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Thailand Has Attracted the Investment. Can It Power It?
The country's data centre pipeline is forcing a harder question about electricity, water and infrastructure: how quickly can physical capacity catch up with capital already seeking to enter?
Thailand’s Economy to 2037: Making the Next Growth Model
Thailand increasingly knows what it is trying to build: new merit after the old. The harder question is whether the machinery to deliver it is being built alongside it.
After THACCA: who builds Thailand's creative economy now?
The THACCA bill has stalled, but the institutional problem it was designed to solve has not. Thailand now has to decide whether its creative economy needs a new agency, or a better way of making the agencies it already has work together.
Thailand's Economy Since 1991: Where the Merit Went
The 1997 crisis is the part of Thailand's story everyone tells. The quieter story behind 2026 is what happened to investment after the boom ended, and why Thailand has struggled to convert capital and global integration into another sustained period of productivity growth.
Thailand's OECD Accession: Why the 2028 Deadline is not the Real Test
Thailand has built the machinery for OECD accession and set 2028 as its target. But the OECD has agreed no date. MCG examines the reforms that will determine the timetable, and why the real test lies in Thailand's ability to turn administrative mobilisation into politically difficult decisions.
Thailand's Fever Test: What the Energy Crisis Reveals About the Limits of Political Stability
Thailand's new government inherited a structural illness. The Iran conflict did not create the crisis — it ran the diagnostic test. Six weeks into the Bhumjaithai mandate, a 35-billion-baht Oil Fund deficit, a minister who admitted on air that GPS tracking of oil trucks was never operational, and farmers in the ruling party's own heartland saying they cannot take it anymore. MCG examines what the energy crisis of March 2026 reveals about the structural limits of Thailand's political stability — and what it means for investors in the region.
Thailand 2026: Election and Constitutional Referendum Explained
On 8 February 2026, Thailand will hold a general election alongside a nationwide constitutional referendum. This analysis explains what is at stake, why the 2017 Constitution is being challenged, and how the outcome could shape political stability, governance, and regulatory risk through 2028.
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