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Huge 5-year budget for national reform
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 30/04/2018
» The Budget Bureau has set a five-year budget framework for national reform through fiscal 2023 of more than 700 billion baht, with the biggest slice going to economic reform and water management.
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Apisak cautiously upbeat
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 29/09/2015
» The economy is expected to bound back next year, but the government may need to inject more money into the economic system if the economy remains stubbornly in the doldrums, says Finance Minister Apisak Tantivorawong.
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Rise of the patrician farmer
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 01/12/2014
» People recognise Korn Chatikavanij as a successful investment banker-turned-politician who was once the country's finance minister. Today he has a new role: owner of a non-profit packaged organic rice manufacturing company.
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Growth hinges on inoculation, foreign arrivals, exports
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 25/02/2021
» Domestic virus inoculation, foreign tourist arrivals and export growth are among the key variables determining the revision of GDP growth outlook this year, says the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO).
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Ministry preps B200bn for new relief measure
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/01/2021
» The Finance Ministry is preparing to inject financial aid worth around 200 billion baht to combat deteriorating economic conditions during the prolonged Covid-19 crisis.
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B150bn from future budgets may be used
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 25/05/2020
» The government is set to reallocate 150 billion baht from the 2020 and 2021 fiscal budgets if additional funds for economic and social restoration are needed to blunt the fallout from the pandemic, says the Budget Bureau.
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BAAC aims for coverage of 45.7m rai
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 29/04/2020
» The state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) aims for up to 45.7 million rai of rice farmland to be covered by crop insurance for the 2020 season, a high-ranking BAAC official says.
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BAAC to revise loan goal as farm sector stagnant
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 07/04/2020
» The state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) is poised to revise its new lending target of 101 billion baht for this financial year, starting from April 1, because of knock-on effects from the Covid-19 outbreak on the farming sector.
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FPO: Pandemic hits hard
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 31/03/2020
» The coronavirus pandemic took an obvious toll on domestic investment and the tourism sector in February, but consumption remained resilient, according to a senior official at the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO).
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Finance Ministry earmarks B100bn for tourism
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 24/02/2020
» The Finance Ministry is preparing to offer 100 billion baht in soft loans as a lifeline to coronavirus-ravaged tourism operators as part of new relief measures that will seek the cabinet's approval by early March.
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