An opinion survey on 64 economists at 27 leading organisations found most respondents were confident of the capabilities of the Prayut Chan-o-cha government's economic team, Bangkok University stated on Saturday.
The university conducted the poll from Sept 11 to 22 on confidence in the economic team of the new government and the viability of its economic policies.
It found that 51.3% of the surveyed economists had confidence in the knowledge and capabilities of the team, 19.2% were not quite confident, 3.3% had no confidence and 26.2% were uncertain.
Overall, 73.4% had confidence in Gen Prayut. Among the economic ministers, the top three attracting the highest confidence were Deputy Prime Minister MR Pridiyathorn Devakula (76.6%), Energy Minister Narongchai Akrasanee (65.6%) and Finance Minister Sommai Phasee (62.5%).
On the viability of overall economic policies, 44.9% of the surveyed people did not believe they would work while 44.5% thought they could be sucessful.
The top three policies most likely to be successful are transport development (78.1%), export promotion (54.7%) and expanded taxation (53.1%).
On the other end of the scale, the three policies perceived to be the least successful are agricultural zoning (62.5%), the improved efficiency, transparency and accountability of state enterprises (62.5%) and the capability enhancement of small and medium-sized enterprises (53.1%).