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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:06:44 EST
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- From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
- Subject: TH: NESDB background
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:22:53+0700
- From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>
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- NESDB is a very important govt unit whose duties are to formulate 5-year
- National Plan, currently 7th, starting in 1992. Most govt's policies
- are based on this plan. Apart from this, most important infrastructures
- must get this agency's stamp of approval.
- It is used widely during Anand's govt but ignored a lot during
- Chatichai govt whose ministers are known as buffet cabinet. The minister
- which criticised NESDB a lot during that time was Montri Pongpanich, Social
- Action Party leader, who used to be nicknamed by Government House reporters
- as Mr Mega-project. This minister created a stir during Chatichai govt by
- raising 33 million baht for making merits to various temples in his province,
- Ayutthaya.
- Apart from NESDB, the Bank of Thailand (the central bank) and the TDRI
- (a private economic think tank very similar to Brooking Institute) are also
- noted for their economy's predictions.
- kamol reports.
-