Thailand Keeps Inflation Target for Next Year With Caveats
- Finance Ministry, BOT in deal to retain 1-3% target for 2025
- Finance Ministry demands steps to boost inflation, growth
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Thai authorities reached a tentative agreement to keep the inflation target at 1% to 3% for next year, with the Finance Ministry pressing the central bank to take steps to spur price gains and growth in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy.
The price goal, in place since 2020, could be retained in 2025 provided the Bank of Thailand comes up with policies to push up inflation to 2%, Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira told reporters after a two-hour meeting with central bank Governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput on Tuesday.