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dc.contributor.authorFumagalli, Matteo
dc.contributor.authorKemmerling, Achim
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-20T08:30:02Z
dc.date.available2022-10-20T08:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-19
dc.identifier.citationFumagalli , M & Kemmerling , A 2022 , ' Development aid and domestic regional inequality : the case of Myanmar ' , Eurasian Geography and Economics , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2134167en
dc.identifier.issn1538-7216
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 281590033
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 9a622206-1021-410a-927c-c9899dff1c30
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-1451-2088/work/121311983
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85140301999
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000870668100001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26220
dc.descriptionFunding: The work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/S00405X/1]; the Open Society Foundations; the Thyssen Foundation [Az. 50.14.0.046]; the Academy of Korean Studies [AKS-2015-R39]; and Universität Erfurt.en
dc.description.abstractThere is a cyclical nature to the dilemmas confronting international donors willing to operate in Myanmar. Brief periods of relative openness have led to rapid surges in development assistance, regularly interrupted by long phases of military rule and similarly swift disengagement by donors. Amidst all this, the country’s many predicaments remain. This article engages with one of them: the inequality between regions, including that between the Bamar-majority centre and the periphery, mostly inhabited by ethnic minority groups. How have international donors reacted to the issue of domestic regional inequality? Although some recent scholarly studies show that official development assistance (ODA) does not target poor regions very well, it is not always clear why this is the case. Myanmar offers a particularly instructive case to seek an answer to this question. The country's sudden, yet uneven and unequal liberalisation from 2011 to 2021 catalysed huge inflows of ODA, while it also confronted donors with new policy dilemmas. The article shows that international donors struggle with the problem of rising regional inequality, especially for political reasons. Donor and recipient interests often do not align well on this issue. In the case of Myanmar, donors who press for regional inequality to sit prominently on the agenda might fare less successfully than those who address the issue indirectly. Going beyond Myanmar, the article concludes that regional inequality and, in particular, the politics of targeting deserve a more central role in the political economy of ODA.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEurasian Geography and Economicsen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectMyanmar (Bruma)en
dc.subjectKnowledge productionen
dc.subjectAsiaen
dc.subjectAid targetingen
dc.subjectDevelopment assistanceen
dc.subjectRegional inequalityen
dc.subjectDomestic inequalityen
dc.subjectDonorsen
dc.subjectHigher educationen
dc.subjectSouth Koreaen
dc.subjectJapanen
dc.subjectGermanyen
dc.subjectUKen
dc.subjectPositionalityen
dc.subjectColonialismen
dc.subjectBorderlandsen
dc.subjectJZ International relationsen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 1 - No Povertyen
dc.subject.lccJZen
dc.titleDevelopment aid and domestic regional inequality : the case of Myanmaren
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of International Relationsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studiesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2134167
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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