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Don't rely on last year's trends for global economy
Oped, Published on 16/01/2024
» Behavioural economists have popularised the term "recency bias" to describe our tendency to be disproportionately influenced by the latest events compared to earlier ones. Could this cognitive phenomenon explain why numerous analysts have a rather optimistic tilt for the world economy in 2024? Or are there really positive trends counterbalancing the obvious and mounting challenges to global growth?
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Fiscal future in govt hands
News, Editorial, Published on 30/03/2020
» As the coronavirus pandemic soars unabated, the Thai economy is expected to suffer its biggest contraction in 23 years.
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Arkhom risks facing a losing battle
Oped, Published on 08/10/2020
» After a month of waiting, Thailand now has a new finance minister -- Arkhom Termpittayapaisith. Thais and the business community have high hopes for the new minister's ability to help stimulate the sagging economy and steer the country's economy out of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Applying sufficiency to macroeconomics, business
News, Prasarn Trairatvorakul, Published on 02/06/2016
» Throughout the history of mankind, numerous events and crises have prompted us to reflect and reevaluate on the way we live our lives, operate our businesses and develop our countries.
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Mixed views about Thais from Singapore's statesman
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/03/2015
» Singapore's late founding father Lee Kuan Yew was a leader who did not mince his words, especially after he stood down as prime minister in 1990.
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Xi's not for turning? Don't be so sure
News, Published on 05/12/2018
» As president-for-life, China's Xi Jinping is neither bound by rules nor limited by rivals. He has upended a careful political balance by concentrating power in his own hands, and overturned a cautious approach to foreign policy, while throwing in jail anyone he views as a threat. China's most dominant leader since Mao Zedong now has 90 days to head off an all-out trade war with the US provoked, in part, by his own mercantilist policies. Can anybody convince him to make a U-turn?
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Anti-Trump op-ed boosts democracy
News, John Lloyd, Published on 10/09/2018
» The good news was well disguised in the anonymous cry of warning against the "amorality" of Donald Trump. A senior administration official, writing as an unnamed columnist in The New York Times, described how he and like-minded colleagues "are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of (the US president's) agenda and his worst inclinations." The message is that democratic habits -- and, crucially, civic decency and responsibility -- can, in step with free journalism, win out over degraded administrations.
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Looking ahead toward Apec 2022
Oped, Natapanu Nopakun, Published on 18/01/2022
» As the new year begins, it is high time to look back at the past year's achievements and, at the same time, to look ahead towards the next. If the Covid-19 pandemic which began in late 2019 and early 2020 took the world by surprise, and 2021 proved to be another year of daunting challenges, 2022 could see countries around the world continue to struggle, trying to open despite the emergence of new variants of the coronavirus, like the current Omicron.
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A realistic vision for resolving the climate crisis
Oped, Published on 07/11/2018
» According to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's main scientific authority on global warming, keeping global temperatures from rising more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels is a feasible goal. The IPCC's stance represents a move in the direction of the kind of "radical realism" that many civil-society actors have long advocated.
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Merkel sets direction for Europe
News, John Lloyd, Published on 11/09/2017
» Germans will choose a government on Sept 24, and that government is likely to be headed, for the twelfth year running, by Angela Merkel. The uncharismatic 63-year-old from East Germany may not have captured her fellow Germans' hearts, but she has appealed so strongly to their rational selves that polls suggest they find no reason to replace her.
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