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  "title": "Thailand: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues report on Thailand discusses the rapid growth years of the country before and after the 1997 balance-of-payments crisis.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- This Selected Issues report on Thailand discusses the rapid growth years of the country before and after the 1997 balance-of-payments crisis.\n- The report discusses development of the crisis and the steps taken to normalize the situation.\n- The report discusses credit growth before and after the crisis.\n- The report discusses public debt dynamics in the aftermath of the crisis.\n- The report discusses export performance before and after the crisis.\n- The report includes an analysis of the role of fiscal policy that led to the 1997 crisis.\n- The report highlights weaknesses that were threatening the sustainability of Thailand's economic growth.\n- Publication date: March 3, 2000."
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      "heading": "Major themes and substantive findings",
      "content": "- Development and normalization of the 1997 balance-of-payments crisis:\n  - Diagnostic analysis of how the crisis developed and policy steps taken to restore stability.\n- Credit growth:\n  - Comparative discussion of credit growth patterns before and after the crisis.\n- Public debt dynamics:\n  - Examination of public debt behavior in the aftermath of the crisis.\n- Export performance:\n  - Assessment of export performance before and after the crisis.\n- Fiscal policy role:\n  - Analysis of fiscal policy measures and their contribution to the 1997 crisis.\n- Structural weaknesses:\n  - Identification of weaknesses threatening the sustainability of Thailand's economic growth."
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      "content": "- Subject: Asset and liability management, Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Debt restructuring, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Money, Public debt\n- 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\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Thailand: Selected Issues - ISCR/00/21\n  - Thailand: Selected Issues - ISCR/00/21 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Thailand: Selected Issues - ISCR/00/21 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: March 3, 2000",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451836813.002",
    "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.",
    "Development and normalization of the 1997 balance-of-payments crisis:",
    "Export performance:",
    "Fiscal policy role:",
    "Structural weaknesses:",
    "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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