Policy-based analysis of the intensity, causes and effects of poverty: The case of Mawlamyine, Myanmar

• Main Authors: Ni Lar, Peter Calkins, Songsak Sriboonchitta, Pisit Leeahtam
• 格式: 雜誌
• 出版: 2018
• 主題: Social Sciences
• 在線閱讀: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84861499542&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/52008

This article tells the story of poverty in Myanmar from a policy perspective. It employs an unprecedented household-level dataset on Mawlamyine Township to provide hitherto-lacking measurements of the extent of poverty and inequality, as well as the significant causes of that poverty. It then uses t...