Thailand: Adjusting to Success: Current Policy Issues

ByDavid Robinson, Ranjit S Teja, Yangho Byeon, Wanda S Tseng

September 15, 1991

Summary

Thailand's sucess with economic development in recent decades is due mainly to is commitment to an outward-looking, market-based economy, a development strategy centered on the private sector, and cautious financial policies. This papers dicusses recent economic strains and how the authorities are coping with them to sustain the momentum of development

Subject: Balance of payments, Banking, Commercial banks, Environment, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Foreign direct investment, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Commercial banks, Contributionto broad money growth, currency holding, deficit, East Asia, Foreign direct investment, Global, investment incentive system, Middle East, net, nonbank private sector, OP, South America, South Asia, tariff exemption, tariff rate, tariff reform, tariff structure, Tariffs

Pages:
58
Volume:
1991
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557752215.084
Issue:
014
Series:
Occasional Paper No. 1991/014
Stock No:
S085EA0000000
ISBN:
9781557752215
ISSN:
0251-6365

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