Income Inequality in Thailand: A Relative Poverty Approach

• Main Authors: Meemon1, Natthani, Zhang, Ning J., Wan, Thomas T. H., Paek, Seung Chun
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: poverty; income inequality; sense of relative deprivation; relative poverty; absolute poverty; OECD countries; Thailand
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol22/iss3/6; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1464/viewcontent/RA_205.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study explored income inequality in Thailand using the OECD’s relative poverty indicator. Based on 2013 and 2017 data from Thailand and the OECD, we compared trends in poverty between countries. Then, by selecting the working-age population in Thailand, we examined several socioeconomic determi...