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Title

Myanmar's external trade : an overview in the Southeast Asian context / Mya Than.

Author

Mya Than.

Publication

Singapore : ASEAN Economic Research Unit, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, [1992], ©1992.

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Description

viii, 116 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

ISEAS current economic affairs series, 0218-2114

Uniform Title

ISEAS current economic affairs series.

Subjects

• Burma > Commerce > Southeast Asia
• Burma > Commercial policy
• Southeast Asia > Commerce > Burma

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [114]-116).

Contents

• 1. Introduction. 1.1. Statistical Evidence: A Prefatory Note -- 2. Historical Perspective of Myanmar's External Trade. 2.1. Foreign Trade under the Burmese Kings. 2.2. Foreign Trade after the British Annexation of Lower Burma. 2.3. Trade under the British Colonial Rule -- 3. Myanmar's External Trade. 3.1. Export Performance. 3.1.1. Structure of Exports. 3.1.2. Principal Export Commodities and Their Prospects. 3.1.3. Export of Services. 3.2. Myanmar's Imports. 3.2.1. Structure of Imports. 3.3. Trade Balance, Terms-of-Trade, and Their Consequences. 3.4. Direction of Foreign Trade. 3.5. Countertrade. 3.6. Plan Performance in Myanmar's Foreign Trade. 3.7. Policy and Institutional Changes in Foreign Trade. 3.8. Myanmar's Informal Trade. 3.9. Conclusion -- 4. Myanmar-Southeast Asia Trade Relations. 4.1. Salient Features of Myanmar and Other Southeast Asian Countries. 4.2. Trade Patterns in Southeast Asian Countries. 4.3. Myanmar-Southeast Asia Trade.
• 4.4. Export and Import Intensity Indices. 4.5. Balance of Trade. 4.6. Trade Flows and Trade Preferences of Southeast Asian Countries. 4.7. Bilateral Trade Relations. 4.7.1. Myanmar-Indonesia Trade. 4.7.2. Myanmar-Malaysia Trade. 4.7.3. Myanmar-Philippines Trade. 4.7.4. Myanmar-Singapore Trade. 4.7.5. Myanmar-Thailand Trade. 4.7.6. Myanmar-Vietnam Trade -- 5. Conclusion: Problems and Prospects.

ISBN

9813016132

LCCN

96945677

OCLC

ocm27329152

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