Abstract:
This thesis focused on the study of the public debt report to the Parliament which is one of the fiscal disciplinary frameworks established for administrating public debt in Thailand. The study found that the principle of law regarding the public debt report is substantially limited, for instance, the lack of information regarding the public debt in the budget documents and report specified in Article 17 of Public Debt Management Act, B.E. 2548 (2005) and Amendments. With regard to the budget documents, the absence of the public debt estimation and Medium -Term Debt Management Strategy has obstructed the Parliament from recognizing the operational approaches and indexes which are used by the Government to assess the risks of the public debt. Moreover, the implementation report under the said Article 17 also lacks the public debt estimation and public debt risk assessment. On the subject of the law, there is no provision of law stating the duty of the Parliament concerning the administration or perception of the corrective measures in case the actual proportion of the public debt is not conformed with the public debt management framework proposed by the Government. Because of the limit within the law, the Government's reliability and efficacy in maintaining the target of the the public debt management framework regarding the proportion of the public debt is significantly tarnished. According to the above-mentioned restrictions, the author suggested as follows; 1) proposing the fiscal plan and Medium -Term Debt Management Strategy, including budget documents, to the Parliament; 2) introducing the public debt estimation information and public debt risk assessment to the implementation report; 3) In case the actual proportion of the public debt is not conformed with the public debt management framework, the Government must provide the cause, corrective measures, and period of time required to rectify such anomaly and report to the Parliament, which will equip the Parliament with the adequate information in order to administrate the public debt and will benefit the fiscal sustainability in the long term.