Thailand: Selected Issues

IMF Staff Country Reports, March 3, 2000

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• Published: March 3, 2000
• Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451836813.002

Summary

• This Selected Issues report on Thailand discusses the rapid growth years of the country before and after the 1997 balance-of-payments crisis.
• The report discusses development of the crisis and the steps taken to normalize the situation.
• The report discusses credit growth before and after the crisis.
• The report discusses public debt dynamics in the aftermath of the crisis.
• The report discusses export performance before and after the crisis.
• The report includes an analysis of the role of fiscal policy that led to the 1997 crisis.
• The report highlights weaknesses that were threatening the sustainability of Thailand's economic growth.
• Publication date: March 3, 2000.

Major themes and substantive findings

• Development and normalization of the 1997 balance-of-payments crisis:
  • Diagnostic analysis of how the crisis developed and policy steps taken to restore stability.
• Credit growth:
  • Comparative discussion of credit growth patterns before and after the crisis.
• Public debt dynamics:
  • Examination of public debt behavior in the aftermath of the crisis.
• Export performance:
  • Assessment of export performance before and after the crisis.
• Fiscal policy role:
  • Analysis of fiscal policy measures and their contribution to the 1997 crisis.
• Structural weaknesses:
  • Identification of weaknesses threatening the sustainability of Thailand's economic growth.

Subject classification and keywords

• Subject: Asset and liability management, Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Debt restructuring, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Money, Public debt
• Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Commercial banks, cost, CR, Credit, Debt restructuring, deficit, expenditure impulse, export, Financial sector, GDP share, interest cost, ISCR, lending rate, Thailand, unit value

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• Thailand: Selected Issues - ISCR/00/21
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