태국의 경제성장 과정과 특징

Thailand has developed with achievement of rapid economic growth rates by virtue of the export-led economic development strategy since late 1960s. Thai economy seemed to be another rising tiger in East Asia with the help of consistent expansion of the world economy and inflow of foreign direct investment from Japan and other East Asian countries for last couple of decades. But suddenly Thailand got into big economic crisis faced with a blow of foreign exchange crisis in July 1997. This study argues the fallacy of semi-developmental state of Thailand to deal properly with the change of state-market relations over 30 years. This article explains the characteristics of changing internal and external economic structures along with the adoption of development strategy and the change of state-market relations of Thailand. In conclusion, even if Thailand showed some typical state autonomy and capacity like other East Asian developmental states, Thai state failed to guide the market with effective and systematic policies and eventually could not prevent the emergence of the 1997 economic crisis.