Research

Research Interest 

International trade, global value chains, poverty, income inequality

Publications in Journal

2025

1. Cash subsidies for the poor: Evaluating Thailand's state welfare card programme, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, online published

2. Perceptions towards income inequality in the process of economic development: Evidence from international panel data, accepted at Asian Development Review

3. Tolerance for inequality in Thailand, Cogent Economics & Finance, 13(1), 2461597 

2024

1. Structural transformation and inequality: Does trade openness matter? World Economy, 47(6), 2631-2663

2. Trade openness and the growth-poverty nexus: Reappraisal with a new openness indicator, Asian Development Review, 41(2), 7-29.

3. Trade and investment patterns of electric vehicles, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 41(3), 197-220, with Archanun Kohpaiboon

2023

1. Recent developments in basic education in Thailand: Issues and challenges, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 36 (Feb 2023), pp. S20-S33 

2. The economic impact of special economic zones: Evidence from Thailand, Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences, 44(2), 377–386.

3. Learning loss due to university closures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand's largest public university, Thailand and the World Economy, 41(2), 103-122. 

2022

1. "Emphasis on domestic value added in export in the era of global value chain: Evidence from Thailand," Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Forthcoming. 

2. "Does the minimum wage improve the welfare of workers? Evidence from the 2013 minimum wage reform in Thailand," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 36(2), 52-70.

3. "Employment effects of joining global production networks: Does domestic value added matter? ," Review of Development Economics, 26(3), 1269-1285.

4. "Structural Transformation, Income Inequality and Government Expenditure: Evidence from International Panel Data ," Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 56(3), 29-44.

2019 

1. "Relative effects of trade liberalization on poverty: Evidence from Thailand,", with Taehyun Ryu, Progress in Development Studies, 19(4), 264-283.

2018

1. "Tolerance for inequality: Hirschman's tunnel effect revisited," Journal of International Development, 30(7), 1240-1247.

Book Chapter

2023

1. "The pandemic in Thailand: With special reference to informal workers' problems", in Christian Aspalter (ed.), Covid-19 Pandemic: Problems Arising in Health and Social Policy, Springer Nature.

2022

1. "Water politics in the greater Mekong subregion: Implications and challenges on Thailand’s border trade and inbound labour immigration", with Upalat Korwatanasakul, in Brahma Chellaney and Frederick Kliem (eds.), The Displaced: Disrupted Trade, Labour, and Politics in the Mekong River Basin (pp: 256-281), Japan: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Association Japan.

2021

1. "Financing the welfare state system in Thailand", in Christian Aspalter (ed.), Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia (pp: 125-147), London: Routledge. 

Articles (Non-technical)

1. "Thailand's post-pandemic economic recovery still trailing behind" East Asia Forum (Feb 2024)

2. "Thailand's digital stimulus plan is a race to nowhere" in East Asia Forum (Nov 2023)

3. "Debates over Thailand's minimum wage rages," in East Asia Forum (Dec 2022)

4. "The fight to not be left behind: Higher education in the pandemic," in Policy Forum (April 2022)

5. "Thailand's COVID-19 prisons outbreak: Time for an early release," in New Mandala (May 2021)

6. "Lifting the veil on Thailand's COVID-19 success story," in East Asia Forum (Aug 2020)

7. "Thailand's grand welfare experiment," in Policy Forum (Jan 2020)

8. "Hirschman’s Linkages: Passé in the Age of Global Production Sharing?," in Developing Economies (June 2019)

9. "Unequal Thailand: Trends and consequences," in Development Policy Blog (Dec 2018)

10. "An end to poverty in Thailand is not on the cards," Policy Forum (Sep 2018)

11. "Revisiting Hirschman’s Tunnel Effect and Its Relevance for China," in Developing Economies (June 2018)

12. "Not in the zone: Thailand's special economic zones fail to meet expectations," in Policy Forum (March 2018)

Work in Progress

1. The U.S.-China Decoupling and its implications on the Thai economy (Researcher, Commission Research for Trade Policy and Strategic Office, Ministry of Commerce) 

2. Structural transformation and income inequality (Principal investigator, funded by Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research, and Innovation)

3. The economic impact of Thailand's welfare card (Principal investigator, funded by Ramkhamhaeng University)