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The Thai countryside in the 1990s
Southeast Asian Affairs 1994 • Singapore • Published In 1994 • Pages: 320-334
By: Hirsch, Philip.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Hirsch examines the growing gap between Thailand's urban and rural populations in spite of the government's 'rural participation' policy. The improvement of the country's physical infrastructure, including roads and electricity, has tied the rural sectors more closely to urban and international markets. A policy of export-oriented industrialization and an expanding agribusiness sector have brought some prosperity to the countryside, although rural standards of living still lag behind those of urban areas. However, the increasing cost of agricultural inputs has impoverished some farmers, who have migrated and squatted in government forest preserves. Rural administrators are still appointed by a centralized government, which together with environmental degradation and growing competition for land and water between towns and cities has influenced rural social movements that have demanded the democratization of local government and more local say in policy matters.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Cereal agriculture
- Production and supply
- Towns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Central Thai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- Philip Hirsch
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74940335
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais