The Community Economic Development Strategy Sufficiency in the Lower Central Provinces

Abstract

         The objectives of this research are to 1) study the community development based on the principle of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy in the lower central provinces, 2) to study the factors affecting for community development based on the principle of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy in the lower central provinces and 3) to propose the guidelines for improving the factors affecting the strategies for community development based on the principle of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy in the lower central provinces. The research is a mixed methods research which combined both of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The quantitative research is conducted by studying the sample of 584 respondents two persons of each household. They are selected by snow-ball technique. The research tool for data collection is a questionnaire with the reliability of and the data are analyzed by using the statistics consisted of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and stepwise regression analysis. The results revealed that; 1. Strategic community development along the philosophy of sufficiency economy in the province, the central part is overall lower in the top 5 moderately sorted in descending order, there is the knowledge and understanding 2. Factors that affect community development along the philosophy sufficiency economy in the group of the central episode, with 3 sides consisting of 11 variables, namely natural resources operating resources to support awareness. 3. Guidelines to improve community-based development strategy incorporates the philosophy aimed at the participation of the people to achieve the emergence of local government for the foundation of development.