sentences: the benefits for thai exports from global demand recovery would partly depend on the sector’s competitiveness) and longer-run potential growth rate which may decline, but cannot be quantitatively assessed with precision at present, also depending on private sector adjustments and structural reform policies, (2) greater challenges in assessing economic conditions owing to a wider gap between expenditure-side and production-side national incomes, resulting in an unusual influence of changes in stock and statistical discrepancy on gdp.