The Transformation of Myanmar's Transition Economy: Between Market Economy and State Control

Institute of Developing Economies

p. 309 - 334

Koichi Fujita ed.,

Based on an original interview survey of 181 people engaged in 11 types of miscellaneous businesses in Yangon (small business owners with stores, cab drivers, street vendors, skilled laborers, tricycle drivers, scavengers, shoe and umbrella repairers, garbage collectors, unskilled laborers, store sales workers, and restaurant waiters), the characteristics of the workers, the profitability of each occupation, and the household economy were analyzed in detail.