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An Enduring Lesson from Thailand\'s Economic Performance

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title An Enduring Lesson from Thailand\'s Economic Performance
 
Creator Nurul Amin, A.T.M.
 
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Description Although the technical details in maintaining macroeconomics stability, rapid expansion of manufacturing exports, attracting foreign investment, promoting market dynamism, and private-public sector cooperation bear many insights for possible emulation by other developing countries seeking economic growth, the paper argues that the most enduring lesson from Thailand economic success lies in the arena of public economy that allowed a typical, tropical underdeveloped country with high population growth, huge underemployment, subsistence agricultural economy, widespread illiteracy, pervasive corruption, perennial political instability, repeated coups and counter coups, authoritarian and dictatorial rule, intermittent and transitory period of failed democratic polity and even armed insurgency-finally to leave all this behind. The political economy lessons that a technocratic management of an economy for maintaining a continuity of economic policy through swings of political pendulum of democratic strivings and military-autocratic reigns and an early emergence of destructive political protests and dissents, are essential for economic growth.
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
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Date 2010-09-22
 
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/108
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 33, No 1 (1996)
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/108/726
 
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