Study On The Economic Impact Of FDI In Myanmar

Myanmar due to long-standing military ruling, ignoring the development of economy and people’s livelihood, has been closed to external closure, consequently that overall economic development imbalance, facing inflation, lack of finance, overvaluation, distorted interest, statistical distortion and so on. The new government took office, the end of the era of military dictatorship, the outside looks Myanmar by the Bureau of change, begun to pay attention to the potential for the development of Myanmar, together with U.S-Myanmar relations improve, Europe is expected to in the future lift implementation of many years of economic sanctions against Myanmar. Myanmar is in a state of trade deficit for 20 consecutive years since 1997. However, with the gradual opening of the economy, the government liberalized export trade restrictions, since 2006 after the close cooperation between Myanmar and the international trade, trade increased rapidly. With the relaxation of economic sanctions against Myanmar, the Myanmar in recent years, frequent jump on international media layout, nearly a year to Europe and the United States, Asian companies to Myanmar Pathfinder, inspection delegation is endless streams, count Myanmar as Southeast Asia last untapped virgin market.This paper mainly to foreign direct investment to Myanmar economic impact and development as the core, including political, social, economic and environmental aspects of investment, full introduced the relationship between Myanmar and FDI and FDI in the trade situation, current situation and development trend of the layout and FDI of Myanmar in Myanmar’s investment barriers, the main risk and preventive measures. FDI about the economic impact on Myanmar and employment opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of FDI investment in Myanmar, Investment opportunities and challenges, and ultimately to Myanmar with the FDI of the SWOT analysis, which found that the current Myanmar government use of foreign direct investment situations and existing problems, and put forward relevant policies and suggestion, is expected to make a contribution on the economic and social development in Myanmar.