{"id":1022,"date":"2021-11-03T12:25:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2021-11-05T07:48:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T07:48:13","slug":"thai-economy-may-grow-5-6-next-year-after-weak-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/2021\/11\/03\/thai-economy-may-grow-5-6-next-year-after-weak-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai economy may grow 5-6% next year after weak growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Coins.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Coins.jpg 800w, https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Coins-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Coins-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>rawpixel pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BANGKOK, Nov 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Thailand&#8217;s economic growth will be subdued this year due to the impacts of the pandemic, but it could reach 5-6% in 2022 if there are no fresh outbreaks, its deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.<br><br>The Southeast Asian nation&#8217;s most prolonged epidemic has eased, leading to a relaxing of restrictions and reopening to more foreign visitors to reboot the key tourism sector. read more<br><br>The country is past the worst, while fiscal and financial stability remains sound, Supattanapong Punmeechaow, who is in charge of economic matters, told a business seminar.<br><br>Thailand is moving to its goal of a 70% vaccination rate by year-end, while sustaining manufacturing to support exports, a key driver of growth, he said.<br><br><br>The economy will also get support from 600 billion baht ($18 billion) of investment pledges expected this year, and a government scheme to attract 1 million long-term foreigners over the next five years with spending of 1 trillion baht, he said.<br><br>In 2019, nearly 40 million foreign tourists spent 1.91 trillion baht ($57 billion). The finance ministry predicts just 180,000 foreign arrivals this year, with 100,000 in the fourth quarter.<br><br><br>On Wednesday, a joint business group of industry, banking and commerce raised its 2021 economic growth outlook to 0.5% to 1.5% from zero to 1% growth due to the reopening.<br><br>&#8220;The economy started to recover but not fast&#8230; importantly, positive momentum must continue, no on-and off closures,&#8221; group chairman Sanan Angubolkul, also head of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, told a briefing. He earlier predicted 600,000 foreign arrivals in November and December.<br><br>Source: Orathai Sriring and Kitiphong Thaichareon, Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rawpixel pic BANGKOK, Nov 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Thailand&#8217;s economic growth will be subdued this year due to the impacts of the pandemic, but it could reach 5-6% in 2022 if there are no fresh outbreaks, its deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.The Southeast Asian nation&#8217;s most prolonged epidemic has eased, leading to a relaxing of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-business","category-tie-world","tag-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}