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Thailand's economic dilemmas in post-pandemic Asia / Richard Yarrow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yarrow, Richard, author.
- Series:
- Trends in Southeast Asia ; issue 14.
- Trends in Southeast Asia ; issue 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects--Thailand.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Thailand--Economic conditions--1986-.
- Thailand.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 51 pages) : illustrations (colour), digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, 2023.
- Summary:
- While Thailand's health system has fared relatively well through the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's economy faced significant strains and likely a harsher downturn than other economies in Southeast Asia. In particular, the services sector-heavily reliant on international tourism-suffered, and debt levels worsened substantially during the pandemic. Thailand's economy has steadily recovered following the peak of the pandemic in 2020, with greater optimism coming from the growing trade in goods and growing investments from China and Japan. The tourism sector has also steadily regained strength since the worst points of the pandemic. Despite these recent positive turns, Thailand still faces daunting long-term economic and societal challenges, many of which were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This text examines these important topics.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- ECONOMIC PERILS OF THE PANDEMIC
- IS THAILAND’S ECONOMY IMPROVING?
- LONG-TERM CHALLENGES REMAIN
- CONDITIONS IN AGRICULTURE: STILL A LARGE SOCIOECONOMIC FOUNDATION
- IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT: WHAT PATHS CAN THAILAND’S ECONOMY FOLLOW?
- CONCLUSION
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- At foot of title: ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 5, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9789815011791
- 9815011790
- OCLC:
- 1350423875
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