The paper Opportunities for Sustainable Development in Global Value Chains: A Case Study of the Myanmar Garment Sector analyses the dynamics of Myanmar’s participation in the apparel global value chain and proposes policy recommendations to support economic upgrading, and social and environmental sustainability for the industry. The objective of this paper is to offer a “case study” exploring how the garment sector in Myanmar developed, to analyse the related development impacts and, through policy recommendations, to propose how Myanmar’s participation in the garment value chain can sustain economic and social developments in future. The empirical research on firms in the garment export industry reported on here is based on trade and national industry data, as well as interviews with representatives of garment firms and institutional actors conducted largely in March and June 2017.
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