TDRI urges junta to replace subsidy system with welfare system
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THE NATIONAL COUNCIL for Peace and Order should replace the country's subsidy system, including the rice-pledging policy, with a welfare system that would cover all people and the poor in particular, Nipon Poapong-sakorn, a distinguished fellow at the Tha
An administrative system should be set up to run the social welfare programme. The value-added-tax could be raised from 7 per cent to 10 per cent to finance it, he said.
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