Myanmar's External Trade
Title | Myanmar's External Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Mya Than |
Publisher | Institute of Southeast Asian |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9813016132 |
The grim state of the Myanmar economy in the second half of the 1980s forced the previous government of the Burma Socialist Programme Party to liberalize its external and internal trade. Since the military coup following political chaos in the later part of 1988, Japan, the European Community and the United States have suspended new economic aid to Myanmar. This has led to the present military government, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), to work towards closer cooperation in diplomatic and trade relations with other Southeast Asian countries and to further liberalize its trade sector. This study explores and analyzes Myanmar's external trade and its trade relations with Southeast Asian nations, many of which are members of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN), and raises issues and prospects of economic cooperation with neighbouring countries in the region, including the option for active participation in ASEAN.
Foreign Trade Statistics of Myanmar
Title | Foreign Trade Statistics of Myanmar PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 730 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Burma |
ISBN |
Informal Trade and Underground Economy in Myanmar
Title | Informal Trade and Underground Economy in Myanmar PDF eBook |
Author | Winston Set Aung |
Publisher | Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2018-07-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 2355960240 |
At present, collecting and analyzing data from inside Myanmar remains notoriously difficult. There is, therefore, a non-Myanmar approach towards the majority of studies on Myanmar. This is especially the case when dealing with informal or illegal trade within the country’s territory. IRASEC and the Observatory on Illicit Trafficking wanted to fill this gap by giving the floor to Professor Winston Set Aung, the founder and the director of the Asia Development Research Institute, and director of the Asia Language and Business Academy in Myanmar. He is also an MBA lecturer at the Institute of Economics in Yangon and is involved in several international and regional research programs in partnership with various research institutes including the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Tokyo University, Japan; and the Institute for Security and Development Policy of Sweden, Stockholm Environmental Institute. The focus of Professor Winston Set Aung’s study is to provide a Myanmar-centric perspective on informal or illegal trade. The author offers an analysis regarding the process of informal exchanges through a pragmatic and non-contextualized critique. The causes of informal and illegal exchanges are identified and described without commenting on their origins. This intentional, measured, and calculated conservative perspective enables us to think on how to best use these flows in the current political situation in Myanmar. It seems therefore useful and relevant to make this data available to our readers.
Myanmar’s Foreign Exchange Market
Title | Myanmar’s Foreign Exchange Market PDF eBook |
Author | Koji Kubo |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 2018-09-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9811317895 |
This is the first book dedicated to the scrutinization of Myanmar's unofficial foreign exchange market, its roots in restrictive administrative controls on foreign exchange and international trade, and its effects on the country’s economic performance. This book integrates vast pieces of records and data with first-hand information from extensive fieldwork to create an overall picture of the chaotic but seemingly efficient foreign exchange market in Myanmar, a transitional economy in Southeast Asia whose economic systems had been less known due to its isolation until recently. This book illustrates how the unofficial foreign exchange market emerged during the country’s transition to a market-based economy, how informal currency deals proliferated under restrictive controls, and why they persist despite the significant economic reforms since 2011. Refuting the conventional wisdom of foreign exchange policy reforms, this research clarifies path-dependent features of foreign exchange market systems, and it discusses possible solutions for modernizing economic systems. This book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth analytical narrative about informal economic activities and foreign exchange policy reforms in a fragile state.
Agri-food trade in Myanmar: Its role in Myanmar’s future economic takeoff
Title | Agri-food trade in Myanmar: Its role in Myanmar’s future economic takeoff PDF eBook |
Author | Diao, Xinshen |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Agri-food exports are important for Myanmar’s economic takeoff, in particular for the transformation of agri-food systems. This paper analyzes the past performance of key agri-food exports and assess their role and future potential to contribute to the transformation of Myanmar’s agri-food system and the overall economy.
Economic Development of Myanmar
Title | Economic Development of Myanmar PDF eBook |
Author | Myat Thein |
Publisher | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9812302115 |
There are a number of excellent studies by eminent Myanmar economists as well as scholars from abroad covering different post-war periods and/or various aspects of development in Myanmar. What this book does is to bring them altogether, as it were, under one roof by recasting bits and pieces of their work according to the author’s own understanding. In doing so, a holistic approach was adopted in order to have a well-rounded account of developments over the past fifty years or more. In addition, an attempt has also been made to present the major developments at different periods of time between 1948 and 2000 in a simple, but not over simplified, reader-friendly format so as to reach as wide an audience as possible. It is the author’s ardent wish that not only students and policy-makers, but Myanmar people in all walks of life will read the book, discuss it, and work together for a better future.
The Myanmar Economy
Title | The Myanmar Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Konosuke Odaka |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2015-11-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 4431557350 |
With motivated human resources and a rich natural bounty, Myanmar is expected to take off with sustained growth and eventually attain a unique welfare state. On the basis of the authors’ field surveys and innumerable dialogues with public officials, private professionals, scholars, and others, in addition to intensive desk studies since around 2000, the present volume lays out the essential ingredients for drawing a roadmap to realise the above-mentioned objective. That goal is, specifically, financial development, adequate social capital, indigenous modern manufactures and closer international tie-ups, among others, but above all, sound agrarian development. An effort has been made to place the required ingredients in their historical contexts, as historical experiences constitute an important sociopolitical condition in which development takes place. Myanmar nationals and readers concerned with the country’s economic progress are encouraged to give serious, sustained thought to coming up with a socially supportable roadmap for the country's development path. The present volume provides valuable hints for that purpose.