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B2-trillion transport plan goes to cabinet next month
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 18/01/2013
» The government's large-scale plans for transport facilities are nearing parliamentary consideration, just as companies are calling on the government to implement an urgent overhaul of the education system.
Warning on public debt
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 20/12/2012
» The country could save expenditures for stimulus programmes to fund social welfare and enact policies to reduce inequality and raise the skill level of the population, says the World Bank.
Japanese fund gives $1.5m to help the poor access loans
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 31/01/2012
» The Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) received a US$1.5-million grant from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction to strengthen its efforts to create a framework to help low-income earners excluded by the banking system.
Shuffling deck chairs with debt
Spectrum, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 08/01/2012
» The 1997 financial crisis was rooted in speculative excess and financial alchemy through the boom years of the 1990s. During a bubble, money comes fast and easy. And when the bubble bursts, it's those who are last to leave that are saddled with the costs.