Subject: Pay rise! Pay rise!

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 91 18:29:15 PST

This is for you Ka-rad-cha-karn (civil servants) studying abroad.

   Than-set-tha-kit (a leading weekly Thai business newspaper) quotes an
   unidentified source at Finance Ministry that salary for civil servants
   will be shifted from List B (Bun-she-kor(4)) to List C (Bun-she-khor(0))
   in the next fiscal year (October 1991). Pay rise is Finance Minister's
   attempt to prevent (or slow down) braindrain problem in the public sector.

   This will cost the government 19 billion Baht more each year. Finance
   Ministry does not anticipate budgetary problem owing to high reserve that
   the country has earned during the past years.

   Some industry experts express concerns about inflation. (Coincidentally,
   minimum wage will be raised in April.) Source at Finance Ministry said
   other monatary/fiscal policies as well as other measures (like reducing
   oil prices, lower interest rates, etc.) would take care of that.
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Trin Tantsetthi                           [email-masked]
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