Townsend Thai Project Key Informant Annual Resurvey, 2005

The project is carried out in Thailand under the direction of Khun Sombat Sakuntasathhien and dedicated staff. The project is administered in the United States at the National Opinion Research Center and the University of Chicago. Survey design and research collaborators include Anna Paulson of Northwestern University, Tae Joeng Lee of Yonse University, and Michael Binford of the University of Florida. Robert M. Townsend is overall project director and principal investigator. The initial purpose of the NICHD-NSF funded project was to evaluate the role of informal institutions such as the family and local networks in helping to support the welfare and well-being of individuals in semi-urban and rural areas of Thailand. Risk, and the potentially adverse and direct consequences of household- and firm-specific shocks is a key part of project. The mediating role of the family and social and economic networks in the mobilization of savings and allocation of c redit was also deemed essential. These networks are not viewed in isolation but rather are part of the larger village, regional, and national level financial system. Thus the project includes an evaluation of village-level financial institutions, such as Production Credit Groups and rice banks, and national-level financial institutions such as commercial banks and the government agricultural bank, the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC). Indeed, the project has both micro and macro aspects. It seeks to evaluate informal and formal financial institutions and markets and to construct and evaluate macro models of growth, fluctuations, and crisis. The macro models are based on the measured micro- underpinnings. For this part of the study, the headman from each village was interviewed.

本项目于泰国开展，由孔·颂巴特·沙坤塔萨提恩（Khun Sombat Sakuntasathhien）与专业执行团队统筹推进。项目在美国由全国民意研究中心（National Opinion Research Center）及芝加哥大学（University of Chicago）负责运营管理。本项目的调研设计与研究合作方包括西北大学（Northwestern University）的安娜·保尔森（Anna Paulson）、延世大学（Yonsei University）的李泰正（Tae Joeng Lee），以及佛罗里达大学（University of Florida）的迈克尔·宾福德（Michael Binford）。罗伯特·M·汤森（Robert M. Townsend）担任项目总负责人与首席研究员。本项目由NICHD-NSF（美国国立儿童健康与人类发展研究所与美国国家科学基金会）资助，初始目标为评估家庭、地方社会网络等非正式制度，在助力泰国半城镇与农村地区居民维系福利与福祉方面的作用。家庭与企业特有的冲击所引发的风险，及其潜在的负面直接影响，亦是本项目的核心研究内容之一。此外，家庭与社会经济网络在储蓄动员与信贷配置中的中介作用，同样被视作关键研究环节。此类社会经济网络并非孤立存在，而是更大范围的村级、区域级与国家级金融体系的有机组成部分。因此，本项目同时涵盖对村级金融机构（如生产信贷小组（Production Credit Groups）、稻米银行），以及国家级金融机构（如商业银行、政府农业信贷机构——农业与农业合作社银行（BAAC））的评估工作。本项目兼具微观与宏观研究维度：既旨在评估非正式与正式金融机构及市场，也致力于构建并评估与经济增长、波动及危机相关的宏观模型。此类宏观模型均以实测得到的微观基础为核心依据。针对本研究的宏观维度部分，项目组对各村村长开展了访谈调研。