Boonchu Rojanastien, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Thai politician
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Place of Birth: Chon Buri, Thailand
About Boonchu Rojanastien
- Boonchu Rojanastien (Thai: ????? ??????????; RTGS: Bunchu Rotchanasathian, Chinese: ???, Huang Wenbo born January 20, 1921, Chon Buri Province, Thailand, died March 19, 2007, Bangkok) was a Thai banker.
- Touted as Thailand's first "economics tsar", he served in the government of Kukrit Pramoj in 1975 and 1976.
- During his tenure as finance minister, he initiated a policy of "ngern phan" (money allocation), which distributed several billion baht of government funds to 5,000 tambon, or local government, councils.
- His populist policies would later be embraced under the administration of Thaksin Shinawatra.
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