Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- PART I The World I Grew Up In -- Chapter 1 75 Years of Global Growth and Development -- Foundations of the Post-War Global Economic Order -- Chapter 2 Kuznets' Curse: The Issues of the World Economy Today -- The Original...

The central focus of the book is the state’s efforts to industrialize Myanmar, first through direct intervention and planning under a socialist economic framework as interpreted by the state leaders (1948-88) and lately (1989 onwards) through state-managed outward orientation. In examining...