The Burma Road to Poverty
Mya Maung
Praeger Pub Text
Going beyond standard approaches to development, the author looks to Burmese culture and history for the deeper sources of contemporary socialand political upheavals and links the economic collapse of the country to the attempts of successive military dictatorships to impose despotism where skilled management and a degree of freedom were needed. Based on field research, interviews, and Maung's first-hand knowledge of Burmese culture, this analysis contributes a balanced perspective and new information crucial to our understanding of a society that has been largely closed to outsiders for more than two decades.