THAILAND: THAKSIN IS KEEPING PRE ELECTIONS PROMISES.(Thaksin Shinawatra)(Brief Article)

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: July 28, 2002 | Copyright information

According to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra came to power on the promise that a more business-minded government would get Thailand's economic wheels turning again. Popular expectations ran high that the former telecoms tycoon would translate his personal business success into a new age of national prosperity. Eighteen months later, Thaksin is delivering those economic promises. Business and consumer confidence is growing. The frozen propert...

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