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Archer, Diane. "Social capital and participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok, Thailand." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244821.
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This study applies the concept of social capital to participatory slum upgrading, specifically the Baan Mankong (“secure housing”) programme in Bangkok. The Baan Mankong programme uses community participation to meet the housing needs of the urban poor, with financial assistance from the state. Since starting in 2003, the programme has drawn international praise, and is being scaled-up nationally, yet few studies have examined its social and institutional outcomes, focusing rather on the physical outputs. This study tries to fill this gap: as a programme that aims to be about “more than just houses”, attention needs to be paid to its impacts on both horizontal and vertical associations to determine whether it really offers an increased role for the urban poor in governance. A qualitative approach was taken, using semi-structured interviews, participant observation and discussion groups in four case-study communities. The analysis is structured on three levels: intra-community ties, inter-community ties, and state-community linkages, representing bonding, bridging and linking social capital respectively. At the level of intra-community relations, the study finds that upgrading had positive but temporary effects on collective action. Community leadership can be a uniting or dividing force, determining whether collective activities are sustained. Slum networks, representing inter-community relations, are essential for scaling-up upgrading through learning-by-doing. There is scope for cooperation between different networks for unity in negotiations with the state. With regard to community-state linkages, bureaucracy can still be a barrier to effective cooperation, and trust in officials remains low. This study focuses on those at the core of the upgrading process, and offers suggestions for ensuring that collective action provides the best results for both the urban poor and the state. Social capital is a valuable resource for the poor, when the formation of horizontal and vertical associations is actively promoted. As participatory development becomes the new paradigm and the poor increasingly take the initiative in ensuring their needs are met, a fuller understanding of Thailand’s experiences can help shape housing and community development policies elsewhere.
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Poomkaew, Pimolporn. "Leadership, social capital and community development in rural Thailand." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428462.
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Zhang, Liying Wassana Im-em. "Social capital and cardiovascular disease mobidity in Kanchanaburi, Thailand /." Abstract, 2005. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2548/cd376/4537398.pdf.
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Ramdeja, Vasu Virabhadra. "Investment and financing decisions of firms in Pacific Rim countries : theory and evidence." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369361.
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Chuairuang, Suranai. "Relational Networks and Family Firm Capital Structure in Thailand : Theory and Practice." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-79317.
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Firms must access capital to remain in business. Small firms have greater difficulty accessing financial resources than have large firms because of their limited access to capital markets. These difficulties are exacerbated by information asymmetries between a small firm’ s management and capital providers. It has been theorized that many information asymmetries can be reduced through networks that link those in need of capital with those who can supply it. This research is about these relationships and their impact on the firms’ capital structure. This research has been limited to a sub-set of small firms, family firms. I have collected data through a survey using a systematic sampling procedure. Both self-administered questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were utilized. The data analysis was based on the responses from two-hundred-and-fifty-six small manufacturing firms in Thailand. Seemingly unrelated regression (SUR), logistic regression, multiple discriminant analysis and Mann-Whitney U test were employed in the analysis. The hypothesis that firms apply a pecking order in their capital raising was confirmed although the generally accepted rationale based on poor access (and information asymmetries) was rejected. Instead, at least for family firms, the desire to maintain family control had a significant impact on the use of retained earnings and owner’s savings. My results also indicated that while the depth of relationships had a positive effect on direct funding from family and friends, networks did not facilitate capital access from external providers of funds. Instead direct communications between owner-managers and their capital providers (particularly bank officials) mattered. A comparative analysisof small manufacturing firms in general and small family manufacturing firms revealed that there were differences between them in regard to their financial preferences, suggesting that family firms should be considered separately in small firm research. Further, the results of this research raise some questions about the appropriateness of applying theories directly from one research context to another without due consideration for the impact of cultural influences. Through this research I have added evidence to the dialogue about small firms from a non-English speaking country by investigating the impact of networks on capital structure and the rationale behind family firm capital structure decisions.
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Kimura, Yuichi. "The role of big cities in human capital accumulation : Evidence from Thailand." Kyoto University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/145327.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(経済学)
甲第11126号
経博第196号
新制||経||194(附属図書館)
22695
UT51-2004-R2
京都大学大学院経済学研究科経済システム分析専攻
(主査)教授 藤田 昌久, 助教授 森 知也, 助教授 文 世一
学位規則第4条第1項該当
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Tapphavimol, Kornkanok. "The impact of foreign capital inflow on domestic savings in Thailand 1970-1984." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1986. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1830.
