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Sufficiency economy = poverty?

January 10th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 24 Comments

In my post of earlier today I discussed the emphasis placed in Thailand’s 2007 Human Development Report on “sufficiency economy.” As I work through the report I will provide a series of posts (as time permits) on some of its key issues. In this post I focus on Chapter 1 in which the key human development [...]

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Sufficiency economy and human development

January 10th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 5 Comments

 
In a move that some commentators will find rather bewildering the UNDP’s 2007 Human Development Report for Thailand provides a strong endorsement of the sufficiency economy approach. The report was launched yesterday and is available here. The UNDP website for Thailand reports:
Thailand’s “Sufficiency Economy” holds the key for reducing poverty, combating corruption, and buffering the [...]

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Tags: Publications · Sufficiency Economy · Thailand