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Myanmar: Change in fiscal year insufficient to address shortfalls in budget process

While seen as positive, Nay Pyi Taw’s proposed change of fiscal year alone cannot address the lack of flexibility in the annual budgeting process, according to businesses. The adoption of multi-year budgeting should be adopted instead. Lawyers, investors and financiers told The Myanmar Times that while changing the fiscal year could bring some advantage to the economy, […]

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Thailand: Inflation target left untouched

The Bank of Thailand will maintain its inflation target band of 1-4% for next year on expectations that inflation will fall back to the lower band by mid-2018, says governor Veerathai Santiprabhob. “Currently, our forecast still points to [headline] inflation reaching the target band in early to mid-2018, so there’s no need to change the […]

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