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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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The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training programs of enterprises. Differences between small,...
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In Thailand, the government has long recognized the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the … important issue for Thailand may not be about the lack of financial assistance per se but about how to design an appropriate … Thailand. By making use of commercial banks' competitive advantage, Thailand can create a more market-friendly environment for …
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Commodity prices have become volatile over the past 2 decades, and their recent sharp decline has decreased the consumer price index inflation rates for most economies. While many Asian economies have benefited from low international oil and food prices, commodity exporters have suffered. Thus,...
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The primary objective of this paper is to highlight the contribution of the recent methodological refinements of poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Using the general...
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reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …
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as Thailand, primarily due to the potential strain on its limited resources. Given the potential effect of obesity on the … Thai health system, this paper discusses the trends, causes, and impact of obesity in Thailand. It is particularly geared … literature, this paper addresses the following topics. The epidemiology of obesity in Thailand is described to provide an …
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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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