泰国城市化进程的教训（Lessons from Thailands urbanization process）.docVIP

泰国城市化进程的教训（Lessons from Thailands urbanization process） Lessons from Thailands urbanization process In most developing countries, there is a wide range of urban and rural economic structures. Namely: on the one hand, in modern cities there are more developed economy, accordingly there is a stronger middle class, they have relatively rich life level, but on the other hand, in the countryside is a backward agricultural natural economy, accordingly there is also a significant number, mass poorer farmers. Such a situation forms a dualistic society. For any modern country, a binary society is prone to conflict and confrontation, which poses a great threat to social stability. Thai suffer this kind of dual society, binary opposition formed respectively on behalf of their respective political group, the two opposing coordination, street politics became a unique phenomenon in Thailand. Thailand is an agricultural country, after the industrialization of the 1970s and 1980s, the proportion of agriculture in the national economy has declined, but 60% ~ 70% of the population still live in the countryside. The pace of urbanization in Thailand has been slow. In the early 1950s, Thailands urbanization level was about 13 percentage points below the world average, about 1 percentage point above the average in southeast Asia. In 2005, the level of urbanization in Thailand was nearly 16 percentage points lower than the level of urbanization in the world, and it was 11.5 percentage points lower than the urbanization level in southeast Asia. Thailand in the past successive governments will focus on urban economic development, especially the capital Bangkok and the surrounding area, so has been relatively backward rural economy, the living standards of farmers is relatively low. Before the 1960 s, Thailands inner cities except for rough machining of natural resource products, almost no modern manufacturing industry, after a recovery period after the war, Thailand in 1954 formulated the