migration. Qualitative analysis, input-output analysis, SAM analysis, and CGE analysis were applied to aid the discussions, prove the hypothesis, and achieve the objective.Structural transformation; Thai agriculture; Thai agro-industry; Income distribution; Thailand's economic development; Thailand's economic growth; Input-output analysis; SAM analysis; CGE analysis
Rethinking the Role of the Agricultural Sector in the Thai Economy and Its Income Distribution: A SAM Analysis
Full text linkThe Agricultural sector has played a significant role in the Thai economy. It has been an engine of Thai industrial growth in the past. Its various kinds of good-quality agricultural produce and its strong comparative advantage are globally well-known. However, Thai agriculture has been devitalized since the 1980s and its population has been excluded from the country’s rapid development and growth opportunities. The bias of government policies has been the main cause of the depressed agrarian conditions. This paper investigates potential for reviving the role of the agricultural sector in the Thai economy and improving its income distribution, using a Social Accounting Matrix（SAM）for analysis. It studies how stimulations of the Thai agricultural sector would affect the Thai economy and its income distribution compared to the manufacturing industrial sectors. Results from the policy simulations show clearly that agricultural and agricultural-processing sectors in Thailand have higher potential to increase domestic production through linkage or multiplier effects compared to that of manufacturing industrial sector. The agricultural and agricultural-processing sectors also have better potentials to generate more income to different households, to create better income distribution, and to induce more savings in the country
Rethinking the Role of the Agricultural Sector in the Thai Economy and Its Income Distribution: A SAM Analysis
Full text linkThe Agricultural sector has played a significant role in the Thai economy. It has been an engine of Thai industrial growth in the past. Its various kinds of good-quality agricultural produce and its strong comparative advantage are globally well-known. However, Thai agriculture has been devitalized since the 1980s and its population has been excluded from the country’s rapid development and growth opportunities. The bias of government policies has been the main cause of the depressed agrarian conditions. This paper investigates potential for reviving the role of the agricultural sector in the Thai economy and improving its income distribution, using a Social Accounting Matrix（SAM）for analysis. It studies how stimulations of the Thai agricultural sector would affect the Thai economy and its income distribution compared to the manufacturing industrial sectors. Results from the policy simulations show clearly that agricultural and agricultural-processing sectors in Thailand have higher potential to increase domestic production through linkage or multiplier effects compared to that of manufacturing industrial sector. The agricultural and agricultural-processing sectors also have better potentials to generate more income to different households, to create better income distribution, and to induce more savings in the country.Thai agriculture; Agricultural sector; income distribution; SAM analysis
Rethinking the Role of Agriculture and Agro-Industry in the Economic Development of Thailand: Input-Output and CGE Analyses (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Full text linkThailand’s economic development has been quite successful in terms of achieving high growth rate and reasonable per capita income. The country’s economic performance in terms of the transformation of production and exports are tending toward the normal pattern of increasing share of manufactured products. However, the major problems Thailand is still facing are the late reduction of its agricultural labor force, inequality that has occurred as a result of the development process, and problems in potential of manufacturing industrial sectors. These three issues are made the main discussions of this dissertation. In addition, structural transformation in Thailand has posed many difficulties for the development of Thai agriculture, which is closely related to the welfare of the poor in the rural areas. Therefore, to tackle income distribution problems directly requires that farmers be given new opportunities. Agro-industry and high value-added agricultural sectors were proposed as the key sectors to improve inequality problems, smoothen employment transformation, generate high growth and induce high output production, and act as a bridge connecting Thai primary agriculture with the modern sectors. Agro-industry was proposed to be promoted in the rural areas for closer input locations, to shift agricultural workers from primary agriculture, to improve the real wage of farmers, and to prevent extensive urban migration. Qualitative analysis, input-output analysis, SAM analysis, and CGE analysis were applied to aid the discussions, prove the hypothesis, and achieve the objective
Rethinking the Role of the Agricultural Sector in the Thai Economy and Its Income Distribution : A SAM Analysis
No full textRethinking the Role of the Agricultural Sector in the Thai Economy and Its Income Distribution : A SAM Analysis
Full text link2004-08The Agricultural sector has played a significant role in the Thai economy. It has been an engine of Thai industrial growth in the past. Its various kinds of good-quality agricultural produce and its strong comparative advantage are globally well-known. However, Thai agriculture has been devitalized since the 1980s and its population has been excluded from the country’s rapid development and growth opportunities. The bias of government policies has been the main cause of the depressed agrarian conditions. This paper investigates potential for reviving the role of the agricultural sector in the Thai economy and improving its income distribution, using a Social Accounting Matrix（SAM）for analysis. It studies how stimulations of the Thai agricultural sector would affect the Thai economy and its income distribution compared to the manufacturing industrial sectors. Results from the policy simulations show clearly that agricultural and agricultural-processing sectors in Thailand have higher potential to increase domestic production through linkage or multiplier effects compared to that of manufacturing industrial sector. The agricultural and agricultural-processing sectors also have better potentials to generate more income to different households, to create better income distribution, and to induce more savings in the country.departmental bulletin pape
Industrial Growth in Indiana: Demand Side Decomposition, 2001-2006
Full text linkThis paper evaluates Indiana’s economy by using an input-output (I-O) model to decompose output growth of two sectors into regional demand, external demand, the progress of import substitutions, and technological change. We use the Syrquin (1976, 1986, 1988) industry decomposition method to perform this analysis. We examine two industries that have been central to state level economic development policy: logistics and manufacturing of life sciences products. We found that the logistics sector has responded slowly during the post-recession growth experienced by many of the remaining sectors. However, the surgical sector performed well in terms of deepening interindustry linkages
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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