Comment on “Toward Myanmar's New Stage of Development: Transition from Military Rule to the Market”

It is not easy to write a scholarly paper on Myanmar economy given the scarcity of reliable statistics. The paper by Fumiharu Mieno (2013) represents a commendable effort to shed some light on the dark chapters of the traumatized Myanmar economy. The problems of Myanmar are primarily homegrown. The military regime overthrew the civilian government in 1962, drove out the foreigners, and went into self-imposed isolation. It is pertinent to...