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    Whither Myanmar’s Garment Sector?

    Freeman, Nick J. | March 2019
    Abstract
    In 2013 Myanmar was reinstated into the EU Single Market’s “Generalized Scheme of Preferences” (GSP), under which goods from the country — and forty-six other least developed countries — may enter the EU duty- and quota-free, in conformity with the “Everything But Arms” (EBA) trade scheme. This followed the positive progress that Myanmar had recently made in transitioning away from a military-led government, and served as “recognition of [Myanmar’s] efforts to launch ambitious political, social and labour reforms”. However, in October 2018, following a fact-finding mission to Myanmar, the EU cautioned that Myanmar’s GSP privileges might be suspended because of “deeply worrying developments highlighted in various United Nations reports, in particular as regards human rights violations in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States and concerns around labour rights”.
    Citation
    Freeman, Nick J.. 2019. Whither Myanmar’s Garment Sector?. © ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9816.
    PDF ISBN
    978-981-4843-63-8
    Print ISBN
    978-981-4843-62-1
    ISSN
    0219-3213
    Keywords
    Development
    Trade
    Development Goals
    Skills Development
    Sustainable Development
    Trade Flows
    Trade And Development
    Food Security And Trade
    Trade Volume
    Trade Potential
    Trade Flows
    External Trade
    Industrial policy
    New technology
    Innovations
    Industry
    Export policy
    Import policy
    Trade Unions
    Natural Resources
    Services Trade
    SMEs
    Development assistance
    ADB
    Curriculum development
    Development assistance
    Development aid
    Development indicators
    Development potential
    Development models
    Project appraisal
    Performance appraisal
    Regional development bank
    Trade development
    Import volume
    Export volume
    Service industry
    Career development
    Vocational training
    Contract Labor
    Labor income
    Labor policy
    Manpower policy
    Promotions
    Career development
    Job analysis
    Self-evaluation
    Supervisors
    Capital
    Business
    Communication in rural development
    Social participation
    Occupational training
    Partnership
    Joint venture
    System analysis
    Labor and globalization
    Labor policy
    Regional trading blocs
    Foreign trade and employment
    Developing countries
    Industrial priorities
    Technological innovation
    Technology transfer
    Foreign trade regulation
    Industrial relations
    Trade-unions
    Small business
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    Theme
    Development
    Trade
    Labor Migration

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