Expand welfare policies to boost economy, experts say

Wage pledges can wait until next year

The government should boost the country’s short-term economic growth by expanding state welfare policies to reduce inequalities in society, academics said at a seminar organised by the Thai Journalists’ Association yesterday.

Nonarit Bisonyabut, a senior academic with the Thailand Development Research Institute, yesterday said the Srettha Thavisin administration will face tough challenges as it attempts to reboot the economy following the Covid-19 pandemic.

He urged the government…