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For the last two decades, foreign capital was considered as one of the most important factors in Thailand because of an attempt to raise the level of economic growth. After 1962, domestic savings were not adequate for the accumulation of capital, which allowed foreign capital to flow into the country in many forms, i.e., foreign aid, foreign private investment and other capital inflows. Economists had argued that effects of foreign capital inflows would either increase or decrease the economic development in Thailand.
The objective of this study is to estimate the impact of foreign capital inflows on the level of domestic savings. The disaggregated foreign capital inflows are in three parts: 1) foreign aid (AID); 2) foreign private investment (FPI): and 3) other capital inflows (RFI), and used time-series data in Thailand between 1970 and 1984. By using the two-stages least square approach, results show that both foreign aid and foreign private investment have inverse relationships to both domestic savings and growth rate of GNP. In effect, one can conclude that an increase in foreign capital inflow leads to a decrease in domestic savings. But for the overall economy, foreign capital still is the important factor in order to increase employment, technology and other things.
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Bjarnegård, Elin. "Men in Politics : Revisiting Patterns of Gendered Parliamentary Representation in Thailand and Beyond." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-110638.
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Male parliamentary dominance, rather than the corresponding female parliamentary underrepresentation, is the object of study in this thesis. This shift in focus implies a gendered analysis centered on men and men’s practices. The thesis contributes to our understanding of how male dominance is maintained and reinvented by empirically studying male parliamentary dominance in clientelist settings. Worldwide trends of parliamentary representation are analyzed statistically and constitute the starting-point for a case study of male political networks in Thailand. Clientelism is a strategy used by political actors to increase predictability in politically unpredictable settings. The thesis shows that clientelism is an informal political practice that requires the building and maintenance of large and localized networks to help distribute services, goods and/or money in exchange for political support. Where political parties also use candidate selection procedures that are informal, exclusive and localized, there are ample openings for clientelist practices to translate into political power and ultimately parliamentary seats. This study also coins and develops a new concept: homosocial capital. It shows that clientelist networks are and continue to be male dominated because homosocial capital, a political capital accessible only to men, is needed for electoral success. Homosocial capital has two main components: a perceived pragmatic necessity to build linkages to those with access to important resources in society and a more psychological desire to cooperate with individuals whose behavior can be understood, predicted and trusted.
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Petkanjanapong, Poome. "Decentralization, social capital, and capability in environmental management : case study of Tambon Maeta, Chiang Mai, Thailand." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51552.
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This research uses social capital concepts to study changes of capability in environmental self-management in Tambon Maeta, Chiang Mai, Thailand, after decentralization. From the macro perspective, this research found that the Maeta social network’s structure was much changed by decentralization, with noticeably greater social capital and capability in environmental management evident following the transition. Decentralization extended the size of the network, increased diversity in the population of Maeta network members, and expanded the number of political resources held by people in the network. In turn, this reshaping of the social network generated greater embedded resources, which are a determinate of social capital. This study found that, at the relational level, people in Tambon Maeta use social linkages as a main channel for resource exchange, both between organizations and between local government and local people. Local organizations’ and local governments’ capabilities in environmental management stem partly from the social capital of their respective leaders, such that their access to embedded resources in the Tambon Maeta social network is determined by the strength of ties between these leaders. The stronger the linkages, the greater the ability of local organizations to receive and share resources. For individuals, ordinary people who have stronger ties with local government officers can receive superior information more promptly, which affects their capability in environmental use and supervision. The results of this research demonstrate that decentralization can promote rural people’s capability in environmental self-management even when a central government has not directly transferred authority over environmental regulations to local governments. In addition, building strong relationships with local environmental groups can increase a local government’s capability in environmental management.Arts, Faculty of
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Kumpamool, Chamaiporn. "Equity and debt market timing, cost of capital and value and performance : evidence from listed firms in Thailand." Thesis, University of Hull, 2018. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16883.
