He stressed, long before it became popular, the importance of export-orientation as the most useful "engine of growth".

[6]Following this he returned to Burma where he taught as an economics professor at the University of Rangoon, from 1945 to 1952.

[7] He was an economic adviser to the post-independent Burmese government's National Planning Department and the State Agricultural Bank's committee in the 1950s.

In that study, he argued that the existing import substitution policies commonly followed in Southeast Asia should be replaced by a new industrialization policy based on the expansion of manufactured exports.

[11] He participated in a seminar titled "An Agenda for Equitable and Sustainable Development for Myanmar" in Yangon on 11 February 2012 along with the Nobel prize winner and former World Bank chief economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Professor Ronald Findlay, a former professor at the Yangon Institute of Economics and now at Columbia University.