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1 online resource |
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"This interdisciplinary volume offers a timely reflection on law, development and economics through empirical and comparative perspectives on contemporary Myanmar. The book explores the business that takes place in times of major political change through law and development initiatives and foreign investment. The expert contributors to this volume identify the ways in which law reform creates new markets, embodies hopes of social transformation and is animated by economic gain. This book is an invitation to think carefully and critically about the intersection between law, development and economics in times of political transition. The chapters speak to a range of common issues - land rights, access to finance, economic development, the role of law including its potential and its limits, and the intersection between local actors, globalised ideas and the international community. This interdisciplinary book is for students, scholars and practitioners of law and development, Asian studies, political science and international relations"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Reviews -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Understanding the Business of Transition in Myanmar -- Myanmar in the History of Law and Development -- Back to Business -- Whose Business? -- Business Matters -- Demands for Participation, Transparency and Equitable Distribution -- Reform of Legal Texts and Institutions -- Foreign Aid, Investment and Expertise -- Outline of the Book -- References |
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2 Labour Standards and International Investment in MyanmarLabour Standards and the Enabling Environment for Business -- Labour Standards in Myanmarâ#x80;#x99;s Reforming Institutional Environment -- Regulatory and Normative Pressures in the Application of Labour Standards -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative -- The EITI and Myanmar -- Why Implement the EITI? -- Joining the EITI Club -- The Multi-Stakeholder Group -- Improving Resource Governance through the EITI Report -- Conclusion -- References |
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4 The Risky Business of TransformationDemocratic Transformation Is Risky Business -- What Is a Social Enterprise? -- Social Enterprise in Myanmar -- The New Development Discourse on Inequality -- Creative Equality? Asian Innovation-Based Knowledge Economies -- The Measured Creativity of an Imagined Innovative Myanmar -- Social Entrepreneurship: Business as Usual or Transformative Agency? -- Marginalising a Critical Source of Grass-Roots Social Entrepreneurship -- Becoming Change Agents: The (Political) Prisonersâ#x80;#x99; Dilemma |
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Towards a Sustainable Democratic Transition5 Microfinance in Myanmar -- Microfinance: Promise and Potential -- Microfinance in Myanmar: The State of Play -- Myanmarâ#x80;#x99;s Leading MFIs -- The Microfinance Law -- Fetters, Failures and Ways Forward -- Limitations on Funding: The Need to Make the MFL Operational -- Interest Rate Restrictions: Time for Incremental Liberalisation -- Product Restrictions: Riding the Wave of Mobile Payments -- Micro-Insurance -- Regulatory Problems -- The Need to Move Beyond Peer-Group Lending |
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Alternatives to Microfinance: The Co-Operatives Cul de SacThe China Loan -- Lessons for Microfinance -- References -- 6 The Governance of Local Businesses in Myanmar -- Economic Governance in Myanmar -- The GAD as Managers of Local Economic Governance -- DAOs as Implementers of Local Economic Governance -- The Legacies of Military Rule for Local Economic Governance -- Conclusion -- References -- Laws -- 7 Special Economic Zones -- The Importance of SEZs for Economic Reform in the Asia-Pacific -- The Origins and Regulation of Myanmarâ#x80;#x99;s Special Economic Zones |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Burma -- Economic conditions -- 1988-
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Economic development -- Burma.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. |
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Economic development |
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Economic history |
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Burma https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqw6BFgBchbxjHxHGttKd |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1988 |
| Added Author |
Crouch, Melissa, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Business of transition. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781108416832 (DLC) 2017034629 (OCoLC)1001251007 |
| ISBN |
9781108277051 (electronic bk.) |
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1108277055 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108416832 |
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1108416837 |
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