2016 Thailand Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights

The World Bank Group conducted face-to-face interviews with top managers and business owners of 1,000 enterprises in Thailand from November 2015 through June 2016. The Enterprise Survey (ES) sample is representative of Thailand’s formal private sec...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
Format: Technical Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/328711505114093339/Enterprise-surveys-Thailand-country-highlights-2016
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spelling okr-10986-284742021-05-25T09:55:41Z 2016 Thailand Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights World Bank Group SALES GROWTH EMPLOYMENT GROWTH REGULATION FEMALE LABOR FORCE WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS ELECTRICITY TRADE POLITICAL INSTABILITY INVESTMENT CLIMATE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT The World Bank Group conducted face-to-face interviews with top managers and business owners of 1,000 enterprises in Thailand from November 2015 through June 2016. The Enterprise Survey (ES) sample is representative of Thailand’s formal private sector. The ES covers several aspects of business environment along with measures of firm performance. The main highlights from the survey are: Thai firms underperform comparator economies in both annual sales and employment growth; female participation in ownership or management of the private sector is higher than in comparator economies; firms’ engagement in trade is lower in Thailand than in comparator economies; and political instability is most frequently cited as the biggest obstacle to private firms’ operations. 2017-10-05T22:08:33Z 2017-10-05T22:08:33Z 2017-06-26 Technical Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/328711505114093339/Enterprise-surveys-Thailand-country-highlights-2016 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28474 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Thailand
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topic SALES GROWTH
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH
REGULATION
FEMALE LABOR FORCE
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
ELECTRICITY
TRADE
POLITICAL INSTABILITY
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
spellingShingle SALES GROWTH
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH
REGULATION
FEMALE LABOR FORCE
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
ELECTRICITY
TRADE
POLITICAL INSTABILITY
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
World Bank Group
2016 Thailand Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights
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Thailand
description The World Bank Group conducted face-to-face interviews with top managers and business owners of 1,000 enterprises in Thailand from November 2015 through June 2016. The Enterprise Survey (ES) sample is representative of Thailand’s formal private sector. The ES covers several aspects of business environment along with measures of firm performance. The main highlights from the survey are: Thai firms underperform comparator economies in both annual sales and employment growth; female participation in ownership or management of the private sector is higher than in comparator economies; firms’ engagement in trade is lower in Thailand than in comparator economies; and political instability is most frequently cited as the biggest obstacle to private firms’ operations.
format Technical Paper
author World Bank Group
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title 2016 Thailand Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights
title_short 2016 Thailand Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights
title_full 2016 Thailand Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights
title_fullStr 2016 Thailand Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights
title_full_unstemmed 2016 Thailand Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights
title_sort 2016 thailand enterprise survey : country highlights
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/328711505114093339/Enterprise-surveys-Thailand-country-highlights-2016
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28474
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