Agro-industry, exports, and income distribution: A multiplier decomposition analysis for Myanmar

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This paper considers the impacts of agro-industry development and international trade on income distribution in Myanmar, focusing on low-income rural households. We use a social accounting matrix multiplier (SAM) decomposition model featuring detailed economic linkages. After describing the Myanmar economy through the lens of a SAM for 2017, we focus on agriculture development. Our results suggest that low-income rural households benefit considerably from exogenous increases in crop and agro-processing activities. A full decomposition of the multipliers indicates that low-income rural farming households link strongly to agro-processing, mainly through spillover and feedback effects. However, agro-processing is at a low level of development in Myanmar. We then consider international trade, which reveals high rates of import leakages and that broad export improvement would benefit low-income rural farm households more than other households. This suggests that investment in agro-processing value chain development would be beneficial overall and particularly for low-income rural households.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN: 978-92-9256-872-6

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2020/115

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; General Aggregative Models: Social Accounting Matrix ; Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
• Thema: social accounting matrix ; decomposition ; Myanmar

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): van Seventer, Dirk ; Tarp, Finn
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2020/872-6
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/229339
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:25 MESZ