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Next PM urged to focus on innovation to spur Thailand’s development

April 15, 2023

Thailand’s next prime minister must make innovation a priority and find practical ways to promote it in order to lead the country forward, National Innovation Agency executive director Pun-Arj Chairatana said.

Thailand needs greater emphasis on digital skills to become high-income country: TDRI

January 06, 2023

The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) has urged the government and the private sector to place more focus on equipping people with digital knowledge and human soft skills to accelerate the country's transition to a high-income country.

Ways to gear up for an ageing society

MONDAY, MAY 13, 2019

ECONOMIC growth is expected to take a heavy hit due to the rising number of the elderly and the country urgently needs to tackle it by cutting in half the number of military personnel, increasing the number of foreign labourers and employing increased automation in production, Somkiat Tangkitvanich, president of Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), said yesterday.

Economist says not enough being done to narrow income gap

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018

An economist has suggested that political parties pledge if elected to increase the annual budget for social welfare by Bt350 billion in a bid to narrow the gap between rich and poor. Somchai Jitsuchon, research director at the Thailand Development

Experts call for liberalisation in services sector

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018

THE SERVICES industry is the key to Thailand’s future economic growth but to succeed, it will need to liberalise regulations on trade in services, according to experts from the World Bank and the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).

TDRI DIRECTOR BECOMES INDEPENDENT MPC DIRECTOR

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018

The board of the Bank of Thailand has appointed Somchai Jitsuchon, director of Thailand Development Research Institute(TDRI), as an independent director of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), replacing Porametee Vimolsiri who resigned recently from the committee to take up the chairman post of the bank.

Proposed education bill not good enough, says research institute head

FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018

THAILAND’S National Education Bill continues to lack a clear organising principle for much-awaited education reform, Thailand Development Research Institute’s president Somkiat Tangkitvanich said on Thursday.

3m jobs to go if Thailand fails to navigate technology upheavals

MONDAY, MAY 14, 2018

THE country could lose as many as three million jobs over the next 20 years if it is unable to adapt to and use disruptive digital technologies, the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) president, Somkiat Tangkitvanich, warned yesterday.

Should regular taxis be allowed to hike the fare?

FRIDAY, MAY 04, 2018

I approve the suggestion for a Bt5 rise in the minimum taxi fare and a surcharge for traffic delays, as proposed by the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), which found that taxi drivers barely earn the minimum wage.

Hard line urged on operators’ pleas

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 04, 2018

THE government and regulators should hold firm against the requests of two holders of 900MHz spectrum licences for an eased fee payment schedule as a such a concession would benefit only the operators and not the country, Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) president Somkiat Tangkitvanich said.

Prayut must slam brakes on ride-hailing monopoly

THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018

I fully agree with the Thailand Development and Research Institute that the “consolidation of ride-hailing firms in Southeast Asia might increase prices to ‘unaffordable levels’”.

Thailand urged to seek markets amid trade row

TUESDAY, MARCH 06, 2018

THE country should seek out new markets and pursue direct trade negotiations with the United States against the backdrop of heightened fears of a global trade war following protectionist moves by Washington, the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) said.

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