Arbeitspapier

Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand

Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry's gross domestic product share increased, and the share of services remained relatively constant. Agriculture's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income inequality increased until the late 1980s, then gradually declined, reaching a level in 2017 that was well below the 1981 level. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped relationship between average income and inequality but suggest no long-term 'Kuznetsian tension' between the rate of structural change and the level of inequality.

ISBN
978-92-9256-803-0
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2020/46

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
Thema
inclusive growth
inequality
poverty reduction
structural transformation
Thailand

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Warr, Peter George
Suphannachart, Waleerat
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2020/803-0
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Warr, Peter George
  • Suphannachart, Waleerat
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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