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'Guillotine' regulations to lift economy
Oped, Published on 24/02/2021
» The second wave of Covid-19 in Thailand has proved to be challenging to our economic team. Previously, the government has introduced several relief measures to curb the economic impacts from the pandemic including (1) Monetary policy when BoT cut the policy interest rate and (2) Fiscal policies which are about taxs break and government expenditure stimulus programmes e.g. "The 50-50 co-payment scheme". Despite the relief programme, the Thai economy hasn't yet recovered and even slowed down now those schemes are over.
Time to give child protection a boost
Oped, Published on 12/08/2020
» In the first half of this year, there were numerous reports of violence against children. Many of these cases share a similar pattern -- those responsible for the violence are people close to the child. According to statistics from the 1300 hotline, from October 2018 to September 2019, reports of violence against children and youngsters averaged five cases per day, with three daily cases daily listed as domestic violence. The most common form of domestic violence that children experience is physical violence committed by their own fathers or mothers.