More Than Rural: Textures of Thailand's Agrarian Transformation

by Jonathan Rigg

Book Overview

In the 1970s, Thailand was developing but poor and largely agrarian. By the 1980s it had become the fastest growing large economy in the world and, in the process, made the transformation from a low-income to a middle-income economy. Fast forward to 2010 and Thailand had climbed yet another rung in the development ladder to become, according to World Bank criteria, an upper middle-income economy. Throughout this period of economic and social transformation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824892372
• ISBN13: 9780824892371
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 324 Pages