Paul Minoletti

Paul Minoletti is a Research Coordinator at the Centre for Economic and Social Development (CESD) of the Myanmar Development Resource Institute (MDRI) in Yangon, where he has been working since October 2012. During his time at MDRI-CESD he has worked on a wide range of economic, social and governance issues, including: women’s participation in governance; migration; labour; public finances; and trade and investment. From April 2015 he will be working as an independent researcher, based in Myanmar. Prior to joining MDRI-CESD he had spent some time teaching English with Myanmar refugees in Thailand. He attained a doctorate in Economic and Social History from the University of Oxford in 2011. His thesis was titled, ‘The Importance of Gender Ideology and Identity: the Shift to Factory Production and Its Effect on Work and Wages in the English Textile Industries, 1760-1850’. His publications include: Paul Minoletti and others, Fiscal Management in Myanmar (Asian Development Bank ERD Working Paper Series, forthcoming) Paul Minoletti and others, Safe Migration Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Myanmar (ILO & MDRI-CESD, January 2015) Paul Minoletti and others, Towards Public Finance for Children in Myanmar: an Overview of Public Finance Trends 2011-12 to 2014-15 (UNICEF & MDRI-CESD, November 2014) Paul Minoletti, Women’s Participation in the Subnational Governance of Myanmar (MDRI-CESD & The Asia Foundation, June 2014) Paul Minoletti, ‘The Importance of Ideology: The Shift to Factory Production and Its Effect on Women’s Employment Opportunities in the English Textile Industries, 1760–1850’, Continuity and Change, 28 (2013), 121–46 Paul Minoletti, ‘The Transition to Factory Production in the English Wool Textile Industries: Individual and Family Desires for Labour Regulation, 1720-1850’, in Perry Gauci (ed), Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850 (Aldershot, 2011)