A Siamese Tragedy

Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand

Author: Shea Cunningham, Walden F. Bello and Kheng Po Li

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Even before the catastrophic collapse of 1997-98, the Thai economic miracle of the previous decade had feet of clay A Siamese Tragedy critique the failing economic system that has propelled the Thai people down an unsustainable path, and looks at how it can build an economic system that cares for its people and its natural resources.

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Walden Bello is a political activist and Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of the Philippines in Manila, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South, a policy research institute based in Bangkok and for which he was the Founding Director. He was previously executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) in Oakland, California and was educated at Princeton University. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, whose website describes him as "one o