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Market timing is an infant theory of capital structure used to explain concealed motivation of managers. Equity market timing refers to equity issuance when the stock market is favourable to reduce the cost of capital, while debt market timing refers to debt financing when the interest rate is particularly low to minimize the cost of capital. However, there is no consensus in the literature as to whether firms can take such advantages in real markets, especially in Thailand. Furthermore, it is far from settled as to what the determining factors of market timing are. Additionally, the success of the decrease in cost of capital remains ambiguous. This study investigates market timing theory through three empirical studies. The first study examines the presence of equity market timing in Thailand with 285 IPO firms and 1,038 SEO issuances from 2000 to 2014. The results reveal that IPO and SEO firms tend to take advantage in the stock market when the market is in a good condition, such as a hot period, economic expansion, and bullish time. In addition, the study finds that timers obtain higher proceeds and maintain these proceeds as cash after offering. Moreover, this is the first study to explore how the corporate governance dimension is the potential determinants of equity market timing. The second study looks at the existence of debt market timing in Thailand with 189 corporate bond's issuances from 2001 to 2014. The results indicate that the firms tend to time the debt market when the market is hot and there is a low interest rate. Likewise, we find that timers gain more proceeds and pay lower interest rates. Moreover, this is the first study to reveal that timers retain the proceeds as cash after issuance and that the corporate governance and board structure are significant determinants of debt market timing. The third study investigates the influence of market timing on cost of capital and firm performance. We find that market timing policy can lead to both success and failure of cost reduction and performance increment, depending on the types of issued securities, the strategy of market timing, and the method of cost of capital and firm performance estimation. Furthermore, this study provides some suggestions for managers, shareholders, investors, regulators and other stakeholders to comprehend the cause and effect of market timing and to prepare in order to protect their benefits. Also, this study informs regulators and policy makers to improve the efficiency of stock and bond markets in Thailand.
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Inthisang, Jirapa. "Essay on income inequality: Export and FDI, employment, and income inequality in Thailand: A SAM approach, and, The effect of capital account liberalization on education and income inequality: A human capital approach." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3315851.
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Galbreath, Sarah L. "Community Planning with Religious Sites: Understanding the Relationship of Theravada Buddhist Temples in Khon Kaen, Thailand, and their Surrounding Community." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1530023994174655.
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Sinswat, Wilatluk. "Exploring the operationalisation of Sen's capability approach in relation to economic development policy framework : analytical and empirical issues : a case study of capital account liberalisation policy in Thailand." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615077.
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Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus. "Essays in labour economics : Thailand's labour market adjustment during the structural transformation process." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:73e151f9-f38a-45af-9cda-a4e759162b39.
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I examine the importance of human capital for economic development in Thailand during the period of high economic growth and structural transformation (1985-2000), using labour force survey data. The three main chapters attempt to estimate the effects of education, as a measure of human capital, on three major outcomes in the Thai labour market, namely (i) earnings; (ii) sector of employment; and (iii) earnings inequality. I address the endogeneity problem of education using an education policy shift—the change in the compulsory schooling law—that produces exogenous variation in education. The three main chapters adopt distinct modelling frameworks. The details of each of the main chapters are as follows. The third chapter investigates how education increases earnings and the probability of being in the non-agricultural sector. As the education policy shift influences educational attainment in a discontinuous way, a regression discontinuity (RD) framework is adopted to identify the average returns to education and the effect of education on the sector of employment. It is important to emphasise that the RD technique constrains the effects of education on the two outcomes to be linear and to be applicable only to sub-populations. My results confirm significant effects of education on both earnings and the sectoral sorting process. In addition, there are heterogeneous effects of education by gender. The fourth chapter is an extension of the previous chapter. I allow the returns to education to be heterogeneous across education levels and sectors of employment, while attempting to estimate the returns for the entire population. I use a control function (CF) approach and a double selection correction to estimate the sectoral earnings process, while jointly accounting for the choice of education and the selection into sectors and paid employment. I find that the returns to education are non-linear and higher in the non-agricultural sector especially for medium and highly educated workers. This suggests that human capital plays a crucial role in facilitating a structural transformation towards the non-agricultural sector. In the final chapter, I study how the increased primary education completion rate affects earnings inequality. While there exists a burgeoning literature on the average returns to education, less attention has been devoted to estimating the effects of education on the distribution of earnings. I identify the effects of primary education completion on earnings at different points of the distribution, and thus earnings inequality, using a recently developed approach, called regression discontinuity distributional treatment effects. My results suggest that the increased primary education completion rate reduces earnings inequality as the returns to primary education are larger for the poor than the rich.
