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Thailand's central bank optimistic about economic recovery 

Thailand's economic recovery is not likely to be impacted by the global economic fluctuations, Bank of Thailand (BOT) Governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput said on October 4.
Bangkok (VNA) - Thailand's central bank optimistic about economic recovery 's economic recovery is not likely to be impacted by the global economic fluctuations, Bank of Thailand (BOT) Governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput said on October 4.

Addressing a business seminar the same day, he said that the Thai economy is expected to grow 3.3% year on year in 2022 and 3.8% in 2023, boosted by improving consumption and the tourism sector.

The BOT expects the number of foreign tourist arrivals to reach 9.5 million this year and 21 million next year, compared with more than 400,000 in 2021 and a peak of nearly 40 million in 2019 before the pandemic.

Thailand welcomed 4.38 million tourists in the first eight months of the year, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.

Sethaput said the headline inflation growth would stand at 6.3% this year, before declining to 2.6% in 2023, within the annual target range of 1-3%.

Fueled by surging energy and food prices, Thailand's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 7.86% year on year in August, the highest level since July 2008, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce./.

  
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