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Financial Reforms in Myanmar and Japan's Engagement

Macroeconomy, Regulation and Governance

Financial Reforms in Myanmar and Japan's Engagement

Since 2011, under the Thein Sein government, Myanmar has started to build financial institutions almost from scratch. Japan has played a leading role in this transition, writing off debt, opening the Yangon Stock Exchange, vying for the entry of Japanese banks, and laying out finance-related laws. As in other Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar's oligopolistic economic structure and colonial past present considerable challenges. There is a rich literature on the relationship between well-functioning financial institutions and economic growth, but the causality of this relationship remains inconclusive. This paper examines the preconditions for financial institutions to be a vehicle for Myanmar's development.

ERIA-DP-2016-27

Author/Editor

Tomoo Kikuchi, Takehiro Masumoto

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