Hla Myint

Hla Myint ( ; 1920 – 9 March 2017) was a Burmese economist. He was known as one of the pioneers of development of welfare economics. He worked on the importance of export-orientation as the most useful "engine of growth".http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs3/Vision-strategy.ocr.pdfhttp://homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/myint.htmKaung, Kyi May, (1995) Theories, Paradigms, or Models in Burma Studies, Asian Survey. Vol. 35, No. 11 (Nov.), pp. 1030-1041 He was born in Bassein, Irrawaddy Division, British Burma.Blaug, Mark (1986) Who's who in economics: a biographical dictionary of major economists, 1700-1986, MIT Press Myint served  as Emeritus Professor of Economics, teaching development economics, at the London School of Economics from 1966 to 1985.

Myint died on 9 March 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand at the age of 97.

Major works
 Theories of Welfare Economics, Longmans Green, 1948.
 Economic Theory and the Underdeveloped Countries, 1971
 Southeast Asia's Economy: Development Policies in the 1970s (Penguin Modern Economics Texts) Penguin Books, 1972

Related pages
List of scientists from Asia

References

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