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Poverty in Thailand
Until the onset of the crisis in 1997, high economic growth rates pulled poverty down from 32. ... During this period, average incomes were growing rapidly; migration from the poor areas of the Northeast to Bangkok and the Central region helped keep poverty rates in the Northeast below what they might have been; dynamic construction growth fueled demand for low and semi-skilled workers; and school enrollments increased impressively, providing the poor with access to primary and lower secondary schooling. The reduction of poverty was underway and at a fast pace.
Thailand’s poverty incidence fell to 9. ...
Thailand exceeded its poverty targets ahead of time. The target of reducing poverty to 13.7 percent, to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of the population below the poverty line between 1990 and 2015, has been met ahead of time.
This performance is due to a dramatic reduction in poverty in the Northeast. In 2000, two-thirds of Thailand’s poor lived in the Northeast and almost one in three people there were classified as poor, compared to only one in fourteen in the rest of Thailand. However, between 2000 and 2002, the poverty headcount in the Northeast fell from 28. ... 8 million, and the share of Thailand’s poor residing in the Northeast dropped from 67 percent to 61 percent. ... During the next two years, poverty incidence increased sharply. ...
While it is possible that the poor will regain quickly what they have lost once growth resumes, the current outlook for economic growth in Thailand is guarded, given global uncertainties. ...
The most common measure of poverty is the head-count ratio, which is the proportion of the population with incomes be-low an established poverty line.
The official poverty line for Thailand was established by the NESDB in 1998. The head-count ratio of poverty, based on this poverty line, fell continuously from 1993 to 1996, but then reversed itself and increased in 1998 and 1999.
Approximate Word count = 1635
Approximate Pages = 6.5
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