Housing as a Social Welfare Issue in Thailand (original) (raw)

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2014

Abstract

Thailand has changed considerably over the last decades following rapid economic growth based on export-oriented industrial development, an expansion of the middle class and a decline in absolute poverty. However, economic activity is still largely concentrated in and around Bangkok and income inequality is high. The country is urbanizing through large-scale, but often circular, rural-urban migration, life expectancy is increasing and fertility rates are below replacement level. Except for health care, social welfare programmes are rudimentary and cover mainly government officials and some formal-sector workers. Society expects individual efforts, supported by the family and the community, rather than social programmes of the government to ensure a basic quality of life for all.

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