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Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members—49 from the region.
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ADB supports projects in developing member countries that create economic and development impact, delivered through both public and private sector operations, advisory services, and knowledge support.
Thailand and ADB
ADB’s new country partnership strategy for Thailand, 2021–2025, provides value-added knowledge and finance solutions through one coordinated channel of engagement.
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In the Spotlight
Working Towards Sustainable Tourism with E-Mobility
Tourism is a very important aspect in Krabi, Thailand, where in the recent years has developed rapidly: their first step towards sustainability is by the use of e-boats in tours.
ASEAN Needs to Focus on Boosting Quality of Life to Build a Resilient and Inclusive Community — New ADB Report
ASEAN members must shift from meeting basic development targets to ramping up efforts to improve quality of life across the region to build a resilient ASEAN and yield a faster recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, says a new ADB report.
Narrowing the Development Gap: Follow-Up Monitor of the ASEAN Framework for Equitable Economic Development
This report uses a broad range of indicators to assess the individual and collective development progress made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Q&A: Narrowing the Development Gap: Follow-Up Monitor of the ASEAN Framework for Equitable Economic Development
A new ADB report finds that the path to recovery has proven uneven and diverse, yielding development gaps among member countries of ASEAN.
Thailand Facts
ADB's Work in Thailand
The downgrading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from a pandemic to an endemic disease since October 2022 has helped Thailand return to normalcy. Stronger domestic demand and a significant increase in international tourist arrivals have contributed to higher growth in 2022.
ADB stands ready to support and collaborate with Thailand to ensure recovery from the health, social, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To date, ADB has committed 240 public sector loans, grants, and technical assistance totaling $7.4 billion to Thailand.
Data: Thailand
Forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.
Development indicators for Thailand, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.
Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects.
ADB Projects in Thailand View all projects
Featured
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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Proposed
- Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization Fund
- ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund
- ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility
- ASEAN Infrastructure Fund
- Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund
- Asian Clean Energy Fund
- Asian Development Fund
- Australian Climate Finance Partnership
- Cities Development Initiative for Asia
- Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility
- Clean Energy Fund
- Climate Change Fund
- Climate Investment Funds
- Financial Sector Development Partnership Fund
- Financial Sector Development Partnership Special Fund
- Global Environment Facility
- Green Climate Fund
- Japan Scholarship Program Fund
- Japan Special Fund
- Leading Asia's Private Infrastructure Fund
What's New
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Narrowing the Development Gap: Follow-Up Monitor of the ASEAN Framework for Equitable Economic Development
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ASEAN Needs to Focus on Boosting Quality of Life to Build a Resilient and Inclusive Community — New ADB Report
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Working Towards Sustainable Tourism with E-Mobility
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Thailand Times: Building of Sustainable Finance Ecosystem in Thailand
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Q&A: Narrowing the Development Gap: Follow-Up Monitor of the ASEAN Framework for Equitable Economic Development
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Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Emerging Asia and Exposure to External Shocks
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Ties That Bind: BIMP-EAGA and IMT-GT Are Vital Building Blocks for ASEAN
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ADB President Calls for Stronger Climate Action at Meetings with Southeast Asian Leaders
Contact: Thailand Resident Mission (TRM)
23rd Floor, The Offices at Central World, 999/9 Rama 1 Road, Wangmai, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday)
Fax +662 263 5301 to 2
The Thailand Resident Mission (TRM) opened on 12 January 2005. The office is located at the Offices at Central World, Pathumwan, Bangkok.
Resident missions serve as ADB's primary development interface in developing member countries. TRM's responsibilities include:
- developing and maintaining a program of cooperation and partnership between Thailand and ADB;
- supporting subregional programs and initiatives in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS); and
- coordinating ADB activities with other resident diplomatic and development partners' missions, the private sector, NGOs and members of civil society, academic institutions, and local think tanks.
To facilitate regional cooperation and integration, ADB has promoted the resident mission in Bangkok as a subregional hub in Southeast Asia given Thailand's strategic geopolitical location.
TRM will be closed on these dates:
- New Year's Day: January 2 (Monday), in lieu of January 1
- Maka Bucha Day: March 6 (Monday)
- Chakri Day: April 6 (Thursday)
- Coronation Day: May 4 (Thursday)
- Wisaka Bucha Day and H.M. Queen Suthida's Birthday: June 5 (Monday)
- H.M. The King's Birthday: July 28 (Friday)
- Asarnha Bucha Day: August 1 (Tuesday)
- Anniversary of the Death of King Bhumibol: October 13 (Friday)
- Chulalongkorn Day: October 23 (Monday)
- Christmas Day: December 25 (Monday)
Last updated: 28 December 2022