Poor farmers enjoyed the government’s debt moratorium program. Rural villagers had more opportunities to export their products and improve their standards of living through local enterprise encouragement measures. Patients received more quality treatment from the cheap public health subsidization scheme. The community development fund was handed out to the rural villages in every corner of the Kingdom of Thailand. The TRT government employed both capitalism to empower the business sector and socialism to strengthen the grass-roots economy under their “dual track” economic development plan (Phongpaichit, 2004). Thailand under Thaksin was able to remove the IMF’s debtor status before the initial deadline for the last payment in 2003.