Chapter 4. Fix-it centres: Adaptation and outcomes of the “clusters of the poor”. A case study in Chiang Mai
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3 juillet 2018
- doi: 10.4000/books.irasec.746
- isbn: 9786169028208
- eisbn: 9782355960000
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Audrey Baron-Gutty et al., « Chapter 4. Fix-it centres: Adaptation and outcomes of the “clusters of the poor”. A case study in Chiang Mai », Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine, ID : 10.4000/books.irasec.746
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In the same vein as industrial cluster programmes, fix-it centres were launched in Thailand in 2005 by the second Thaksin administration to develop interactions between vocational colleges, community, and local government. The first aim was to boost economic development and, on the top of that, political goals were added such as decentralization, community empowerment or self-sufficiency. Despite all of this, fix-it centres were endowed with limited resources, which led us to name them “the clusters of the poor” or “grassroots clusters”. The hybrid structure that consequently evolved has had to deal with uphill challenges, and, to assess the achievements of the fix-it centre programme, we focused on a case in the Chiang Mai area. The results have proved to be very different both from genuine clusters and from the outcomes planned by Thai policymakers.