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31 March 2023
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No. 204

Financial Lives and the Vicious Cycle of Debt among Thai Agricultural Households

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This paper aims to explore drivers and dynamics of Thai agricultural households’ vicious cycle of debt, currently impeding their development prospects. We use unique combination of nationwide representative survey of 720 households and longitudinal administrative and financial account data from the farmer registration, the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) and the National Credit Bureau (NCB) to reflect households’ financial problems from the lens of monthly income and expenditure flows, their financial attitudes and use of financial services from all sources to smooth consumption and debt dynamics and repayment behavior. The paper also tries to renew our understanding since Siamwalla et al. (1990) on the economic problems in Thai rural financial market and attempts to identify adverse impacts of debt moratorium policies, which are among the country’s most extensive policies aiming to help Thai agricultural households. The unique granularity and coverage of our data allow us to provide better understanding of the dynamics of problems and the heterogenous patterns across households – necessary to shed some lights for the redesign of rural financial system and sustainable farmers’ debt policies.

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JEL: D82G20G28O12O16Q12Q14
Tags: agricultural householdsfinancial behaviorhousehold debtpoliciesrural financial marketthailand
The views expressed in this workshop do not necessarily reflect the views of the Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research or the Bank of Thailand.
Sommarat Chantarat
Sommarat Chantarat
Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research
Chayanee Chawanote
Chayanee Chawanote
Thammasat University
Lathaporn Ratanavararak
Lathaporn Ratanavararak
Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research
Chonnakan Rittinon
Chonnakan Rittinon
Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research
Boontida Sa-ngimnet
Boontida Sa-ngimnet
Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research
Narongrit Adultananusak
Narongrit Adultananusak
Bank of Thailand

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