One of the most significant legal reforms undertaken to improve the investment climate in Myanmar has been the promulgation of the 2017 Myanmar Companies Law (MCL), which sets new criteria for company classification and is expected to help boost foreign direct investment inflows, which have slumped in recent years. After a lengthy delay, the...
Offering a range of attractive investor incentives, Myanmar’s special economic zones (SEZs) hold significant potential to attract new foreign direct investment (FDI), support industrialisation and manufacturing activities, and boost employment and export receipts. The country’s sole operational facility, the Thilawa SEZ, has already become a...
Considered to be the last frontier market in Southeast Asia, Myanmar remains focused on creating the right set of conditions to attract and facilitate foreign investment to spur economic development. Following decades of military rule that maintained a socialist and centrally planned economic model, cutting off access to the world’s financial...
Decades of growth in trade and foreign investment have made economies around the world more interconnected and interdependent than ever before. The production of goods and, increasingly, the provision of services have become fractured across borders as corporations create and integrate into regional and global value chains. These trends have...
Myanmar’s capital market has developed steadily in recent years. The Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) welcomed its first initial public offering (IPO) in January 2018, three years after its inception, amid renewed efforts to encourage a growing base of eligible companies to list. As is the case with many young exchanges, the YSX is small and...
While 2018 is unlikely to earn the description of a time of significant global trade cooperation, the year did end on a note of cautious optimism for advocates of open trade, when, at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, the US declared a 90-day truce in its 10-month-long trade war with China. It is hoped that this ceasefire will stand, leading to...
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