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In Business: Myanmar - Learning to Do Business

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Myanmar - Learning to Do Business

25/09/2014

BBC Radio 4 - In Business, Myanmar - Learning to Do Business

Peter Day meets the local entrepreneurs of the new Myanmar.

Peter Day meets the local entrepreneurs of the new Myanmar and discovers the priorities and pitfalls of doing business in an emerging economy.

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, used to be one of the wealthiest countries of south-east Asia. Then came decades of military rule. While other Asian countries furiously modernised, Myanmar stagnated. In the past few years, the country has begun to open up and many international sanctions have been lifted.

But what's it like for home grown businesses and new entrepreneurs? Peter Day talks to those who are setting up businesses despite a number of challenges, such as a lack of funding and poor infrastructure. In the capital, Yangon, he meets people who went abroad for education and have now returned to seek business opportunities at home. And he visits rural Myanmar and sees how micro-financing is working in the countryside.

Producer: Charlotte MacDonald.

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