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Smart climate money is on women
Oped, Published on 19/11/2021
» Women account for 43% of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, but account for only about 7% of investment in the sector. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, investing more in female farmers could increase agricultural yields by up to 30% -- almost enough to offset the decline in output expected by 2030 because of climate change.
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Bridge inequality gap or worse will follow
News, Decharut Sukkumnoed, Published on 13/12/2018
» The latest annual Global Wealth Report by Credit Suisse (CS) ranked Thailand as one of the countries with the highest rates of economic inequality, stunning many people, including policymakers.
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Asean needs to cross boundaries
News, Shamshad Akhtar, Published on 20/02/2017
» The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has shown to be an exemplary role model for regional cooperation guiding the 10-country bloc on the path toward shared prosperity and sustainable development.
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Thais opt for quick fix over full democracy
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 11/08/2016
» The results of Sunday's constitutional referendum demonstrate a critical reversion of political thought among Thai voters. In voting for a less democratic draft constitution, they have made it clear they prefer immediate remedies for political and economic woes rather than fully-fledged democracy.
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Puey's passage stirs up old questions, issues
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 11/03/2016
» As Thai society has been caught up in a cultish and contentious search for the khon dee, or "good people", few can be more justifiably glorified than Puey Ungphakorn, a heroic Thai patriot from the Second World War and a quintessential technocrat who worked under military-authoritarian rule without selling his soul to it. This week marks the centennial of his life, with an outpouring of tributes and adulations around campuses and offices and in the minds of many. The questions and issues that preoccupied him in his prime throughout the 1950s-70s are still at the heart of what ails Thai society today.
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Health care is a basic right
News, Published on 18/07/2014
» One thing has to be made clear about the country’s universal coverage healthcare programme. It is not a populist policy. Access to healthcare services is a basic human right. It is also an essential public welfare system that saves lives and rescues people from bankruptcy after incurring expensive health expenses.
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