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Leu, Kuen-Tzen, and 呂坤鎮. "Foreign Capital on Corporate Financing Decisions : Thailand Experiences." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93760902755511915613.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
財務金融學系
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For emerging countries, opening stock markets to foreign investors is the trend in the pass ten years. Out of policy consideration, there are many restrictions coming with the opening and setting limits to foreign ownership is the most common one. Taiwan allows foreigners to invest in its stock market only from 1982 and the foreign ownership limits have not been reached. However, foreign investment will increase following the inclusion of the Taiwan stock market into the Morgan Stanley index. We need to adopt new policies in case of foreign ownership limits are reached. Any policies might have effects on corporate financing decisions and need to be evaluated. This paper examines the effect on corporate financing decisions of the policy adopted by the Thailand Stock Exchange. The Thailand Stock Exchange maintains two separate listing for common stocks which have reached foreign ownership limits, one listing for locals and the other for foreigners. For companies which have reached their foreign ownership limits, Thais continue to trade shares on Main Board while foreigners submit order to the Alien Board. The major purpose of this paper is to compare the differences on rights offering between the two kinds of companies. The main results are as follows. 1. The two kinds of companies have no significant differences on the frequency of rights offering. 2. The companies with Alien Board have less allocation ratio than the companies without Alien Board. While there is no significant gap on subscription price between the two kinds of companies. 3. The ratio of rights offering to the raising capital is significant affected by the profit, debt ratio, size, stock return and the type of company. 4. The companies without Alien Board prefer rights offering than the companies with Alien Board.
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WANGROONGSARB, NANTHAPORN, and 黃美玲. "Initial leverage and Capital Structure: Evidence from Thailand." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/x5z8g4.
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碩士國立臺北大學
財務金融英語碩士 學位學程(GMBA)
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This study investigates how initial leverage affects capital structure decision of 94 Thailand listed companies from year 1991 to 2017. Recent research suggests that initial leverage has significant explanatory power to current leverage in U.S. Our empirical results show that, in Thailand, initial leverage is positively significant with capital structure after controlling other factors. We also conduct several robustness checks and the result tends to remain except for firms which are close to default.
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Barmé, Scot. "Towards a social history of Bangkok : gender, class and popular culture in the Siamese capital - 1905-1940." Phd thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145985.
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Beja, Edsel L. "Capital flight from Southeast Asia case studies on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand /." 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/145424439.html.
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Jongwanich, Juthathip. "Exchange rate regimes, capital account opening and real exchange rates : evidence from Thailand." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150915.
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PaveenaThaw-udom and 趙艷明. "Working Capital Management, Operating Performance and Corporate Value: SMEs in Thailand." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87469099973327819242.
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碩士國立成功大學
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Nowadays small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand are growth rapidly. Then this research examined (1) the relationship between working capital management and their financial performance, and (2) the relationship between working capital management and corporate value for SMEs in Thailand. The sample comprised of 88 companies in seven (7) sectors (Agro and Food Industry, Consumer Products, Industrials, Property ＆ Construction, Recourses, Services and Technology) listed in the Market for Alternative Investment (MAI) for the period of 2009 to 2013 which provided quarterly data. This study used cash conversion cycle (CCC), return on asset (ROA) and Tobin's q to serve as proxies for working capital management, companies' performance, and corporate value, respectively. Panel regression analysis is used as a method to analyze the data. The results show that there is a significant relationship between working capital management and profitability. In contrast, there are no significant relationship between working capital management and corporate value. These SMEs in Thailand are able to use working capital management for control profitability but they cannot be suitable for corporate value.
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Lin, Shu-Ching, and 林淑靜. "The State, Social Capital and Economic Development：Comparing Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia research." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53119877983933525416.
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碩士國立成功大學
政治經濟學研究所
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The origin of this thesis comes from several theoretical and practical reflections. First, for a long time, they overemphasize thoughts of relationship between state and economic development. Next, they overvalue researches of the relationship between civil society and social capital. Finally they neglect researches of the relationship between the state and the social capital. For the aforementioned situations, the thesis attempts to regard the social capital as the intervening variable between the state and the economic development and to show the importance of the state during social capital building process by emphasizing that the state is capable of cultivating social capital during the development process of the social capital. The thesis also indicates that social capital can promote economic development. Based on the above viewpoints, the thesis attempts to establish an integrated analysis framework from the state, social capital and economic development. The analysis framework is applied to case study of Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia. Then, based on the results of the case study, several different development modes are generalized to facilitate comparing and classifying different countries.
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Reungsri, Thanapat. "The impact of public infrastructure investment on economic growth in Thailand." 2010. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/15497.
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Giné, Xavier. "Access to capital in rural Thailand : an estimated model of formal vs. informal credit /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3019918.
