New Mandala

 
From The Nation:
Newly-appointed economic envoy Somkid Jatusripitak vowed Thursday to explain sufficiency economy principle to foreign countries.
Somkid, a former finance minister and deputy prime minister for the Thaksin government was Thursday appointed chairman of a foreign economic relations committee, Deputy PM’s Secretary-General Weerachai Weeramethikul announced… Somkid said after his appointment that he would work to [...]

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Visiting northern Thailand last month I was interested to catch up on a local project that had been implemented under the Thaksin government’s poverty alleviation program. The project involved paying a group of “poor” villagers (though from my observations the poorest villagers did not participate – they were probably too busy chasing wage labour) 100 [...]

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