Multi-dimensional review of myanmar volume 3. from analysis to action
Myanmar is in need of a structural transformation from an agrarian economy to one based more on a mix of modern activities, including manufacturing and services. Modernising the agricultural sector by building linkages to complementary non-agricultural activities – an “agricultural value chain” appr...
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Paris, France :
OECD Publishing
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Executive summary
- The modernisation of Myanmar's economy starts with agriculture
- Products and markets: Creating value through quality
- Education and research
- Modernising agricultural finance
- Strengthening land rights
- From expectation to action - participatory policy design
- Managing migration
- Chapter 1 Overview: Opportunities and challenges for Myanmar
- Figure 1.1. Multi-dimensional Review of Myanmar process
- Myanmar has enormous development potential
- Figure 1.2. Arable land is abundant in Myanmar, especially in per capita terms
- Figure 1.3. Increasing population in the coming decades will contribute to high potential growth
- Well-being is undermined by low levels of social connections, empowerment and participation
- Box 1.1. The OECD How's Life framework
- Figure 1.4. Well-being in Myanmar is undermined by low social connections, empowerment and participation
- Myanmar needs to rapidly accumulate different types of capital for structural transformation
- Physical capital
- Human capital
- Figure 1.5. Public expenditure on education is low in Myanmar
- Social capital
- Figure 1.6. Myanmar's population will start ageing soon
- Figure 1.7. Corruption is common in Myanmar
- Figure 1.8. Few people voice their opinion to a public official in Myanmar
- Institutional capital
- Figure 1.9. Myanmar's government revenue is lower than would be expected for its income level
- References
- Chapter 2 Myanmar's structural transformation starts with agricultural modernisation and rural development
- Market drive - creating value through quality products
- Better understand the demand for Myanmar's products
- Figure 2.1. Pulses are Myanmar's most valuable export crops.
- Figure 2.2. The marginal products on inputs tend to increase with farm size
- Support producers and exporters to meet international export requirements
- Box 2.1. Improving food safety: Learning from Viet Nam's dragon fruit experience
- Build the Myanmar brand
- Box 2.2. ProChile: Promoting Chilean products abroad
- Build and improve the infrastructure necessary to value chains, and improve industrial/economic zone policies
- Help improve existing value chains and facilitate the building of new chains
- Box 2.3. Kenya's avocado cluster: How it was done
- Research and rural training for the 21st century
- Dedicate more resources to research, including on high-value crops
- Disseminate information to farmers and rural businesses more efficiently
- Box 2.4. ICT: Improving market price information dissemination
- Scale up provision of quality technical and vocational education and training
- Figure 2.3. Secondary technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is extremely limited in Myanmar
- Box 2.5. Institutional frameworks to involve social partners in Denmark
- Facilitate skills upgrades and workplace training
- Modernising agricultural finance
- Expand financial services available to the rural economy
- Table 2.1. Financing needs for the rural economy
- Reform the Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank
- Develop formal financial institutions and markets
- Box 2.6. Best practice for the commercialisation of state-owned enterprises
- Strengthen public financial management and revenue collection
- Strengthening land rights
- Strengthen and clarify land rights, and improve production incentives by easing restrictions on land use
- Improve the administration of land laws
- From expectation to action - moving towards participatory policy design
- Improve civic participation in policy-making processes.
- Strengthening capacity for implementation
- Box 2.7. Consultation tools for policy making
- Combat corruption and perceptions of corrupt behaviour
- Managing migration and structural transformation
- Figure 2.4. Around 10% of Myanmar's population is estimated to live abroad
- Provide appropriate incentives for skilled workers to stay in Myanmar and for the diaspora to return
- Formalising and capitalising on migration
- Box 2.8. Attracting talent back
- Note
- References
- Conclusion.
