Growth, Structural Change, and Inequality: The Experience of Thailand

Inequality Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sarntisart, Isra ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Case studies; Economic growth; Income disparities; Income distribution; Income inequality; Industrial protection policies; Industrialization planning; Inequality; Minimum wage; Protection policies; Regional income disparities; Structural change; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955323578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199271410.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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