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The prime minister's new challenge
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/02/2012
» As head of a super committee charged with water resources management and flood prevention, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has accepted a real challenge which will prove against her critics that she is more than just a pretty face with a sense of high fashion.
Cycle of crisis looms over emerging markets
News, Published on 26/01/2012
» Emerging markets have performed amazingly well over the last seven years. In many cases, they have far outperformed the advanced industrialised countries in terms of economic growth, debt-to-GDP ratios, counter-cyclical fiscal policy, and assessments by ratings agencies and financial markets.
Thaksin's shuffle tune
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 23/01/2012
» Let's say the average life expectancy of a cabinet is around six months. By the time Yingluck Shinawatra serves her four-year term, the country will have the Yingluck VIII or IX administration.
Why development aid is never near enough
News, Published on 13/01/2012
» Poverty is not only about not having enough money. It is also about exploitation and oppression, and about armed conflicts and wars that make it impossible to run a business, visit the doctor, or send children to school. In short, poverty is about politics _ and the need to devise political solutions to its underlying causes. And this involves more than providing money.
The implications of Burma's progress
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 13/01/2012
» Watching Burma's ongoing progress towards democratic reforms and political dialogue from afar is like seeing sprinkling rain turning into a light downpour after a long drought over two decades. It is a spectacular and stunning sight thus far, partly because the long drought stirred pent-up demands and grievances for ways forward.