Smart Transitions

Foreign Investment, Disruptive Technology, and Democratic Reform in Myanmar

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ID4188174
AuthorsJohn Dale (0000-0001-9256-3553), John G Dale (0000-0003-3162-3262, corresponding author), David Kyle (0000-0001-7028-7068)
Year2015
Volume82
Issue2
Pages291-326
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/sor.2015.0031
OpenAlexW1434771160
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

Smart Transitions? Foreign Investment, Disruptive Technology, and Democratic Reform in Myanmar Since 2012, Myanmar has transformed from a “pariah state” and one of the world’s least attractive business climates to a “frontier economy” transitioning to a democratic form of government and attracting foreign direct investment from around the world. Driving this new investment is a transnational vision of economic development that seeks to transform Myanmar’s emerging megacity (Yangon) into a “smart city,” incorporating it into the existing transnational archipelago of other smart-city development projects fueling the growth of today’s global, knowledge-capitalist economy. If realized, this vision will undermine Myanmar’s democratic transition because it exacerbates existing sources of inequality, and introduces new ones

Business · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Foreign direct investment · Government (linguistics · Investment (military · Pariah group · Political science · Politics · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography

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