date:Aug 27, 2014
Thailand will lend farmers and their children a combined 11 billion baht ($345 million) in an effort to fight off loan sharks as high levels of household debt drag on economic recovery, a state bank said on Tuesday. The plan is part of measures by the ruling junta, the National Council for Peace and Order, to revive Southeast Asia's second-largest economy, which was hurt by months of political unrest. The army took power on May 22.
The central bank and the state planning agency have indicated