Background
In the 1950s, Thailand underwent a plan of development, supported by the World Bank, intended to help the country industrialize. Subsequent foreign investment in the company's economy assisted it towards meeting its goals, but while it would by the 1990s be considered a leader among developing nations, along with other Southeast Asian countries, by the World Bank and other economists, development was uneven through the country, with a long-term problem of unequal distribution of wealth and technology. The agricultural community, which had both sacrificed natural resources and contributed significant capital to the development of infrastructure to benefit the plan without seeing significant gains for themselves, grew resentful.
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