Business Groups and the Thailand Economy: Escaping the Middle-Income Trap
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Theory and issues -- 1 Catch-up industrialization theory -- 1.1 Advantages of backwardness and technological leap -- 1.2 Flying-geese pattern and limitations -- 1.3 Catch-up theory revisited and technological creep -- 1.4 Unravelling structural change challenges -- 2 Middle-income trap -- 2.1 Definition of middle-income trap -- 2.2 From East Asian miracle to innovative East Asia -- 2.3 When was Thailand caught in the middle-income trap? -- 2.4 Catching-up problems -- 2.5 Comparing China, Malaysia, and Thailand -- 3 Developmental states and business groups -- 3.1 Developmental state political economy -- 3.2 Latecomer nation domestic business groups theory -- 3.3 Four types of Thai family business groups -- 3.4 Theory of management critical points -- 4 Dependency theory and multinational corporations -- 4.1 Dependency theory -- 4.2 MNCs and human capital investment -- 4.3 BOI and target industries -- 4.4 Exploitation of foreign direct investment -- Part II Policies toward innovation-driven growth -- 5 Upper-middle-income development model -- 5.1 The 1960s and 1970s import substitution industrialization -- 5.2 The 1980s and 1990s export-oriented industrialization of and the Asian financial crisis -- 5.3 Economic performance of Thailand -- 5.4 End of the low-cost advantage era -- 5.5 Low R& -- D activity levels -- 6 High-income development model -- 6.1 The 2000s-2010s economic revitalization and ASEAN Economic Community -- 6.2 The 2020s economic rearrangement to identify a high-income nation model -- 6.3 From creative economy to new S-curves -- 7 EEC plan and foreign investors -- 7.1 Eastern Economic Corridor Plan -- 7.2 Belt Road Initiative of China.