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Thailand's drop in rankings defended
PREEYANAT PHANAYANGGOOR

The lowering of Thailand's ranking from 32^nd to 34^nd by the World Economic Forum was not an indication of the failure of bureaucratic reform as suggested by the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), the Office of Public Sector Development Commission (OPDC) said yesterday.

Secretary-general-Thossapom Sirisampan said the drop in ranking by the forum flew in the face of the World Bank's research, which in 2005 ranked Thailand in the top 20 of the 145 countries where procedures for conducting business were the best.

The country even ranked second in the world for the easy and quick process of registering property, Mr Thossaporn said.

The OPDC had cut redtape and streamlined the bureaucratic process, improving the system for both domestic and foreign investors by up to 50% since 2003.

"This has also led to an improvement in the country's competitiveness in the global market rather than obstructing it as claimed,'' he said.

Mr Thossaporn was responding to NESDB secretary general Ampon Kittiampon, who said earlier the latest economic competitiveness index of the World Economic Forum had dropped Thailand two places and that this was due to Thailand's miserable record on state reforms.

Thailand's public institutions indexhas also slipped in the rankings from 37^th to 45^th place, while its macroeconomic environment index has climbed three places fromz 6th last year to 23rd.The kingdom's technology index is also down, dropping from 39^th to 43^rd.

The index said one of Thailand's biggest problems was the lack of efficiency in the state sector, followed by corruption, education and the tax system.