Ambitious plans, but Thailand's new economic czar is unfazed
Ambitious plans, but Thailand's new economic czar is unfazed
- The government wants to cut energy subsidies, levy property and inheritance taxes, integrate the digital economy and push Thai ventures abroad. It is also aiming to raise the proportion of the national budget spent on investment, says MR Pridiyathorn Devakula, the deputy prime minister overseeing economic policy. Few in the military-dominated cabinet sound as confident as he.
- The government wants to cut energy subsidies, levy property and inheritance taxes, integrate the digital economy and push Thai ventures abroad. It is also aiming to raise the proportion of the national budget spent on investment, says MR Pridiyathorn Devakula, the deputy prime minister overseeing economic policy. Few in the military-dominated cabinet sound as confident as he.
