Fiery Dragons

Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma

AvSean Turnell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

This book tells the story of Burma's financial system - of its banks, moneylenders and 'microfinanciers' - from colonial times to the present day. It argues that Burma's financial system matters, and that the careful study of this system can tell us something more general about Burma - not least about how the richest country in Southeast Asia at the dawn of the twentieth century, became the poorest at the dawn of the twenty-first. While financial systems and institutions matter in all countries,Turnell argues that they especially count in Burma as events in the financial and monetary sphere have been unusually, spectacularly, prominent in Burma's turbulent modern history. The story of Burma's financial system and its players is one that has shaped the country. It is a dramatic story of interest beyond the confines of economics and development studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:NIAS Monographs
Antal sidor:412
Förlag:NIAS Press
ISBN:9788776940416

Utforska kategorier

Servicesektorn inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Internationell ekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Finansiering inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Sean Turnell is currently Economic Advisor to the Myanmar government, a Senior Research Fellow at the Myanmar Development Institute, and an Associate Professor of Economics at Macquarie University in Sydney. A leading researcher of Myanmar's economy for over 20 years, he has been an adviser about this to various governments, international agencies, NGOs, etc. as well as a key adviser on economic policy to Myanmar's National League for Democracy and its chairperson, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The author of numerous academic and other studies of Myanmar, his seminal study into the country's monetary and banking history, Fiery Dragons, was published by NIAS Press in 2009.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Names and Places; Commonly Used Abbreviations; Timeline of Events in Modern Burma; 1. Introduction; 2. The Chettiars; 3. Cooperative Credit to the Rescue?; 4. One Bank, Two Countries: Imaginings of a Central Bank in Colonial Burma; 5. Aristocratic Eagles: The Commercial and Exchange Banks; 6. Reconstruction, a Currency Board and the Union 'Banks' of Burma; 7. Agricultural and Commercial Banking in the Parliamentary Democracy Era; 8. The Road to Ruin: Credit and Banking under Military Rule; 9. 'Reform' under the SLORC/SPDC; 10. The Crash; 11. Microfinance in Burma; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.