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The “Maquila” Lessons and Implications to Thai-Myanmar Border Development

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  • Hiroyuki Taguchi
  • Nattawoot Tripetch

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This paper aims to extract the lessons from the “Maquila” history of the US-Mexico border development and to present their policy implications to the upcoming Thai-Myanmar border development. The “Maquila” system, the Mexican “in-bond processing” program is said to be the most successful case as border area development in the world, since it has contributed a lot to the development of Mexican economy as well as of the US border cities from its spillover effects, though it has faced several challenges under fierce global competition. The Maquila-wise system is definitely required in Thai-Myanmar border development both for the job creations in Myanmar side and for the industrial reformation in Thailand side. Careful designing of in-bond processing system, enhancing outer-link connectivity from borders to central cities, and labor skill development are the policy implications obtained from the Maquila lessons.

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  • Hiroyuki Taguchi & Nattawoot Tripetch, 2014. "The “Maquila” Lessons and Implications to Thai-Myanmar Border Development," International Journal of Asian Social Science, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 2(3), pages 392-406.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:ijoass:v:2:y:2014:i:3:p:392-406:id:2643
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    Cited by:

    1. Kenji Nozaki, 2014. "Industrial Dispersion in Thailand with Changes in Trade Policies," International Journal of Asian Social Science, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 4(7), pages 806-819, July.
    2. Hiroyuki Taguchi & Thet Mon Soe, 2021. "Myanmar’s Manufacturing Exports After the Lifting of Economic Sanctions," Foreign Trade Review, , vol. 56(2), pages 147-164, May.
    3. Hiroyuki Taguchi & Mon Soe Thet, 2021. "Quantitative linkage between global value chains’ backward participation and logistics performance in the host country: a structural gravity model analysis of emerging ASEAN economies," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 5(2), pages 453-475, June.
    4. Taguchi, Hiroyuki, 2021. "Manufacturing exports after the lifting of economic sanctions in Myanmar," MPRA Paper 107956, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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