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Ekniti said he expects several hundred billion baht to gradually flow into the system from accelerated investment, helping support growth during the interim period, alongside the earlier \u201cQuick Big Win\u201d measures.<\/p>\n
Asked about projections from economic agencies that GDP growth this year could be below 2%, Ekniti said the government is working to ensure measures reach the economy as much as possible, adding that he remains confident growth can come close to, or reach, the 2% target.<\/p>\n
He also cited the \u201cKhon La Khrueng Plus\u201d co-payment scheme, which ended on December 31, 2025, as a strong success. The programme injected more than 84 billion baht into the economy and, in a preliminary assessment, lifted 2025 GDP by at least 0.2% despite running for a short period.<\/p>\n
He said the scheme\u2019s strength was its high economic multiplier because spending was widely distributed to provinces. Only about 15\u201316% of spending took place in Bangkok, with the remainder in upcountry areas. Because the money went directly to households and small operators, he said leakage into debt repayment or out of the system was limited, supporting stronger circulation in the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ekniti said he expects several hundred billion baht to gradually flow into the system from accelerated investment,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,93233,1348,99,164,113557,17119,42297,211127,92026],"class_list":["post-395586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boi","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ekniti-nitithanprapas","tag-gdp","tag-measures","tag-npls","tag-smes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}