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4 - The Risky Business of Transformation

Social Enterprise in Myanmar’s Emerging Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2017

By
John Dale  and
David Kyle
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Melissa Crouch
Melissa Crouch
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
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The Business of Transition
Law Reform, Development and Economics in Myanmar
 , pp. 55 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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