In Thailand under Thaksin, a similar kind of inattention to appropriate data seemed to
have occurred again, this time on the fiscal side. The Thaksin government often claimed that
the fiscal position of the public sector was very healthy. It cited the fact that the budget was
never much in deficit and the ratio of public sector debt to GDP had declined from 57% at the
end of fiscal year 2000 (September 2000) to only around 46% at the end of fiscal year 2005
(September 2005).