[pp.51-60]
Kyaw Nyunt MAUNG, Takahiro KOMATSU, Marianne Faith G. MARTINICO-PEREZ, Cherry Myo LWIN, Sujauddin MOHAMMAD, Kenji SUGIMO (Nagoya University / University of Tokyo)
Abstract:
This study assesses Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA) and examines its implications on Myanmar, Bangladesh, and the Philippines for the 1985-2009 period. Studying these implications is necessary for assessing and monitoring the physical dimension of economic metabolism to ensure sustainability. EW-MFA is a framework for compiling statistics, which indicates the overall amount of physical inputs into an economy, material accumulation in the economy, and output flows to other economies or back to nature. While such assessments have been conducted in many industrialized countries, little effort has been made to undertake a similar study in the context of developing countries. In this study, we compare the EW-MFA indicators of Myanmar, Bangladesh, and the Philippines and assess material flow and resource efficiency in each national context. While Myanmar is a primary resource provider, Bangladesh is a resource importer, and the Philippines is a newly industrialized country, the fundamentally different economic and development structure of each of these countries, coupled with similar policies and demographic trend, will provide a strong foundation for formulation of sustainable resource use policies in the region.
Key Word:
Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts, Southeast Asian countries, Direct Material Input, Domestic Material Consumption, Physical Trade Balance