BANGKOK : -- Poll revealed its latest survey showing more than half of leading economists have confidence in the high capable economic team of Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha.
Bangkok Poll, the research arm of
Bangkok University, conducted the opinion poll from Sept 11 to 22 on
confidence in the economic team of the new government and the viability
of its economic policies.
It interviewed 64 economists at 27
leading organizations and found most respondents were confident of the
capabilities of the economic team of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
The poll found that 51.3% of the
surveyed economists had confidence in the knowledge and capabilities of
the team, 19.2% were not quite confident, 3.3% had no confidence and
26.2% were uncertain.
However when they were asked about
their confidence on an individual basis of the cabinet ministers, 73.4%
voiced confidence for Gen Prayuth.
Among the economic ministers, the
top three ministers winning the highest confidence were Deputy Prime
Minister MR Pridiyathorn Devakula (76.6%), Energy Minister Narongchai
Akrasanee (65.6%) and Finance Minister Sommai Phasee (62.5%).
On the viability of overall
economic policies, 44.9% of the economists said they did not believe
they would work while 44.5% thought they could be successful.
The top three policies likely to be
successful are transport development (78.1%), export promotion (54.7%)
and expanded taxation (53.1%), the poll said.
But three policies they viewed
won’t achieve or achieve the least success are agricultural zoning
(62.5%), the improved efficiency, transparency and accountability of
state enterprises (62.5%) and the enhancement of the capability of
small and medium-sized enterprises (53.1%).
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