1. Keeping People’s Hope Alive through HOPES : Social Contributions of Thailand’s Government Lottery Office Pol.Maj.Gen. Attagrit Tharechat Director-General of The Government Lottery Office, Thailand

2. The Theme of Presentation Theoretical background Social contributions of the Government Lottery Office (GLO) Strategies to keep people’s hope alive

3. 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

4. Where does the money go?

5. Social Contributions of GLO Thai Red Cross Public hospital infrastructure Quality health services Educational development Environmental protection Social welfare

6. Keeping People’s Hope Alive Strategies are needed to redirect the 28% regressive tax for social programs for the poor through the HOPES program.

7. Keeping People’s Hope Alive HOPES stands for Handing Opportunity to Peoples’ Enterprises in a Socially responsible manner.

8. Keeping People’s Hope Alive Start-up an endowment fund to address: Health promotion Occupational development Poverty alleviation Educational advancement

9. 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

10. 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

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