Reconsidering the failure of the Burma Socialist Programme Party government to eradicate internal economic impediments

South East Asia Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-58

  Hlaing, Kyaw Yin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Informal economy; Party state; Politics of survival; Social revolution; State incapacity

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; STATE-BUSINESS RELATIONS;

MYANMAR;

EID: 0038331876     PISSN: 0967828X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000003101297133     Document Type: Article

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