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Keeping People’s Hope Alive through HOPES: Social Contributions of Thailand’s
Government Lottery Office
Pol.Maj.Gen. Attagrit TharechatDirector-General of The Government Lottery Office, Thailand
The Theme of Presentation
• Theoretical background• Social contributions of the Government
Lottery Office (GLO)• Strategies to keep people’s hope alive
Theoretical Background
• Lottery sales stimulate economic growth• The total amount of economic consumption
is $200 million/month (2.4 billion/year)• This is the economic growth engine that is
propelled by the poor in the form of a regressive tax
Where does the money go?
To the people as prize money
To government as revenue
As sales commission
As operations cost60%
28%
9% 3%
Social Contributions of GLO• Thai Red Cross• Public hospital
infrastructure• Quality health services• Educational development• Environmental protection• Social welfare
Keeping People’s Hope Alive
• Strategies are needed to redirect the 28% regressive tax for social programs for the poor through the HOPES program.
Keeping People’s Hope Alive
• HOPES stands for Handing Opportunity to Peoples’ Enterprises in a Socially responsible manner.
Keeping People’s Hope Alive
• Start-up an endowment fund to address:• Health promotion• Occupational development• Poverty alleviation• Educational advancement
An Efficient Strategy to Carry out the HOPES Program
• Strategic partnership with local governments
• Allocate and redistribute regressive tax revenue to the people through local governments
• Empower people through local government• Promoting decentralized management
Contribution to Blue Economy• Promoting projects that break the poverty
trap• Making the bad economy (not benefiting
people) more difficult to operate• Helping the good economy to operate more
easily• Creating more income equality