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Social protection for the poor: Evaluating Thailand's state welfare card programme

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  • Wannaphong Durongkaveroj
  • Riswandi Riswandi

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In recent decades, cash transfers have played an important role in enhancing social protection in developing countries. This paper examines the causal effects of Thailand's large-scale unconditional cash transfer programme (“the state welfare card programme”) that covered over 20 percent of the country's population. Using regression discontinuity methods and nationally representative household socio-economic surveys, the results suggest that this programme had a negative and statistically significant impact on total expenditure and food expenditure.

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  • Wannaphong Durongkaveroj & Riswandi Riswandi, 2025. "Social protection for the poor: Evaluating Thailand's state welfare card programme," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-103, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2025-103
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