Worker skills, education ‘key to cutting inequality’

Thailand can reduce income inequality by boosting workers’ skills and improving education, according to the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).

Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the NESDC, yesterday said poverty and inequality are key factors holding up the economic and social development of the country.

He said the NESDC has revised its indicators and approach to analysis to find a way to help drive policy forward, such as improving the poverty graph every 10 years and making use of tax data to analyse inequality, so the government…