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Geran, Jean M. "Coping with crisis : social capital and the resilience of rural livelihoods in Northern Thailand /." 2001. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.
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Weng, Yu-Chou, and 翁裕洲. "The Accumulation and Transformation of Chinese Capital in Thailand－Sino-Thai Banking Family in Changing." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12341132981851206316.
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東南亞研究所
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In this thesis, I want to answer the question of“How Sino-Thai Chinese capitals were infused in banking and financial sector of Thailand and which of them were dominating？”I tried to solve the puzzle in three perspectives：changes in Social structures, economic situation within and without Thailand, and attitudes of government toward Chinese. Between 1855 and 1970, Chinese capital in Thailand was transformed from“tax farmer capital”and“capital of rice miller and trader”into“Sino-Thai banking and financial capital.”First, we found that traditional Siam structure of Sakdina system, where in assimilation force of Chinese tax farmers has weakened. This kind of capital accumulation was ended. They were replaced by rice miller and trader who subsequently dominated sea trade networks of“Bangkok-Singapore-Hong Kong-Swatow”. These Chinese merchants have advantage of integrating their family business into banking and financial sector. After 1932, the members of revolutionary of People’s Party and military generals pursued economic nationalism, leading to the appearance of Thai people’s bureaucrat capital. Thai political elites in government were aggressively involved in all kinds of business activities Chinese merchants had earned their living for many years. The most dramatic is the intervention in rice mill industry and export trade. Henceforth, the banking and financial sector fell into hands of the Chinese capital of rice miller and trader. We Found that the big four Sino-Thai Banks had emerge after World War Ⅱ, including Bangkok Bank, Thai Farmers Bank, Bank of Ayudhya and Bangkok Metropolitan Bank. It is evident that the capital of rice miller and trader was heavily involved in these banks. Moreover, the management and ownership of the four banks were primarily controlled by the four Chinese families －Sophonpanich, Lamsam, Ratanarak and Techapaiboon till 1970s. Then maintenance of the patron-client relationship made their dominance in banking business a success.
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Phaiboontham, Phiraboon. "The articulation of modes of production in Thailand land, labour, capital and the state in economic transformations /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/16187681.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-319).
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Reungsri, Thanapat. "The impact of public infrastructure investment on economic growth in Thailand." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15497/.
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This study investigates the effects of public infrastructure investment on economic growth under Thailand‟s fiscal sustainability framework. A recursive supply-side model based on the Standard Neoclassical Model framework is used using Thai national data on public revenue (taxes, non-tax revenue and debt) to estimate infrastructure investment. An aggregate production function is used based on quarterly time series data from 1993 to 2006. This period comprises economic circumstances in Thailand including recession and recovery. Variables were subjected to unit root test to justify stationary status. If all variables were stationary, the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method was used in estimation. If all variables were non-stationary and of an order I(1), then the cointegration test was conducted for long-run equilibrium. If the variables confirm cointegration, then the Error Correction Model was estimated using OLS, as the error correction term is constructed to estimate for coefficients. If the variables were found to have a mix of stationary and non-stationary variables, then the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model was used in the estimation. Finally, a simulation process was conducted, based on the estimated model, termed Infrastructure Finance Model for Emerging Economies. Simulation was carried out with ex-ante and ex-post scenarios: to generate a time-path within the data time period to prove model consistency; and for time-path values beyond the time period to provide prediction for policy decisions. The simulation consists of five scenarios: maximum borrowing or 20 per cent of budget; 15 per cent of budget; 10 per cent of budget; 5 per cent of budget; and no borrowing, or no effect on budget.
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The results indicate that public infrastructure investment has a mixed effect on domestic growth. A positive result is found in lagged public investment as a proportion of GDP at the third quarter, confirming that infrastructure capital has a positive significant effect on economic growth. However, a negative impact is found in lagged real government investment at the second quarter. As public investment increases, the demand for resources also increases and, given full capacity for the economy, this may lead to increased costs of private investment, resulting in a fall in private investment and thus reduce economic growth (crowding-out effect). Hence, under conditions of full capacity, an increase in public investment could result in negative impact on growth. The Infrastructure Finance model is therefore a useful indicator of private sector intentions for resource expenditure.
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Wiwattanakantang, Yupana. "The ownership structure, capital structure and performance of Thai firms." Thesis, 2000. https://doi.org/10.11501/3185538.
