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Thailand's increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub … Thailand's intra-regional trade, physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and infrastructure funding as … there are projects planned in these areas that could impact Thailand and its links to Southeast Asia and beyond to South …
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Thailand and find that a small open country would be better off shifting to a basket peg or to a floating regime than …
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This paper reviews Thailand's structural changes, the 1997 crisis experience, and recovery and lessons from the crisis … recovery from the 1997 crisis left Thailand more dependent than ever on exports as the main engine of growth, with the ratio of … learned from the 1997 crisis led to a more risk-averse financial system, and this helped Thailand avoid the direct impacts of …
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case studies: Wanzai, PRC; Wuyuan, PRC; Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. The results show considerable …
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Thailand - an outward-oriented regional production hub - is one of East Asia's most active users of free trade … agreements (FTAs) as an instrument of commercial policy. By December 2009, Thailand had 11 concluded FTAs, and more were either … systematic study of the business impact of FTAs in Thailand. Key findings are as follows: (i) 24.9% of respondents used Thai FTAs …
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This paper examines several aspects of the rehabilitation and reconstruction program that followed the 2004 tsunami in Asia. Almost 230,000 people died in the disaster. We focus on two main issues: aid delivery and reconstruction policy following the disaster. Although issues such as immediate...
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on organic and conventional rice-farming households in North and Northeast Thailand in 2006. The results show that health …
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In Thailand climate change has been integrated into the formulation of several national plans and policies. Even though … Thailand is not obligated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it voluntarily takes numerous actions to mitigate emissions. Both … efficiency are the primary means to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in Thailand. With the establishment of the Energy …
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This paper addresses the issue of financial inclusion in Thailand through the lens of an institutional analysis, which … shape the existing provision of financial inclusion in Thailand. In discussing the achievement of the desired outcomes in … the context of Thailand. …
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of most Asian economies. The main obstacle to the development of the SME sector is the lack of stable finance. Considering the bank-dominated characteristic of economies in Asia, banks are the main source of financing, and the lack of a...
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