New panel seeks to boost private stake
The Finance Ministry has set up a committee tasked with finding measures to attract more private investment, the government's latest move to revitalise the faltering economy.
The committee is chaired by Kanit Saengsuphan, a former executive director of the Fiscal Policy Research Institute Foundation, said Krisada Chinavicharana, director-general of the Fiscal Policy Office.
He said the government wanted to see new private investment in the next couple of years to ward off effects from tepid exports, so it planned to offer additional tax incentives to investors who kick off their investments in Thailand during the period.