Word: pridiyathorn
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...country's largely Muslim south has escalated. The CNS-appointed government spooked investors by briefly unveiling capital controls and proposing limits on foreign businesses in Thailand. At the same time, it has been promoting a poorly understood economic model called the "sufficiency theory." (Last week, Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula quit his post, citing divisions within the government on economic policy.) Nor has any firm date been set for Thailand's next elections, an indication of whether democracy will return to the country. And though alleged corruption by Thaksin was one of the reasons the junta gave for moving tanks onto...
...creates near-term uncertainty, no question," says emerging-markets expert Marc Faber, publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. "Having said that, I don't think this will have a huge impact on the financial and manufacturing sector." In a reassuring move, the new administration tapped central-bank governor Pridiyathorn Devakula, a respected technocrat who helped extricate Thailand from the 1997 Asian financial crisis, as a top economic advisor. Pridiyathorn spent late last week trying to convince overseas investors that Thailand wouldn't retreat from the global economy or pursue a protectionist agenda. And the health of Thailand's economy...
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