OPINION

Grand plans mean little to the poor

News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/11/2017

» If the government is not suffering from irrational exuberance, then something must have gone amiss. For it's bothersome to see Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak declare there will be no poor people in Thailand next year, only to be met with the scathing response: "Of course, all the poor will have died by then."