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Rethinking the Role of the Agricultural Sector in the Thai Economy and Its Income Distribution: A SAM Analysis

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  • Thaiprasert, Nalitra

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The Agricultural sector has played a significant role in the Thai economy. It has been an engine of Thai industrial growth in the past. Its various kinds of good-quality agricultural produce and its strong comparative advantage are globally well-known. However, Thai agriculture has been devitalized since the 1980s and its population has been excluded from the country’s rapid development and growth opportunities. The bias of government policies has been the main cause of the depressed agrarian conditions. This paper investigates potential for reviving the role of the agricultural sector in the Thai economy and improving its income distribution, using a Social Accounting Matrix（SAM）for analysis. It studies how stimulations of the Thai agricultural sector would affect the Thai economy and its income distribution compared to the manufacturing industrial sectors. Results from the policy simulations show clearly that agricultural and agricultural-processing sectors in Thailand have higher potential to increase domestic production through linkage or multiplier effects compared to that of manufacturing industrial sector. The agricultural and agricultural-processing sectors also have better potentials to generate more income to different households, to create better income distribution, and to induce more savings in the country.

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  • Thaiprasert, Nalitra, 2004. "Rethinking the Role of the Agricultural Sector in the Thai Economy and Its Income Distribution: A SAM Analysis," MPRA Paper 1055, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:1055
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    1. Marcos Esaú Domínguez Viera, 2009. "Aplicación de un modelo de multiplicadores contables y de análisis estructural a políticas sociales seleccionadas en el estado de Nuevo León," Ensayos Revista de Economia, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Economia, vol. 0(2), pages 95-137, November.
    2. Thaiprasert, Nalitra, 2006. "Rethinking the Role of Agriculture and Agro-Industry in the Economic Development of Thailand: Input-Output and CGE Analyses (Ph.D. Dissertation)," MPRA Paper 1089, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Pisanee Phromthep & Buraskorn Torut, 2024. "Comparing the Collaboration of Smallholder Farmers through Participatory Guarantee System Practices in Northeastern Thailand," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(10), pages 1-14, May.
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    5. Sanjaya Acharya, 2007. "Flow Structure in Nepal and the Benefit to the Poor," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 15(17), pages 1-14.

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    Keywords

    Thai agriculture; Agricultural sector; income distribution; SAM analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products

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