Kyushu University [Atsuko Mizuno (Associate Professor) Faculty of Economics, Department of International Economy and Business]

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Atsuko Mizuno
Associate Professor
Fields in International Economic Analysis
Department of International Economy and Business
Faculty of Economics
Last modified date：2023.04.28

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Department of Economic Systems
Graduate School of Economics

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Research Center for Korean Studies

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The Transformation of Myanmar's Economic Structure after the Covid-19 Pandemic and Political Upheaval
keyword : Myanmar Economy, the Covid-19 Pandemic, Political Upheaval
2022.04.
The Transformation of Myanmar's Economic Structure during the Civilian Government Period
keyword : Myanmar, Industrialization, Urbanization, Rural development
2021.04.
Socio-Economic Impacts of Myanmar's Reintegration into the Global Economy on Suburban Villages
keyword : Myanmar Economy, Industrialization, Urbanization, Rural development
2015.04～2021.03.
Growth of Garment industry in the Least Developing Countries: the Case of Myanmar
keyword : Least Developing Countries, Garment Industry, Asian economy, Area study on Myanmar Economy
2013.04～2016.03.
Myanmar Economic Study : Labour Migration and Economic Development Process
keyword : Myanmar Economy, Labour Migration, Economic Development
2012.10～2015.09.
Economic Relations Between Myanmar and China
keyword : Area Study on Myanmar　Economy, China, Foreign Economic Relations
2004.05～2015.05.

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K. Odaka (Ed.), The Myanmar Economy: Its Past, Present and Prospects, Springer, 2015.11, With motivated human resources and a rich natural bounty, Myanmar is expected to take off with sustained growth and eventually attain a unique welfare state. On the basis of the authors’ field surveys and innumerable dialogues with public officials, private professionals, scholars, and others, in addition to intensive desk studies since around 2000, the present volume lays out the essential ingredients for drawing a roadmap to realise the above-mentioned objective. That goal is, specifically, financial development, adequate social capital, indigenous modern manufactures and closer international tie-ups, among others, but above all, sound agrarian development. An effort has been made to place the required ingredients in their historical contexts, as historical experiences constitute an important sociopolitical condition in which development takes place. Myanmar nationals and readers concerned with the country’s economic progress are encouraged to give serious, sustained thought to coming up with a socially supportable roadmap for the country's development path. The present volume provides valuable hints for that purpose..

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1.	Atsuko Mizuno, Production Migration to Labour-sending Countries and Upgrading of the Thai Garment Industry, 2019.02, [URL].
2.	Atsuko Mizuno, Are India’s plans in Myanmar a pipeline or a pipe dream?, 2017.03, [URL].
3.	Atsuko Mizuno, Sino–Japanese competition heats up over Myanmar’s SEZs, 2016.04, [URL].

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Mechanization of Rice Harvesting in Yangon Suburban Villages in the 2010s.

Atsuko Mizuno, Economic relations between Myanmar and China, The Myanmar Economy: Its Past, Present and Prospects, 10.1007/978-4-431-55735-7_8, 195-224, 2015.01, As the relationship between China and Myanmar become closer under the military regime, Myanmar deepened its economic dependence on China. Although economic ties with China contributed to the stability of Myanmar, but made little contribution to Myanmar's broad-based growth and industrial development and even resulted in hindering the country's reforms and in causing anti-Chinese sentiment. After 2011, its rapidly improving relations with the international community enabled Myanmar to broaden and to restore balance in its external economic relations. Myanmar's economic dependence on China is likely to be mitigated; however, the bilateral economic relations will continue to have a strategic impact..

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Atsuko Mizuno, Production Migration to Labor-sending Countries, and Upgrading of the Thai Garment Industry, SEASIA 2017 Conference, 2017.12, Previouse study has shown that unskilled foreign workers have provided Thailand breathing space to upgrading the industry by allowing the country to continue with labor-intensive industried. It is pointed out that the garment firms, that were late in upgrading were likely to hire foreign workers during the period of structural adjustment. Thailand's cloting industry exports reached a peak in the latter half of the 2000s, and then began to show a downward trend. Meanwhile, the labour-sending countries to Thailand, especially Cambodia and Myanmar, has increased clothing exports since the begining of this century. Higher poroduction costs and labour shortage forced the garment manufactures in Thailand to implement industrial up grading, and move some production to the neighboring countries, in order to stay competitive and even achieve some growth. However, the relationship between employing foreign workers, the status of ungrading and production shifts to labor-sending countries has not been regorously assesed. The major popuse of this study is to analyse upgrading of Thai garment industry and production migration to Myanmar, the largest labour-sending country, with a focus on the evolution of the production network between these to countries. The produncion shift of garment industry from Thailand to the labour-sending countries expanded in the 2010s, in stite of coutinuouse labour immigration to the industry in Thailand. We reveal that production networks between thailand and the neighbouring countries were consolidated and that the Thai garment industry has sucseeded in upgrading while employing foreign workers trough this change..

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