Informal Trade and Underground Economy in Myanmar
Costs and Benefits
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...
Éditeur : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Lieu d’édition : Bangkok
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 3 juillet 2018
ISBN numérique : 978-2-35596-024-6
DOI : 10.4000/books.irasec.1123
Collection : Observatoire des trafics | 4
Année d’édition : 2011
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-616-7571-01-0
Nombre de pages : 96
Benoît de Tréglodé et Anne-Lise Sauterey
ForewordAt 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.
Winston Set Aung has been involved in many international and regional research projects in various countries including Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Japan. He has successfully completed over 40 international and regional research projects in more than 10 countries. He has written various research papers in cooperation with several international and regional academic, research and policy institutes that include University of Tokyo of Japan, Institute for Security and Development Policy of Sweden, Mekong Institute of Khon Kaen in Thailand, Chulalongkorn University of Bangkok, Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI-Asia), Nomura Research Institute of Japan, UNDP, etc. He is currently a Founder and the Director of Research of the Asia Development Research Institute (www.asiadevelopment.org), and also a Founder and Executive Director of Asia Language and Business Academy (www.alba-edu.com) of Myanmar. He is also a non-resident senior research fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy of Sweden. In addition, he is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of Mekong Institute which is an inter-governmental organization of the Greater Mekong Sub-region based in Thailand. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mekong Societies published by Center for Research on Plurality in the Mekong Region, Khon Kaen University of Thailand.
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