Publications

Name NANG MYA KAY KHAING

Seq No

7

Title

The Economic Transition in Myanmar After 1988: Market Economy versus State Control

Single/Multiple Authorship

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Publisher

NUS Press

Page

p. 281 - 306

Year/Month

200901

Editor/Coauthor(s)

Koichi Fujita, Fumiharu Mieno, Ikuko Okamoto, eds., 

Summary

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 Based on an original interview survey of workers (car drivers, 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.