From OTOP to OSOP Empowering the slum through rural development
1.4.1 Delimitations Studies in the field of both rural and urban areas have been well-documented. Arising issues keep on creating a demand for both scholars and the public and private sector to supply solutions and research. Delimitations are needed for a study to concretize itself and increase the validity, this study is not an exception. Even though the infrastructural questions as well as the need for access to necessities are of high importance, theses issues will not be discuss directly. The main focus is the improvement of creating job-opportunities, empowerment, education and participation. This study will look into the slum dwellers day to day life that live in Bangkok. With that said it will not include people who move between cities for work, mostly in construction work, and who often live in even worse and neglected conditions. These people can be regarded as a separate group within the slums and this group can’t be included due to the circumstances of the study that requires enacted inhabitants. Even though the time circumstances will not allow me to bring more variables, issues and discussion to the study, I have not been aiming to view time as a limitation of quality but more as a delimitation of the extension of covered topics.
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