Financial systems in developing economies : growth, inequality, and policy evaluation in Thailand / Robert M. Townsend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Townsend, Robert M., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial institutions--Thailand.

Financial institutions.

Thailand--Economic conditions--1986-.

Thailand.

Thailand--Economic policy--1986-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text provides an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical developing economy. It is useful not only as a guide to the Thai economy but more importantly as a means of assessing the impact that financial institutions and policy variation can have.

Contents:

Introduction. The Townsend thai data: development, extent, and research engendered

The larger context: literature in review

Embracing multiple approaches: methodology and a way forward

1. Growth, inequality, poverty, and financial deepening

2. Conceptual frameworks for measurement

3. Disparities among regional economies: spatial (dis)aggregation

Micro Kuznets and Macro TFP decompositions

Driving forces: occupation, financial access, education

Integrated micro-macro models with dual financial sectors

Neoclassical benchamrks and anomalies for those with access

Impacts: experimental and econometric program evaluations

Obstacles to trade: enhanced models of selection, and the impact of policy variation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Jan. 11, 2011).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-161377-0

1-283-21551-9

0-19-161596-X

9786613215512

OCLC:

922970555