Price should be based on market, says body The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) has called on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and concerned agencies to raise the price of natural gas supplied to the petrochemical sector to the same level as other sectors to increase energy efficiency. The price of natural […]
Private, public sectors represented on new junta-led body to boost efficiency The junta’s new “superboard” overseeing all state enterprises has the stated aim of getting them all moving in the same direction towards strength and efficiency. The superboard was set up on Thursday by the military’s ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and […]
Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) A TDRI seminar concluded that the Thai society has been awakened and provided with plenty of scattered corruption information which needs systematic assessments and analyses while empirical data has not been used in any strategy to counter corruption. A center was proposed to annually collect data, quantitatively and qualitatively, from […]
Darana Chudasri Foreign direct investments into Thailand still require government support measures for long-term competitiveness, especially in the service and agricultural sectors, says Deunden Nikomborirak, research director for Thailand Development Research Institute. Ms Deunden said Thailand is Asean’s second-largest economy, contributing 20% of Asean’s gross domestic product (GDP). However, the FDI into Thailand was only […]
Deunden Nikomborirak, Peeradej Tanruangporn One core aspect of the Thai state that annoys people of all political stripes is its secrecy. Despite the promulgation of the Official Information Act in 1997 aimed at promoting the “right to know”, state organisations in Thailand remain riddled with secrecy. A prime example is the rice-pledging scheme. Most developed countries […]
Nanchanok Wongsamuth Calls for reform of public records law Access to information should be the top priority for Thailand to undergo a reform to tackle corruption, said a researcher at a Bangkok seminar. Deunden Nikomborirak, the research director for economic governance at the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), said the public should use information as […]
Erich Parpart and Pichaya Changsorn Lack of trust, poor enforcement highlighted Public sector corruption was a major problem last year, with the “Corruption Situation Index” (CSI) in December showing that 75 per cent of those polled saying it had got worse. That was up 12 percentage points from 2012. This trend needs to be rectified immediately […]
Erich Parpart Amid the political turmoil and demands for the country’s reform, the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), economists and academics have proposed efficiency, transparency, and good governance in every sector of the country. The aim is to stamp out the country’s chronic economic and political problems in all aspects. In each of the past […]
An appointed government proposed by protesters as a “people’s council” could worsen Thailand’s chronic corruption problems, economists have warned. Prof Pasuk Phongpaichit of Chulalongkorn University’s economics faculty yesterday said it is not clear who would appoint the members, and this would allow for corruption. “A small group of people might not come from a fully […]
Deunden Nikomborirak Since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the Thai state-owned specialised financial institutions (SFIs) have gone through a remarkable expansion. Their share of outstanding loans (consumer and business borrowing) jumped from a mere 13% in 1998, to a whopping 33% in the second quarter of 2013. In 2012, half of the total value of loans […]
Corruption is among the biggest barriers to Thailand’s economic progress, says expert Prof Robert Klitgaard, who urged businesses and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to work with the government to monitor key projects. Among obstacles to investment and fighting poverty, bad government and corruption are Thailand’s major problems. The World Economic Forum’s 2013-14 global competitiveness report said […]
Deunden Nikomborirak, PhD Thailand Development Research Institute Recently I watched the popular stand-up comedy show by ‘Nose’ Udom Taepanich. Khun Nose said that “we, the Thai people, often think that we are better off than our neighbours. However, people in Lao PDR are already using 4G services for a long time. On the other hand, […]
