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Benno Ferrarini
No. 325 | January 2013
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ADB Economics Working Paper Series
Myanmars Trade and its Potential
Benno Ferrarini
No. 325 January 2013
Benno Ferrarini is Senior Economist at the Economics
and Research Department of the Asian Development
Bank.
This paper is not written in an official capacity and must
not be attributed to ADB. In this long, unedited version,
the paper is mainly meant to provide the reader with
an overview of Myanmars trade profile and data for
broader reference. For a shorter and more technical
version, please contact the author at
bferrarini@adb.org. Without implicating, this analysis
benefitted from COMTRADE data extractions for world
trade matrices by Cindy Petalcorin, help on Myanmars
GDP series by Eileen Capilit, and from useful comments
from Martin Bodenstein, Enrique Galan, Eugenia Go,
and Arief Ramayandi in relation to an earlier draft. All
remaining errors are my own.
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CONTENTS
ABSTRACT v
I. INTRODUCTION 1
II. TRADE BY PARTNERS AND COMMODITIES 1
III. MYANMARS EXPORT POTENTIAL 7
IV. CONCLUSIONS 13
Annex 1. Myanmar's GDP in LCU and Exchange Rate 15
Annex 2. Myanmar's Bilateral Trade Profile, 19902010 16
Annex 3. Further Tabulations in Relation to Myanmar's Trade 22
Annex 4. Gravity Regression Analysis 46
Annex 5. Myanmar Gravity Exports 53
ABBREVIATIONS 58
REFERENCES 58
ABSTRACT