Title: Building social capital in Thailand
First published: 1998
Description: Between 1984 and 1994 Thailand had the most rapid economic expansion in the world. This book offers an explanation of this successful record of economic growth in Thailand, and in Southeast Asia more generally. In a highly original argument, the book explains why Thai leaders adopted a market-driven strategy from the late 1950s, and also shows how the overseas Chinese in Thailand built on their community's social capital to overcome the market failures common to all developing countries.
Subjects: Politics and government, Industrial policy, Finance, Infrastructure (Economics), Foreign economic relations, Social policy, Economic policy, Thailand, economic conditions, Thailand, politics and government, Thailand, foreign relations, Industrial policy, asia, Finance, thailand, Political science, Business and economics, Asian studies
Places: Thailand
LC classification: HC445 .U54 1998