Today’s policymakers understand the power of networks but need more guidance on how to build and employ them as tools of competition in a contested world rather than a world of open borders and markets.
Jiraporn Maysoongnoen, 58, cannot recall when she was ever debt-free. As a new teacher at 18 with a monthly salary starting at 2,200 baht (S$83.62), she took out a loan for a motorcycle so she could ride to work in eastern Thailand. To supplement her income, she started a tour business two decades ago, borrowing again to buy tour buses..