Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey
Public infrastructure development since 2011 has been extremely rapid, reflecting changing budgetary priorities at the union level. Sixty-five percent of rural electrification has occurred since this time, as has construction of more than half of secondary schools and 70% of public tubewells. Road i...
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Michigan State University
2017
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| author | Belton, Ben Filipski, Mateusz J. Hu, Chaoran Oo, Aung Tun Htun, Aung |
| author_browse | Belton, Ben Filipski, Mateusz J. Htun, Aung Hu, Chaoran Oo, Aung Tun |
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| description | Public infrastructure development since 2011 has been extremely rapid, reflecting changing budgetary priorities at the union level. Sixty-five percent of rural electrification has occurred since this time, as has construction of more than half of secondary schools and 70% of public tubewells. Road infrastructure – already relatively good in comparison to other areas of the country – also improved during this period. Businesses offering transport services for goods and people have proliferated, reducing journey times from rural to urban areas and promoting greater mobility and market access. There has been a similar explosion in numbers of other off-farm enterprises, most notably those offering agricultural mechanization services, which have expanded with extreme rapidity. Brisk growth in numbers of non-farm enterprises providing goods and services for consumption (retailers, food sellers, etc.) has also taken place. The growth of both sets of businesses is associated with rapidly rising real rural wages, which increased by close to 40% between 2012 and 2014. This has created demand for labor saving technology in agriculture, and has increased consumer spending power. Access to credit has improved significantly, driven particularly by the expansion of loans provide by the Department of Cooperatives, and by microfinance institutions. This change has had a very significant impact on rates of interest charged on informal loans, which have fallen almost 5% per month since 2012. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1482442025-11-06T06:05:15Z Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey Belton, Ben Filipski, Mateusz J. Hu, Chaoran Oo, Aung Tun Htun, Aung consumer expenditure business enterprises interest rates arid zones agricultural mechanization rural development remuneration rural areas credit Public infrastructure development since 2011 has been extremely rapid, reflecting changing budgetary priorities at the union level. Sixty-five percent of rural electrification has occurred since this time, as has construction of more than half of secondary schools and 70% of public tubewells. Road infrastructure – already relatively good in comparison to other areas of the country – also improved during this period. Businesses offering transport services for goods and people have proliferated, reducing journey times from rural to urban areas and promoting greater mobility and market access. There has been a similar explosion in numbers of other off-farm enterprises, most notably those offering agricultural mechanization services, which have expanded with extreme rapidity. Brisk growth in numbers of non-farm enterprises providing goods and services for consumption (retailers, food sellers, etc.) has also taken place. The growth of both sets of businesses is associated with rapidly rising real rural wages, which increased by close to 40% between 2012 and 2014. This has created demand for labor saving technology in agriculture, and has increased consumer spending power. Access to credit has improved significantly, driven particularly by the expansion of loans provide by the Department of Cooperatives, and by microfinance institutions. This change has had a very significant impact on rates of interest charged on informal loans, which have fallen almost 5% per month since 2012. 2017 2024-06-21T09:24:09Z 2024-06-21T09:24:09Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148244 en application/pdf Michigan State University Belton, Ben; Filipski, Mateusz J.; Hu, Chaoran; Oo, Aung Tun; and Htun, Aung. 2017. Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey. Food Security Policy Innovation Lab Research Paper 64. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University. https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/rural-transformation-in-central-myanmar-results-from-the-rural-economy-and-agriculture-dry-zone-community-survey |
| spellingShingle | consumer expenditure business enterprises interest rates arid zones agricultural mechanization rural development remuneration rural areas credit Belton, Ben Filipski, Mateusz J. Hu, Chaoran Oo, Aung Tun Htun, Aung Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey |
| title | Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey |
| title_full | Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey |
| title_fullStr | Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey |
| title_short | Rural transformation in central Myanmar: Results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey |
| title_sort | rural transformation in central myanmar results from the rural economy and agriculture dry zone community survey |
| topic | consumer expenditure business enterprises interest rates arid zones agricultural mechanization rural development remuneration rural areas credit |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148244 |
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