Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
Third Steering Committee Meeting of the Myanmar Enterprise Monitoring System (MEMS)
On 14 March 2018 UNU-WIDER — in partnership with the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance of Myanmar and Embassy of Denmark — is organizing the third Steering Committee meeting for the 'Towards inclusive development in Myanmar' project. The meeting is held at the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Office, Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss project progress and reporting, as well as review and approve the workplans and budgets for the next implementation phases (Apr - Sep 2018 and Oct 2018 - Sep 2019).
As part of the 2018 activities, qualitative interviews are implemented for the first time as part of the project. The interviews cover approximately 100 firms located in 4-6 townships within 2 states/regions.