Thailand Manufacturing Firm Productivity Report

Thailand is an enduring development success story. Between the late 1960s and mid-1990s, strong and sustained economic growth propelled the country from low-income to upper-middle-income status. To achieve high-income status by 2037, the authoritie...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Bangkok 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/497151606302306312/Thailand-Manufacturing-Firm-Productivity-Report
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spelling okr-10986-348822021-06-14T09:56:52Z Thailand Manufacturing Firm Productivity Report World Bank GROWTH DYNAMICS GROWTH DRIVERS PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH CAPITAL ACCUMULATION HUMAN CAPITAL STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION MANUFACTURING FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMPETITIVENESS COMPETITION POLICY LTGM LONG-TERM GROWTH MODEL Thailand is an enduring development success story. Between the late 1960s and mid-1990s, strong and sustained economic growth propelled the country from low-income to upper-middle-income status. To achieve high-income status by 2037, the authorities will need to draw on the experiences of other upper-middle-income countries that have successfully completed the transition, as well as those that continue to struggle. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has severely impacted growth in Thailand, with the economy expected to contract in 2020 amid heightened uncertainty surrounding the path of the pandemic. This report focuses on the manufacturing sector builds on a framework that emphasizes the microeconomic and macroeconomic linkages of the sources of productivity growth. In line with this framework, Chapter 1 begins with an overview of Thailand’s productivity dynamics at the macroeconomic level and identifies the causes of its slowing GDP growth rate.7 Chapter 2 analyzes the characteristics of Thai manufacturing firms and sub-sector productivity dynamics, revealing the drivers of firm productivity and distinguishing the relative contributions of within-firm effects, between-firm effects, and market dynamism. Chapter 3 evaluates the impact of competition on firm productivity by comparing market entry and exit indicators with price markups. Chapter 4 concludes with a set of policy recommendations designed to boost firm productivity in Thailand’s manufacturing sector. 2020-12-07T17:01:58Z 2020-12-07T17:01:58Z 2020-06-17 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/497151606302306312/Thailand-Manufacturing-Firm-Productivity-Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34882 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Bangkok Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: PSD, Privatization and Industrial Policy East Asia and Pacific Thailand
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topic GROWTH DYNAMICS
GROWTH DRIVERS
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
MANUFACTURING
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
COMPETITIVENESS
COMPETITION POLICY
LTGM
LONG-TERM GROWTH MODEL
spellingShingle GROWTH DYNAMICS
GROWTH DRIVERS
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
MANUFACTURING
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
COMPETITIVENESS
COMPETITION POLICY
LTGM
LONG-TERM GROWTH MODEL
World Bank
Thailand Manufacturing Firm Productivity Report
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Thailand
description Thailand is an enduring development success story. Between the late 1960s and mid-1990s, strong and sustained economic growth propelled the country from low-income to upper-middle-income status. To achieve high-income status by 2037, the authorities will need to draw on the experiences of other upper-middle-income countries that have successfully completed the transition, as well as those that continue to struggle. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has severely impacted growth in Thailand, with the economy expected to contract in 2020 amid heightened uncertainty surrounding the path of the pandemic. This report focuses on the manufacturing sector builds on a framework that emphasizes the microeconomic and macroeconomic linkages of the sources of productivity growth. In line with this framework, Chapter 1 begins with an overview of Thailand’s productivity dynamics at the macroeconomic level and identifies the causes of its slowing GDP growth rate.7 Chapter 2 analyzes the characteristics of Thai manufacturing firms and sub-sector productivity dynamics, revealing the drivers of firm productivity and distinguishing the relative contributions of within-firm effects, between-firm effects, and market dynamism. Chapter 3 evaluates the impact of competition on firm productivity by comparing market entry and exit indicators with price markups. Chapter 4 concludes with a set of policy recommendations designed to boost firm productivity in Thailand’s manufacturing sector.
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title Thailand Manufacturing Firm Productivity Report
title_short Thailand Manufacturing Firm Productivity Report
title_full Thailand Manufacturing Firm Productivity Report
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publisher World Bank, Bangkok
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