This monograph tells the story of Burma's financial system - of its banks, moneylenders and 'microfinanciers' from colonial times to the present day. It argues that Burma's financial system matters, and that the careful study of this system can tell us something about Burma.
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Note on Names and Places | |
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| Commonly Used Abbreviations | |
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| Timeline of Events in Modern Burma | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Chettiars | |
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| Cooperative Credit to the Rescue? | |
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| One Bank, Two Countries: Imaginings of a Central Bank in Colonial Burma | |
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| Aristocratic Eagles: The Commercial and Exchange Banks | |
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| Reconstruction, a Currency Board and the Union 'Banks' of Burma | |
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| Agricultural and Commercial Banking in the Parliamentary Democracy Era | |
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| The Road to Ruin: Credit and Banking under Military Rule | |
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| 'Reform' under the SLORC/SPDC | |
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| The Crash | |
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| Microfinance in Burma | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
