Author: Apisek Pansuwan
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss. no.RD-11-07
Year: 2011
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2011
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Allen J. Scott, Mokbul M. Ahmad, Kyoko Kusakabe(Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Economic development is closely dependent on industrial development, not only with respect to the industrial sector’s pivotal contribution to economic growth but also on the structural transformation of an economy. In Thailand, industrialization and urbanization have been the major driving forces towards modernization starting in the early 1960s. With the government’s objective of putting more emphasis on industrial development, a number of policies and strategies had been developed and adopted during the past four decades. This thesis research focused on the industrial development policies and the factors that influenced the regional pattern of industrial development in Thailand. Specifically, this study has aimed to assess the effectiveness of the policies of the Government of Thailand towards dispersing the manufacturing factories away from Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR). Thus, with the main purpose of examining the industrial development pattern in Thailand including the factors that influenced the location patterns of industries as well as the relationship between industries and rural economic development, especially in terms of employment generation, this study had been envisaged to help the policy-makers of the Government of Thailand in better understanding the industrial development trend of the country at the macro level. In the analysis of such patterns, policies and influential factors, both secondary and primary sources of data and information were availed of in the course of this research. The descriptive analyses of the study have aimed to investigate the impact of the trend of industrialization on the changing manufacturing structure of Thailand. For the analysis of the industrial development pattern and regional variation from 1996 to 2005, indicators were developed for computingcomposite indices in order to extract the meaningful information and set th
Scholarship Donor(s): Ministry of Education
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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