The Twelfth National Economic and Social Plan focuses on enhancing international regulatory and institutional linkages at the implementation level. It emphasizes the use of physical infrastructure linkages as a basis for the development of areas, economies and communities along transborder economic corridors.
Development under the Twelfth Plan constitutes the first five years of the implementation of the 20-year National Strategy (2017-2036), which is Thailand’s development master plan for steering the country towards security, prosperity, and sustainability. It identifies the targets for Thailand’s development over the next 20 years, as well as strategic issues and the main directions to be followed to achieve these targets. The Twelfth Plan in turn will be a major tool to energize the implementation of the National Strategy, alongside with other mechanisms and supporting instruments. So, the Twelfth Plan sets clear economic, social and environmental targets that have to be achieved within the next 5 years.
However, in order to set the targets for the five years of the Twelfth Plan, the accumulated objectives of the next 3 Plans (the Thirteenth Plan, the Fourteenth Plan, and the Fifteenth Plan) have also to be considered, particularly the Fifteenth Plan (2032-2036), which will cover the last five-year period of the 20-year National Strategy (2017-2036). A core objective of the National Strategy is for Thailand to be a developed country by the end of its implementation period.