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Abstract
"This paper presents issues affecting the movement of rural labour in Myanmar, by examining the
background, purpose and earned income of labourers migrating to fishing villages in southern
Rakhine. A broad range of socioeconomic classes, from poor to rich, farmers to fishermen, is
migrating from broader areas to specific labour-intensive fishing subsectors, such as anchovy fishing.
These labourers are a mixed group of people whose motives lie either in supplementing their
household income or accumulating capital for further expansion of their economic activities. The
concentration of migrating labourers with different objectives in this particular unstable, unskilled
employment opportunity suggests an insufficiently developed domestic labour market in rural
Myanmar. There is a pressing need to create stable labour-intensive industries to meet this demand."
Source/publisher:
INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES (IDE), JETRO Discussion Paper 206
Date of Publication:
2009-07-00
Date of entry:
2009-09-12
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English
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