World Bank report offers Thailand a primer on tackling inequality, poverty
Improvement in worker skills and increasing female participation in the labour force are some of the key recommendation for Thailand in the latest World Bank report released on Wednesday.
The report, titled “Bridging the Gap: Inequality and Jobs in Thailand”, aims to provide a movement landscape of the country’s income and employment inequality. It attempts to answer three questions: how did poverty and inequality change over the last two decades and what drove these changes? What causes persistent inequality? And, how did the COVID-19 crisis affect poverty and inequality trends?
World Bank’s country manager for Thailand, Fabrizio Zarcone, said the data would aid in the development of Thailand’s strategic policies and practical measures to reduce inequality and poverty.
The Nation Reporter
