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    Thailand’s Economic Integration with Neighboring Countries and Possible Connectivity with South Asia

    Chirathivat, Suthiphand; Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun | April 2015
    Abstract
    Thailand’s increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub is due mainly to recent changes in its economic structure, namely, the lack of operational workers, rises in wages, and increases in outward foreign direct investment (FDI), together with a change of regional policies in Southeast Asia. As a result, improvements in physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and financing infrastructure play an important role within an ongoing Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) framework. Extending connectivity to South Asia could also complement the current promotion of regional trade and regional production networks. This paper reviews the current stages of 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 Asia. However, Thailand’s political instability impedes the progress and implementation of such projects. The paper also examines the current financing mechanism of Thailand’s infrastructure projects that relies heavily on public spending. The authors propose strategies to promote Thailand’s physical infrastructure, trade facilitation, and energy cooperation with the mainland countries of Southeast Asia and South Asia.
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    Chirathivat, Suthiphand; Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun. 2015. Thailand’s Economic Integration with Neighboring Countries and Possible Connectivity with South Asia. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9638.
    Keywords
    Regionalism
    Regional Economy
    Regional Trading Arrangements
    Regional Trade Integration
    Regional Economic Integration
    Regional Cooperation
    Interregional Cooperation
    Trade Disputes
    Trade Barriers
    Free Trade
    Trade
    Trade Agreements
    Intraregional Trade
    Government Policy
    Regional Organization
    Regional Plans
    Economic integration
    Regional Development Bank
    Preferential tariffs
    International negotiation
    Protectionist measures
    Access to markets
    Economic agreements
    International trade law
    Regional integration
    Trade relations
    Exports
    Economic integration
    Distribution
    Economic integration
    Development Bank
    Trade policy
    Small Business
    Regional economics
    Regional planning
    Regional disparities
    Interregionalism
    Regional economic disparities
    Regional economic blocs
    Industrial arbitration
    Euro
    Inflation
    Business
    Finance
    Free trade
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    Chirathivat, Suthiphand
    Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun
    Theme
    Regional
    Trade

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