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Krüger, Jens. "Constraints to informal entrepreneurs in developing countries." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0001-BBFD-B.
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Harriden, Kate. "Stormwater : why waste it." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148197.
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Chanchamsang, Uravadee. "The consequences of formal study abroad programs on Thai medical doctors: a literature review and research." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19461.
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Many Thai scholars are skeptical that Thai medical doctors can utilize knowledge and skills in Thailand from experience acquired when they study abroad, due to cultural differences, including a hierarchical culture that places importance on seniority and can prevent medical doctors seeking to actualize those new skills when they return to work in Thailand. Despite growing interest in and study of globalization, there are few existing studies that explore the relationship between social and individual consequences of formal study abroad programs. Nor are there many studies that apply sociological theory on the professions to less developed countries, or that focus on the relationship between power and culture in medical education in Thailand. This thesis will explore these topics by first reviewing and discussing three main bodies of sociological literature on medical professionalization, educational institutions, and study abroad. Given the gaps in the literature, it proposes a comparative study that relies on in-depth interviews with two groups of Thai medical doctors: those who have studied abroad and those who have not. The comparative design will allow the researcher to gain leverage on the consequences of study abroad to individual career trajectories, as well as the broader healthcare system, and contributes to the building of new sociological theory. Despite the many challenges that Thai doctors who go abroad face in adapting and actualizing new skills, I hypothesize that study abroad alters Thailand’s social hierarchy through the creation of a new class of “international doctors,” endowed with new skills, knowledge and cultural capital. While the benefits of belonging to this elite class may not be manifested immediately, due to the seniority system, they become apparent over time.
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Suttisa, Choopug. "Civil society in the Chi River, Northeast Thailand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Policy and Social Work at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1550.
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The thesis 'Civil Society in the Chi River, Northeast Thailand', aims to answer the questions of what civil society means in the Northeast Thai village context, which factors make civil society proactive and how civil society is activated. Participatory action research (PAR) was carried out in two communities in the Chi River Basin to answer the inquiries. The research discusses the contexts of the Northeast Region and the two communities in the Chi River Basin. The people in this area are of the Thai-Laos ethnic group and hold particular beliefs in an amalgam of Buddhism and animism which creates cultural rituals that are different from other regions. The society is based on kinship ties. The economic situation has transformed from an agrarian society to a commercial agriculture society. Through the research process the new term of 'grounded civil society' was created. It means 'the sphere of an autonomous group of local people who actively participate in collective action to deal with their struggles and promote their common interests by mobilizing cultural and social capitals in consort with other people to productively solve their problems. Grounded civil society may include traditional forms of mutual assistance, and formal or informal social associations. It seeks to have a significant influence on public policy at any level'. The research found that grounded civil society was activated by both outside and inside factors. The outside factors included the negative effect of government development projects and the intervention of the participatory action research, which stimulated local people to engage in civil society. The inside factors activating civil society were the poor economic conditions of the villagers and the social capital existing in the communities. The social capital was built up around kinship ties and cultural capital, which generated the social values and norms of the local people. The research concluded with an analysis of the causal links between social capital and civil society claiming that social capital facilitated the creation of civil society. Further research possibilities are suggested.
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Manole, Vlad Mihail. "Essays on migration and diversity, tariff aggregators and the productivity of banking systems /." 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/547427743.pdf.
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Kuo, Hung-ling, and 郭虹伶. "The Political Economy of Thailand’s Financial Regime Reconstruction in Post-Financial Crisis Era: The Perspective of State-Business Financial Capital Relations." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55559299793838033305.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
東南亞研究所
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Thailand’s financial crisis in mid-1997 aroused a grave shock among economists and political decision makers. This thesis aims to explore how the state-business relations continue to influence the construction of Thailand’s financial regime in “post-financial crisis” era. Generally speaking, political actors in Thailand, including the royal family, military personnel, bureaucrats, financial groups, have long been the very unique benefit groups, in which each actor will attempt to prevent others from entering the circle of benefit allocation. Thus following a successful coup, a successor will abolish the constitution, and enact a new one, which actions are carried out based on the wills of those in power. Hence the problem rooted in core financial benefits within state-business relations still cannot be resolved. When booties fail to be satisfactorily shared among the royal family, military personnel, bureaucrats and financial groups, a political crisis as well as a military coup will occur. This research concludes that the state-business relations in Thailand do not depend on individuals --- they are inevitable products of the relations between the national power system and the structure.