TY - JOUR AU - Chinnasri, Walaiporn PY - 2022/08/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE DEVELOPMENT POLICY PLAN INFLUENCING ON GAP BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN AREA LEADING TO PEOPLE MIGRATION JF - Journal of Educational Review Faculty of Education in MCU JA - Education MCU VL - 9 IS - 2 SE - Original Article DO - UR - https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/EDMCU/article/view/257078 SP - 451-464 AB - <p>This article has the purpose to study on the development policy of National Economic and Social Development Plan influencing on gap between rural and urban area, to study on gap rural and urban area leading to people migration, and to propose development approach that not leading to gap between rural and urban area and migration. This article used qualitative approach with documentary method by analyzing documents, recorded statistics, related researches, journals and news. This study was found that the past development policy according to National Economic and Social Development Plan was initiated by employing main stream capitalism and state-centralization approach prioritizing Major city like Bangkok and leading Bangkok to be Single-Big City and to extend gap between urban and rural to be wider. This kind of gap causes rural people to migrate into capital city for working. Therefore, solution for solving this problem should be decentralizing power to regions and locality to reduce concentration of resources and should delegate the opportunity for local agency to use its own resources to develop its area without orders and allocation from center.</p> ER -