Thailand: Selected Issues

March 3, 2000

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Thailand: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed September 27, 2024

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; credit growth before and after the crisis; public debt dynamics in the aftermath of the crisis; export performance before and after the crisis; and an analysis of the role of fiscal policy that led to the 1997 crisis. The report also highlights weaknesses that were threatening the sustainability of Thailand's economic growth.

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

Publication Details

Pages:

76
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2000/021
Stock No:

1THAEA0022000
ISBN:

9781451836813
ISSN:

1934-7685

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