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Thai factory output, visitor arrivals up but road ahead is slow
Published Mon, Mar 30, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Bangkok
A 22-month streak of declining Thai factory output has ended, lifting hopes for an economic recovery, but a member of the country's monetary policy committee warned that the traditional growth drivers are "not really working anymore".
On Monday, the government reported two encouraging pieces of data about the economy, which has long struggled to gain some traction and grew only 0.7 per cent last year.
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