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Y.V. Aleskerovа: Economy agriculture countries: Myanmar
THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.72, # 2, 2015, pp. 24-31

successful Long Game. A balanced attack, centered on the Long Game but complemented
by Short Game interventions, will likewise help to demonstrate to rural communities that
the GOM and its development partners are seriously committed to improving the
agriculture sector.
This multi-pronged approach addresses the needs of rural communities for early
visible change while at the same time remaining committed to necessary structural re-
engineering of institutions and policies. Myanmar‟s neighbors and competitors in
Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Malaysia, India and China have all committed to high-
productivity Long Game strategies. Without similar commitment from Myanmar, we find
it difficult to see how Myanmar‟s farmers will be able to compete in increasingly
competitive regional and global markets – including those at home. Because two-thirds of
Myanmar‟s population and three-fourths of its poor live and work in rural areas, broad-
based agricultural growth offers a uniquely powerful instrument for accelerating
economic growth and improving the welfare and food security of vulnerable households.
Myanmar‟s current highly skewed distribution of land, its growing levels of landlessness
and increasingly contentious disputes over land access not only pose dangers to vulnerable
household welfare but also risk inflaming social tensions and conflict. As a result, we
consider the Long Game reforms outlined here imperative for agricultural productivity
growth as well as long-term political stability.
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