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Border Development in Myanmar: The Case of the Myawaddy-Mae Sot Border

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Border Economies in the Greater Mekong Subregion

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Myanmar shares long borders with five neighboring countries, namely China (a border of 2,185 km), Thailand (1,800 km), India (1,463 km), Laos (235 km) and Bangladesh (193 km), and shares the waters with Malaysia and Singapore. Given that these countries all differ in terms of their natural resource endowments and industrial development stages and it is therefore entirely understandable for Myanmar to establish stronger economic ties with its neighbors.

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  1. Research Planning Department, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), Japan

    Toshihiro Kudo (Senior Research Fellow)

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  1. Bangkok Research Center, JETRO Bangkok (Institute of Developing Economies), Japan

    Masami Ishida (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

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Kudo, T. (2013). Border Development in Myanmar: The Case of the Myawaddy-Mae Sot Border. In: Ishida, M. (eds) Border Economies in the Greater Mekong Subregion. IDE-JETRO. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302915_8

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