
Thailand's Rice Politics with Jacob Ricks
The Nordic Asia Podcast
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What Is Patty Pledging?
The 19 97 constitution was designed to strengthen political parties. Along comes toxin china and the tyrati party. When he came to power, he almost immediately began subsidizing rice farmers. He changed the patty pledging scheme so there were no longer kind of restrictions on the policy that would force farmers to repay the loan instead. The government became the largest rice buyer in tyland because of the way taxan changed the scheme.
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