Thailand and ADB
In the Spotlight
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Helping Farmers Go Organic in Thailand
Safe, organic food is becoming popular across the Greater Mekong Subregion. A pilot program in Thailand is helping farmers meet the growing demand and leave chemicals behind.
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ADB and Thailand: A Development Partnership toward Inclusive Growth
ADB has supported Thailand’s economic transformation by investing nearly $8 billion over the course of 50 years’ partnership.
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Thailand and ADB: Photos
With its strategic geopolitical position and significance as the second largest economy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Thailand plays a major role in promoting regional cooperation and integration. View the ADB Thailand Flickr album
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Poverty and Nutrition: A Case Study of Rural Households in Thailand and Viet Nam
This paper analyzes the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was especially successful. Despite this success, it is not clear to what extent it has translated into similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people, and especially of children.
Having attained upper-middle-income status in recent times, Thailand aspires to reach higher-income status within the next decade. With its strategic geopolitical position and significance as the second-largest economy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the country plays a major role in promoting regional cooperation and integration.
Since the late 1990s, economic growth has been impeded by global economic shocks, natural disasters, sociopolitical tensions, and relatively low investment. Other challenges to growth have included persistent inequality, environmental degradation, and an aging population. In July 2014, Thailand approved a long-term Infrastructure Development Plan to boost the country’s competitiveness, by improving and expanding its logistics and transport networks.
ADB's country partnership strategy for Thailand provides the flexibility to respond to the country’s needs and priorities through sovereign and nonsovereign support.
Thailand is a member of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It is also part of the Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT–GT) subregional program.
Latest
ADB Invests B1,968M in B. Grimm Power to Develop Renewable Energy in ASEAN
ADB has subscribed to 123 million shares worth $57.7 million of an initial public offering of Thailand’s B. Grimm Power Public Company to develop renewable energy projects in Southeast Asia.
GMS Agriculture Working Group Finalizing Strategy on Agro-Based Value Chains
A senior level working group meeting is finalizing a 5-year strategy for promoting safe and environment-friendly agro-based value chains (2018-2022) for the Greater Mekong subregion.
A 1% increase in international remittances can reduce poverty severity by 16%.
International Remittances and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Asian Developing Countries
Projects in Thailand
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Activities
ADB's 50th Anniversary in Bangkok 
Seminar on Empowering SMEs through Financial Access 
Launch of Financial Literacy Campaign for Youth in Thailand -
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Maternal mortality ratio in Thailand, per 100,000 live births (2015)
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10.5%
Population living below the national poverty line in Thailand (2014)
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0.4%
Average annual population growth rate in Thailand (2011-2016)
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67.46
Population in Thailand, in millions (2016)
