## Thailand: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, March 3, 2000_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 3, 2000
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451836813.002

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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.
- 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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