Myanmar Business Environment Index 2020: Measuring Economic Governance for Private Sector Development (with Edmund Malesky and Ville Peltovuori)
The Asia Foundation initiated the first ever Myanmar Business Environment Index (MBEI) in 2018, surveying 4,874 Myanmar businesses in the service and manufacturing industries across the country and gathering a multitude of other hard data to map a more comprehensive, in-depth picture of the challenges they face and where government can target reforms to improve the business environment.
Myanmar Business Environment Index 2019: Measuring Economic Governance for Private Sector Development (with Edmund Malesky and Jon Keesecker)
The Economic Governance Index (EGI) is a tool that has become widely accepted by governments to understand economic growth, attract investors, and engage in public-private sector dialogue. The Myanmar Business Environment Index (MBEI) follows in this tradition by adapting the EGI model to the Myanmar context.
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University.
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My main research interest is the Political Economy of Development. I have a primary regional interest in Southeast Asia, especially the Philippines.