Informal and Illegal Movement in the Upper Greater Mekong Subregion
Costs and Benefits of Informal Networks for Goods and People
Myanmar, the second biggest country in terms of area in mainland South East Asia, borders five neighboring countries: China, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, and Lao PDR. Myanmar's longest borders are with China (approximately 1,357 miles) and Thailand (approximately 1,314 miles), and it shares coastal waters with Malaysia and Singapore. Informal activities and informal moment of goods and people have been quite significant due to many factors. Although various policy measures have been developed ...
Éditeur : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Lieu d’édition : Bangkok
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 3 juillet 2018
ISBN numérique : 978-2-35596-023-9
DOI : 10.4000/books.irasec.1094
Collection : Observatoire des trafics | 3
Année d’édition : 2010
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-616-90282-8-4
Nombre de pages : 148
Myanmar, the second biggest country in terms of area in mainland South East Asia, borders five neighboring countries: China, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, and Lao PDR. Myanmar's longest borders are with China (approximately 1,357 miles) and Thailand (approximately 1,314 miles), and it shares coastal waters with Malaysia and Singapore. Informal activities and informal moment of goods and people have been quite significant due to many factors. Although various policy measures have been developed to mitigate these informal activities, there has not been any study regarding the sources of these informal activities, their costs and benefits, impacts and consequences of the existence and non-existence of these activities, or how these activities could be mitigated without having significant negative economic and social impacts on the local people and the economy as the whole. This paper attempts to identify factors behind causes and effects of informal flows in goods and persons across the borders between Myanmar and its neighboring countries, especially China and Thailand, and to address related issues and possible policy implications. This paper is a result of various surveys and studies in many places in Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand, and China from 2005 to 2009 under several research projects.
Dr. Lynn Thiesmeyer is Professor in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University, Japan. She specializes in social theory and Southeast Asian development. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1980. She works with governmental, non-governmental, academic and private sector organisations in Thailand, Laos, China, Cambodia, and Myanmar. She has also been a Rapporteur for the United Nations’ Expert Group Meeting of the Division for the Advancement of Women. She has organized and moderated videoconferences for the World Bank, and the United Nations University on sustainable development, globalization, and gender.
Lynn Thiesmeyer’s recent publications include two edited volumes, Discourse and Silencing (2004) and Human Security in East Asia (2009) as well as articles on public health and the Millenium Development Goals, and on landlessness in Southeast Asia.
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