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2019 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger and Climate Change
The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that while the world has made gradual progress in reducing hunger on a global scale since 2000, this progress has been uneven. Hunger pe...
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Malnutrition Gap as a New Measure of Child Malnutrition : A Global Application
“Leaving no one behind” is an overarching principle of the Sustainable Development Goals. Many countries are prioritizing resources for those who are furthest behind. Existing m...
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What Mekong Delta Communities Can Teach Us About Access to Safe Water
This article discusses the water situation in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. It discusses water quality, water sources, current research, educational gaps and how communities respond t...
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BTI 2016: Myanmar country report
The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) analyzes and evaluates the quality of democracy, a market economy and political management in 129 developing and transition...
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An Analysis of Poverty in Myanmar: Trends between 2004/05 and 2015
The Myanmar Poverty and Living Conditions Survey (MPLCS) was conducted in early 2015 on a nationally representative sample of households. The survey was undertaken through a c...
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Land tenure data in Thailand
This article reviews land tenure Systems and land tenure data in Thailand in order to illustrate the importance of such information for policy-making. The article also discusses...
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Beneficial Ownership: Tackling Hidden Company Ownership Through Myanmar's EITI Process
This paper focuses on a new and ground-breaking provision of EITI: a requirement for the identities of the real owners – the ‘beneficial owners’ – of extractive industry compani...
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Myanmar Annual Hospital Statistics Reports
This report is intended to provide information regarding reporting status of the public and private hospitals, availability and utilization of hospital services, performance of ...
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Fiscal Decentralization in Myanmar: Towards a Roadmap for Reform
This discussion paper by Hamish Nixon and Cindy Joelene intends to inform the wider discussion about how best to proceed with fiscal decentralization in Myanmar. Its goal is to ...
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Lords of Jade
Myanmar’s jade business may be the biggest natural resource heist in modern history. The sums of money involved are almost incomprehensibly high and the levels of accountability...
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Myanmar Oil & Gas Sector Wide Impact Assessment
The Oil & Gas Sector-Wide Impact Assessment (SWIA), developed by the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) in partnership with its co-founders, the Institute of Human R...
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Jade: Myanmar's "Big State Secret"
Drawing on over a year of investigations, this report shows for the first time how a multi-billion dollar trade in one of the planet’s most precious gemstones is tightly control...
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Sharing the Wealth: A Roadmap for Distributing Myanmar’s Natural Resource Revenues
This discussion paper outlines options available under the current legal structure to help the new leadership fulfill its commitment to decentralize natural resource revenues. I...
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Myanmar Health Statistics 2010
This publication attempts to provide, in a simple and user-friendly way, the most sought-after health and health related information to a wide-ranging array of audience, both in...
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Gender (in)Equality in the Governance of Myanmar: Past, Present, and Potential Strategies for Change
This research report discusses the importance of gender equality of participation in governance, past and currents levels of participation in Myanmar, and current actions being ...
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Militias in Myanmar
This report provides the historical background and evolution of militias over time, offers a typology of the different types of militias operating in the country, and reflects o...
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Gender Equality and Women's Rights in Myanmar: A Situation Analysis Report
This gender situation analysis spotlights women’s activities and shows the way for their maximum contribution in the socioeconomic development of Myanmar through newly installed...
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The gardener and the fisherman in globalization: The Inle Lake (Myanmar), a region under transition
As this literature portrait shows, Inle Lake has been a research object for many years, but it has never been studied in conjunction with the structural dynamics that have been...
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The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census Census Report Volume 2-B The Union Report: Occupation and Industry
This report “Census Report Volume 2-B: The Union Report: Occupation and Industry” is a supplement to The Union Report, Volume 2. It contains information on activity status, occu...
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EITI Report for the Period April 2013-March 2014 Oil, Gas and Mining Sectors
This report summarises information about the reconciliation of fiscal and non-fiscal revenues from the extractive sector in Myanmar as part of the implementation of the Extracti...