Burma's Economy in the Twentieth-Century

Name: Burma's Economy in the Twentieth-Century
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ISBN: 9781107015883

ISBN-10: 110701588X

ISBN-13: 9781107015883

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ian Brown

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At the beginning of the twentieth-century, Burma was among the most prosperous territories in the East. Yet since gaining independence in 1948, its economy has struggled. Burma's developmental failure has often been attributed to gross mismanagement of the economy by the military who took power in 1962 but in this illuminating book, Ian Brown, one of the leading economic historians of Southeast Asia, provides a fresh examination of the country's economic past, thereby setting that failure in the context of the colonial period. For the first time, a review of Burma's economic experience in the final decades of British rule is integrated with an analysis of its economy since independence,…

Book details

List price: $78.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/7/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.100