This project supported documentation in Myanmar, with the aim of rebuilding its intellectual assets and enhancing its knowledge base. Specifically, two English language textbooks, on Myanmar's modern economic development and on the international economy, were produced, with an eye to developing human resources for a market economy.
To ensure the textbooks' wide usability and applicability, Dr. Mya Than, highly regarded both at home and abroad for his research, and Myat Thein, former rector of the Yangon Institute of Economics, oversaw the compilation. The two resulting works, Myanmar's Economic Development Since 1948 and Regional Economic Cooperation: ASEAN and Myanmar, are scheduled to be published by the Singapore-based Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in late September 2002.