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Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

2019

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Illusionary Myth About Violence On The Southern Border: A Case Study Of Amphoe Sangob, Yala Province, Poramin Tangopasvilaisakul Jan 2019

Illusionary Myth About Violence On The Southern Border: A Case Study Of Amphoe Sangob, Yala Province, Poramin Tangopasvilaisakul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The objectives of the research, “Illusionary Myth about Violence on the Southern Border: A Case Study of Amphoe SaNgob, Yala Province” are to 1) study the construction of myth about and the intention of violence in Yala Province by means of power interactions between social institutions and the local people; 2) analyse and compare the perspectives on violence on the Southern border of the people within the area of violence and those outside; and 3) study the crisis concerning rhetorical representations which are related to conflict on the Southern border created by clashes and collisions, using the concept of power/discourse, …


The Impact Of Economic Development On Health : A Country-Level Analysis, Huiying Wang Jan 2019

The Impact Of Economic Development On Health : A Country-Level Analysis, Huiying Wang

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study investigates the impact of economic development on health, using a panel of 217 countries (139 high-income and 78 low-income countries for the period 1995-2018). Five dependent variables are included, which are life expectancy at birth, infant mortality, under-5 mortality, survival to age 65 for the female and the male population. The preferred regression method used is fixed effects - two stage least squares modeling (FE-2SLS). The specification includes two measures of economic development, including GDP per capita and the Gini index, as well as other macro-level variables that have been identified as important determinants for population health in …


The Determinant Of International Sovereign Bond Financing In Developing Countries, Thanatcha Varaputtanon Jan 2019

The Determinant Of International Sovereign Bond Financing In Developing Countries, Thanatcha Varaputtanon

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Governments need to secure finance for their country’s public projects. There are various ways for governments to acquire funds, for example, through taxation, borrowing money from international banks, issuing government bonds, and so on. For developing countries, a government may consider issuing international sovereign bonds to meet the country’s financial needs. This thesis looks at the determinants of international sovereign bond financing by 36 emerging economies using data collected from the Bloomberg terminal on international sovereign bonds issued between 1996 and 2016. The thesis adopts the discrete choice logit-fixed effect model to empirically verify factors suggested by S&P (2014) that …