Thailand’s economic growth has been sluggish, with real GDP growth lagging behind its regional peers. To effectively identify growth opportunities, enhance the country’s competitiveness, and ensure sustainable economic development, it is essential to develop a comprehensive understanding of several key areas. These include patterns in employment and production structures across sectors, trends in productivity and resource allocation, their ongoing transformation, and the roles of institutions, local and international demand, evolving trade, stricter environmental standards, and other public policies on these trends.

1. Estimating Thailand’s potential growth: which industries could serve as new growth engines, and what policy frameworks are needed to support them?
2. Evaluating the historical impacts of Thailand’s industrial policies: what lessons can be drawn, and what are the implications for future policy design?
3. Identifying barriers to high value-added job creation: what structural or institutional reforms are required to support sustainable long-term growth?
4. Evaluating the impacts of environmental regulations and trade policies on domestic firms’ behavior and competitiveness.