THAILAND NEEDS TECH-SAVVY WORKFORCE TO DRIVE GROWTH SAYS CENTRAL BANK
February 1st, 2017
THE BANK of Thailand is pushing for Thailand to better educate its workforce to cope with digital development, with a lack of research and development (R&D) investment being blamed economic stagnation within this southeast Asian country. The call comes as Thailand’s GDP per capita was just USD5,814.77 (World Bank figures for 2015) when China’s was USD8,027.68. That compares with 1996 when Thailand’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita was USD 4,037, which was 4.3 times that of China that year.
Dilaka Lathapipat, the World Bank’s education unit ...
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