Publication: Thailand Rural Income Diagnostic: Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Farmers
Date
2022-10
ISSN
Published
2022-10
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
This report applies the framework to
diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the
rural economy and households and to assess policy options to
address these constraints. The approach builds on four
steps. The first step consists in examining the
socio-demographic profile and living conditions of rural
households. The second step assesses opportunities to
increase the income of rural households. The third step
investigates the key constraints preventing rural households
from taking advantage of these opportunities and explores
the sequencing and overlap of the constraints. The final
step examines the feasible policy actions that would help
rural households overcome the key constraints to increasing
their income. Details are provided in Figure 9. The analysis
selects the key constraints that prevent households from
taking advantage of identified opportunities. Prioritization
of constraints requires assessing the likely benefits of
pursuing the opportunities compared against the costs of
relaxing the constraints. There are four criteria suggested
by Hill (2018) that are used to identify the priority
constraints that need to be address: (1) the constraint
limits several important sources of income; (2) strength of
evidence that addressing the constraint will help income
growth, (3) the constraint has a stronger impact on poorer
households or regions, and (4) existing evidence on the need
to address the constraint first before other constraints can
be addressed. Potential feasible policy solutions are
suggested to the prioritized constraints. The potential for
the policy solutions to address the constraints, their
feasibility, and the size and breadth of their impact is
graded based on the review of evidence and discussion with
experts and stakeholders operating in the field.
Citation
“World Bank. 2022. Thailand Rural Income Diagnostic: Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Farmers. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38195 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”