6.3% in 2013 on the back of commodity exports and a pick-up in foreign
investment – about as much as other fast-growing regional economies
such as Indonesia. It also suggests that Myanmar could grow at 7%-8%
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tough Western sanctions that prevented Western firms from buying
Myanmar products or investing there, though economists believe policy
mistakes and over-reliance on inefficient state enterprises also played
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recent excitement over reforms there. As Western [91]governments lift
sanctions and more investors charge in, the country could run into an
assortment of challenges that commonly bedevil frontier economies,