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A senior Thai official cast a dour picture for the future of Thailand’s poor earlier this week, citing such causal factors as wider economic and social gaps, surging household debts, the poor’s inability to acquire education and health services, and the increase of drug-related crimes.National Economic and Social Development Board NESDB secretary general Arkhom Termpittayapaisith also stated that vital services are concentrated in the big cities, which leave the poverty-stricken population with less access to social welfare and health services.According to Arkhom, Thailand’s poor are at present overwhelmed with higher household debt, less income and a tendency toward over-spending. He also added that the expenditures on alcohol and cigarettes by Thailand’s low-income population are several times higher than correlative expenditures by the country’s wealthy population. via Coconuts | Bangkok |.
