Authors: Laura Camfield Awae Masae J Allister McGregor Buapun Promphaking
Publish Date: 2012/10/31
Volume: 114, Issue: 3, Pages: 1049-1072
Abstract
The paper provides microlevel evidence of rising inequality in Thailand using data from an intensive study of seven communities in Northeast and Southern Thailand This inequality affects participants’ material and subjective wellbeing their aspirations and the extent to which they feel these are realised The paper argues that adaptation expressed as reduced aspirations could explain why the effect of material poverty on people’s satisfaction with their lives is small The reduction in attainment of aspirations linked to socioeconomic status suggests that a small but constant group of people are being excluded from a shift in the societal consensus over what constitutes a good life
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