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Agro-industry, exports, and income distribution: A multiplier decomposition analysis for Myanmar
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.
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Englisch
- ISBN
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978-92-9256-872-6
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2020/115
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
General Aggregative Models: Social Accounting Matrix
Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
- Subject
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social accounting matrix
decomposition
Myanmar
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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van Seventer, Dirk
Tarp, Finn
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Veröffentlichung
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The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- (where)
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Helsinki
- (when)
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2020/872-6
- Handle
- Last update
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20.09.2024, 8:25 AM CEST
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- van Seventer, Dirk
- Tarp, Finn
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Time of origin
- 2020