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A majority of people agree with the government’s intention to create a special, long holiday similar to Songkran to help stimulate the country’s sagging economy, according to a survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.The poll was conducted online on April 6-15 ...

Thailand’s economy may expand less than forecast this year, a central bank official said on Friday, after a third wave of coronavirus infections and concerns about the presence of a highly contagious variant.The tourism-reliant economy suffered the deepest slump in over two decades last year, ...

The tourism-reliant economy could contract in the first quarter from the preceding three months and the corresponding year earlier period due to the impact of a new coronavirus outbreak, the central bank said on Wednesday.The Southeast Asian country had largely contained the spread of Covid-19 ...

Thailand’s economic growth is expected to accelerate from 2023 to 2024, driven by public investment, after slowly recovering from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the finance minister said on Wednesday.The government is maintaining its gross domestic product (GDP) growth target of 4% this year, ...

The government’s ambitious goal of 4% economic growth this year will be difficult, requiring a lot of effort and a host of supporting factors such as higher exports, recovering foreign tourist arrivals and active private investment, says the Finance Ministry’s Fiscal Policy Office (FPO).FPO adviser ...

Thailand’s economy may grow 2.8% this year but that is still not satisfactory, while fiscal measures will continue to support economic recovery as tourism remains weak, the finance minister said on Wednesday.The economy, which is heavily reliant on tourism and exports, contracted 6.1% last year, ...

The next national economic and social development plan should aim to provide Thailand a high value-added economy, according to the state planning unit.Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), said the NESDC board on Feb 15 approved a development framework ...

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) is pressing the government to address impact on liquidity from the COVID-19 situation in the business sector, arguing it will speed up economic recovery.Senior Director of Macro Economics at the BoT Chayawadee Chai-Anant pointed out that measures focused on triggering ...

Three key economic stimulus packages — the co-payment subsidy scheme, We Win financial aid programme and the Section 33 We Love Each Other programme — are instrumental to shoring up the country’s economy, boosting the country’s economic growth by a combined 1.76 percentage points this ...

Thailand’s economy slowed in January from the previous month as the recent coronavirus outbreak hit domestic activity but the start of the country’s vaccination drive should spur confidence and tourism, the finance ministry said on Wednesday.The country has received its first vaccines against Covid-19, with ...