Photo: Courtesy of Telenor Wave Money Andrew Thomson considers the role of internal migrants in promoting financial inclusion in rural areas. Myanmar’s internal migrant workers have the potential to be the vanguard of financial inclusion. Presently, the vast majority of Myanmar’s population do not have access to the formal banking system, mostly the product of […]
The Chicken & Egg problem – raise Minimum Wage first or Productivity?
March 31, 2018 by
The decision by the National Committee for Designating Minimum Wage on January 2nd to increase the minimum wage has left many in the garment industry dissatisfied. Union officials believed that the new minimum wage of K4800 was not enough to cover the increasingly high cost of living, especially in the cities. Instead, they advocated […]
