Saijai Kheuklang, a 45-year-old factory worker, takes off from her job and heads home. On the way, she stops at the usual market to get food for her family’s dinner. And today she has a few 100-baht notes in hand to make sure she gets enough groceries. “Everything has become much more expensive these days,” […]
Contents Don Nakornthab Revisiting Thailand’s Potential Growth Rate Yongyuth Chalamwong, Jidapa Meepien Social Protection in Thailand’s Informal Sector
Pathom Sangwongwanich Faced with challenges from high wages to the strong baht, Thai SMEs are seeking ways to turn crisis into opportunity, with varying degrees of success, writes Five months after the 300-baht daily minimum wage took effect nationwide, the mileage varies among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with some taking a big blow and […]
Wanwisa Suebnusorn, Yongyuth Chalamwong Labour Development Section, TDRI ON FEBRUARY 15, the Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation (TDRI) demonstrated its sincere and great concern over the Thai education through its year-end Annual Conference 2011 entitled “Revamping the Thai Education System: Quality for All”. The key message was that Thai education […]
Wanwisa Suebnusorn, Yongyuth Chalamwong Labour Development Section, TDRI “Thai education offers individuals a sense of failure.” This short but poignant statement by Nicholas Bennett in the 1960s may still be relevant to contemporary Thai society. In his book entitled “Education in Underdeveloped Countries”, Bennett (1965) argued that education for […]
The country’s labour-protection schemes have hardly reached informal workers and farmers. “There is a big gap between registered and unregistered workers,” Yongyuth Chalamwong of the Thailand Development Research Institute’s centre for labour development said yesterday. The Social Security Fund focuses on registered workers while the Workmen’s Compensation Fund benefits only full-time workers. “But in fact, […]
Government measures to improve labour skills to match market demand are needed to reduce the widespread impact of the daily minimum wage hike in both the short and the long term, says the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI). Yongyuth Chalamwong, a senior researcher, said the 300-baht daily minimum wage that took effect nationwide on Jan […]
Debate continues as to whether the looming wage hike will force companies to close or raise people’s purchasing power enough to compensate. One of the most debated issues of 2012 has undoubtedly been the government’s intention to hike the daily minimum wage to 300 baht nationwide on Jan 1,2013.During the 2011 election campaign, the Pheu […]
Contents Narongchai Akrasanee, David Stifel The Political Economy of ASEAN Economic Cooperation Dhira Phantumvanit Business and the Environment in Thailand Paul Hastings GIS as a Tool for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy Analysis The Political Crisis and Thailand Macroeconomic Outlook Yongyuth Chalamwong Future Regional Performance in Thailand Anupap Tiralap Technology Measurement: Searching for a Useful […]
Content Chalongphob Sussangkarn Managing Risks from Volatile Capital Flows: Multi-level Approaches Yongyuth Chalamwong Immigration to Thailand: New Challenges
Contents Mingsarn Kaosa-ard Economic Development and Institutional Failures in Thailand Yongyuth Chalamwong Economic Crisis, International Migration and the Labor Market in Thailand Deunden Nikomborirak Regulatory Dilemma in Southeast Asia Peter Hofman Public Participation in Environmental Policy in The Netherlands
