Ask economists at the World Bank ( Which stopped lending to Thailand long ago because the country had become too rich ) and the answer is different. This week, in the bank’s luxe 30th-floor offices overlooking Bangkok, they told reporters that Thailand would remain the slowest-growing economy in South-East Asia till 2016(see page 153,lf, of their report). They expect the economies of Thailand’s neighbours to keep chugging along nicely: Myanmar at 8%-plus, Cambodia and Laos at 7%, and Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam all between 5% and 6%.