Thailand’s Economic Dilemmas in Post-Pandemic Asia / / Richard Yarrow.
While Thailand’s health system has fared relatively well through the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s economy faced significant strains and likely a harsher downturn than other economies in Southeast Asia. In particular, the services sector—heavily reliant on international tourism—suffered, and debt...
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