Boonwara Sumano
TDRI Research Fellow
Boonwara Sumano Chenphuengpawn, PhD, is a research fellow at the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) Policy analyses from the TDRI appear in the Bangkok Post every other Wednesday.
Measuring well-being in Thai society
Social development is like a marathon, where many run together, often for a common cause, toward a singular goal. Unlike a sprint, a marathon takes hours to finish. Outcomes of social development also take time to reveal themselves. That is why actors in the social development landscape often ask -- or are asked --if they are making progress, and how far it will take to reach the goal.
Abuse against women still prevalent
In December 1999, the United Nations designated Nov 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to commemorate the murder of the Mirabal sisters, the three Dominican political activists who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in 1960. Today marks the 20th celebration of said day, and therefore it might be worthwhile to review the current situation of violence against women in Thailand.
Lockdown peril haunts abusive homes
Some of the key policies to curtail the widespread transmission of the coronavirus or Covid-19 are city-lockdowns and self-isolation.
Acting dishonestly
An actual survey that gave people the chance to make no more than 50 baht by being corrupt wound up with most of them being corrupt.
Human rights and trade
The UN Global Compact stresses that businesses must respect the protection of human rights, and ensure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Monitor your charities
There are plenty of reasons we should demand to know the destinations of our donations, which total 75 billion baht per year from Thai people.
Trading nation
The goal set in 2014 for Thailand has exposed weaknesses, the main one being the lack of education and skills needed to operate amidst world competition.
