Responding to Strategies and Programmes of Myanmar ́ s Military Regime

An Economic Viewpoint

Bibliographic Data

ID16625494
AuthorsArdeth Maung Thawnghmung (0000-0001-8913-7633, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume2008
Issue1
Pages274-290
Publication date2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSoutheast Asian affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0377-5437 • E-ISSN: 1793-9135
PublisherISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1355/seaa08o
OpenAlexW2085441101
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

The Myanmar military regime's harsh crackdown on popular demonstrations in September 2007 has generated intense international condemnation as well as other responses. Most of the criticisms and policy proposals offered in these responses, however, have focused upon political reform. Relatively little in the ways of proposals or even concern has dealt with economic reform, the lack of which was the main grievance of the demonstrations and protests. This article seeks to shed light on the roots of the current economic crisis while also analysing a number of measures taken by the post-1988 military regimes in order to find ways to remedy their difficult and indeed perennial economic problems. It will assess the rationale behind these varying measures and their impacts upon Myanmar citizens, the economy, and the regime's survival and future prospects. The article emphasizes the need for simultaneously devising new strategies to put pressure upon the Myanmar military regime to undertake economic reforms that not only address inefficiencies and mismanagements, but most particularly resonant with the needs of the majority of the population in Myanmar

Development economics · Economics · Grievance · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender, Education, and Development Issues · Global Political and Social Dynamics · Law

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