Figure III shows that although Bangkok accounts for about 17 percent of population and 25.8
percent of GDP, it benefits from about 72.2 percent of total expenditures. This is in sharp contrast
to the Northeast which accounts for about 34 percent of population and 11.5 percent of GDP,
but received only 5.8 percent of expenditures. Even correcting for the fact that Bangkok is the
administrative capital for the country, such concentration of expenditures is extreme.