Multinationals, Technology and Regional Linkages in Myanmar's Clothing Industry

Tin Htoo Naing and Yap Su Fei
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Tin Htoo Naing: Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya
Yap Su Fei: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya

No DP-2015-14, Working Papers from Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)

Abstract: Myanmar’s clothing industry has played a pivotal role in generating employment and exports. This article makes a contribution to the explication of the role of supporting institutions in the development of clothing manufacturing in Myanmar. The statistical analysis show that technological intensity is not correlated with labour productivity and export-intensity, which may be a consequence of the infancy of the industry and the use of old technologies in Myanmar. Also, the Probit estimations show that regional linkages matter in labour productivity and exportintensities but not with technological intensities in the clothing industry in Myanmar.

Keywords: Clothing; Myanmar; productivity; regional linkages; technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L14 L22 L62 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages.
Date: 2015-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff and nep-sea
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