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Don’t turn off the tap just yet

People queue to collect 5,000-baht cash handouts at a Krungthai Bank branch under the “Nobody will be left behind” campaign in 2020. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

Whether the government should bid farewell to economic stimulus measures became a source of debate after the topic was raised by an economist at Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).

As Thailand relaxes more measures aimed at tackling Covid-19, which is set to be reclassified as an endemic disease in July, the government should start shifting away from economic cures and the stimulus mode that has been in place for two years, moving towards a serious push for economic restoration, according to Nonarit Bisonyabut, a research fellow at TDRI.

He said the state’s…

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