{"id":7989,"date":"2021-06-23T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T02:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2021-06-23T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T02:14:38","slug":"thailand-moves-up-one-spot-in-the-imd-world-competitiveness-ranking-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/en\/7989\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand moves up one spot in the IMD World Competitiveness Ranking 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419588.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419588.jpg 989w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419588-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419588-768x425.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-11.png\" alt=\"Chart\n\nDescription automatically generated\" class=\"wp-image-7990 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-11.png 696w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-11-300x172.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/400;\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;IMD World Competitiveness Ranking 2021&nbsp;recently&nbsp;placed&nbsp;Thailand in the 28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;position among 64 economies, one spot up from the previous year. The latest report &#8211; released by&nbsp;the International Institute for Management Development (IMD)&nbsp;\u2013 put Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark in the top three rankings.&nbsp;The ranking&nbsp;benchmarks the&nbsp;country\u2019s&nbsp;performance based on a number of criteria, including scientific infrastructure and education.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419591.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419591.jpg 989w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419591-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419591-768x412.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of scientific infrastructure competitiveness, Thailand\u00a0moved up one sport to\u00a038th, reflecting the country\u2019s commitment to scientific development.\u00a0The latest survey showed that Thailand\u2019s total R&amp;D expenditure as a percentage of GDP increased from 1.11% to 1.14%.\u00a0Major contribution\u00a0came\u00a0from the private sector\u00a0that jumped from 4.426 to 4.807 billion USD, demonstrating the\u00a0growing enterprise innovation.\u00a0Scientific publication also saw an increase of more than 1,000\u00a0research\u00a0papers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While&nbsp;Thailand\u2019s education competitiveness ranking&nbsp;fell&nbsp;one spot to 56th, there was improvement&nbsp;made&nbsp;in some criteria such as English proficiency, university education meeting the needs of a competitive economy, university education index, adult illiteracy rate and language skills meeting the needs of enterprises.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;IMD World Competitiveness Ranking 2021&nbsp;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419590.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/author\/adminsti\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S__68419590.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7995,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions\/7995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}