Tag: poverty @en

Suggestions for poverty reduction policy-making

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Welfare card, also known as card for the poor, has already been launched and distributed. The cabinet is busy addressing its aftermaths: unreadiness and insufficiency of electronic data capture (EDC) machines; card welfare abuse (exchange of card for cash); and budget leakage to the subrogated poor. Hence, before the database of low-income earners will be […]

Registering the poor to beat poverty

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SOMCHAI JITSUCHON PROUDFONG CHAMORNCHAN KANTAPHON AMORNRAT The Prayut Chan-o-cha government has made another attempt to tackle poverty. It has announced a plan to register more low-income Thais for the “Government Welfare Registration Programme”, which was first put in place last year to use as a database for disbursing one-time cash grants at the end of […]