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และวิเคราะห์ศักยภาพการควบรวมท้องถิ่นขนาดเล็ก

Fourth, from our survey of small-sized local units (those in
rankpop<501), from which we obtain 159 returned questionnaire. Data
analysis leads to a conclusion that: i) most local units have known about
the intention of government to support local amalgamation along the
proposal of the NRSA, ii) about one-thirds of local units have discussed
over the proposal for amalgamation; iii) the local administrators
perceived that so far the government had not strongly pushed for local
merge, as the government has been silenced about the process in detail
nor the condition for local merge specified; iv) about two-thirds of local
administrators and government officers agree with the idea that “One
tambon, one local administration”; v) some administrators agree with the
idea for local merge as this could lessen inequality at least to a certain
extent and some provide supporting evidence that the local public
services in rural area were inadequate and clearly less than the nearby
urban located units—yet this statement if far from being definitive or
conclusive.
Fifth, from past experiences we found 2 case studies of successful
and voluntarily amalgamation: the first case refers to the Wang Nam Yen
Municipality, and we learned from a site-visit and discussion that the
merge was successful, people were satisfied, the municipality’s activities
expanded and, over the past years, the municipality received the “good
governance award” from government several times.

Sixth, part of our analysis focusses on “risk of being forced to
merge” which comprise of 4 components (or variables) which somehow
indicate inefficient use of resource: the first component refers to R1:
poor or “below par” in the score of LPA; the second component refers
to R2: too high dependence on grant or subsidy from government
budget; the third component is expressed in R3: high per capita staff
expenditure, and the fourth component R4: the ratio of local staffs to
1000population is very high or significantly above the mean level.

Seventh, there is a possibility for voluntary amalgamation and yet
it may be reasonable to provide a special grant in transition for

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