Conflict, Legitimacy and Government Reform: Equitable Allocation of ...
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42 KPI Congress XI<br />
country’s population possesses over 100 rai but the remainder or 90 per<br />
cent <strong>of</strong> the population possesses only one rai or less. Around 811,871<br />
Thai families don’t have their own l<strong>and</strong>. Moreover, around 1-1.5 million<br />
farmer households don’t have enough l<strong>and</strong>s to make a living <strong>and</strong> have to<br />
rent l<strong>and</strong>s for their livelihood. (Preecha; 2001; cited in Duangmanee<br />
2009: 6-8)<br />
The above statistics indicate that wealth concentration in our<br />
society lies in the h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong> a marginal number <strong>of</strong> people, which is less<br />
than 10 per cent <strong>of</strong> the country. Moreover, it’s highly likely that these<br />
different types <strong>of</strong> property owners are interlinked, meaning actually they<br />
are the same clans. There is a tendency that people who have a lot <strong>of</strong><br />
deposits also own a large quantity <strong>of</strong> stocks in the stock market <strong>and</strong> a lot<br />
<strong>of</strong> l<strong>and</strong>s. Moreover, children <strong>and</strong> gr<strong>and</strong>children <strong>of</strong> these people tend to<br />
relate to each other in some kinds <strong>of</strong> family relationship, as the saying<br />
goes “boat sinks in a swamp, where will the gold go?”<br />
Income distribution: We have plenty <strong>of</strong> data on this. This is<br />
because the National Statistical Office regularly conducts nationwide<br />
surveys on household income <strong>and</strong> expenditure in Thail<strong>and</strong>, which<br />
enables us to divide household groups into various income groups,<br />
ranging from the lowest to the highest, <strong>and</strong> calculate proportions <strong>of</strong><br />
household income <strong>of</strong> different groups in GDP <strong>of</strong> the entire country.