The World Bank, in a report titled Building Thailand's Future released at the 2026 Bangkok Business Summit, says Thailand could become a high‑income, innovation‑driven economy by 2037 if it accelerates productivity via technology adoption, innovation, skills upgrading, higher domestic value‑added, more competitive firms and efficient urban planning. The report estimates these reforms could support average annual per‑capita GDP growth of 5.4% to reach high‑income status by 2037 and urges policyma

Japan's finance minister Katayama said he has reiterated to global leaders that Japan's goal is to ensure fiscal sustainability.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the AI SME Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026–2028). It urges localities to leverage industry strengths to cultivate concentrated, high‑quality AI SME clusters. Qualified areas, including national AI innovation application pilot zones, are encouraged to build coordinated compute supply‑demand platforms, inclusive compute centres and other infrastructure/services to promote wider sharing of compute and data resources. The plan directs national high‑tech industrial development zones to prioritise new AI tracks and step up cultivation and support for SMEs.