Siam Commercial Bank’s Economic Intelligence Centre (IEC) has revised upwards its 2021 Thai GDP growth forecast from 2.2 per cent to 2.6 per cent. The IEC cited faster-than-expected recovery of Thai exports, which returned to pre-Covid levels in January and February. It revised upwards its export growth forecast for 2021 from 4 per cent to 6.4 per cent.

The incoming government should come up with a Bt20-billion package of economic stimulus measures in the second half of 2019, according to Siam Commercial Bank's Economic Intelligence Centre (EIC).