Removing Financial Bottlenecks to Labor Productivity in Thailand
Removing Financial Bottlenecks to Labor Productivity in Thailand
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消除泰国劳动生产率的金融瓶颈
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4615-5155-3_19
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发表时间：
1999
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R. Townsend
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作者：
R. Townsend
美国国家卫生研究所（NTH）和国家科学基金会（NSF）通过国家民意研究中心（NORC）和芝加哥大学资助了一项在泰国进行的大型社会经济/机构调查，该调查是本文的主要投入。在危机之前就已收到资金并设计了调查，目的是了解和分析当时泰国增长的结构基础。一个特别的目标是评价各种非正式和正式金融机构的作用，从家庭和亲友网络到金融公司和商业银行。在设计这项研究时，一个特别令人关切的问题是，先前的增长与日益加剧的不平等和明显的金融深化有关。长期以来，日益加剧的不平等一直是泰国政府关注的问题，在某种程度上，金融深化，或至少通过一套特定的机构提供有针对性的信贷，一直被作为一种部分补救措施加以推广。总之，在设计本项目时，人们认为重要的是要了解这些不同的金融和社会机构在增长、不平等和金融深化中所发挥的作用。
The National Institute of Health (NTH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S. have been funding through the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and the University of Chicago a large socioeconomic/institutional survey in Thailand which serves as a major input for this paper. The funding was received and the surveys designed prior to the crisis with the goal of understanding and analyzing the structural underpinnings of Thai growth at that time. A particular goal was the evaluation of the role of various kinds of financial institutions, both informal and formal, running the gamut from the family and networks of friends and relatives to finance companies and commercial banks. In designing the study, a particular concern was the observation that prior growth was associated with increasing inequality and apparent financial deepening. Increasing inequality had long been a concern of the Thai government, and to some extent financial deepening, or at least targeted credit through a particular set of institutions, has been promoted as a partial remedy. In summary it was thought important at the time of the design of the project to understand the role that these various financial and social institutions were playing in growth, inequality, and financial deepening.