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
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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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