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Policy Challenges in Implementing National Development Plans Myanmar
This article provides an annual update of Myanmar economic trends and policy challenges. Policy challenges of implementing the national plan in Myanmar focuses on following poin...
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Doing Business 2018 Reforming to Create Jobs
Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The report provides quant...
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MDG Country Progress Snapshot: Myanmar
The MDG Country Progress Snapshot provides an overview of the progress achieved at country level since 1990 towards the Millennium Development Goals. The snapshot is intended ma...
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The Myanmar Gemstone Law
The objectives of this Law are as follows:- (a) to establish and develop a hundred percent gemstone andss jewellery market within the country in respect of gemstone produced in...
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AQUASTAT မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုလုပ်ငန်းအကျဉ်း
This country profile provides information on Myanmar's geography, climate and population, economy, agriculture and food security. Information is also provided on water resources...
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FAOSTAT country profile - Myanmar
A profile of Myanmar by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Data is provided on economic indicators; food, nutrition and food security; population and l...
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World Mining Data 2017
Data taken from the World Mining Congress on production and value of minerals mined in the Lower Mekong in 2014. Compiled for an interactive visualization used on the OD Mekong ...
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Overlooked and Undermined: Communities Affected by Jade Mining Operations in Myanmar, and the Responsibilities of Companies Providing Machinery
Since early 2000s, the dramatically increased use of heavy mining machinery in Myanmar has enabled the extraction of minerals at an unprecedented speed. Impacts on local communi...
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Development or Destruction? The Human Rights Impacts of Hydropower Development on Villagers in Southeast Myanmar
Myanmar needs to acknowledge and address a number of salient concerns if it going to use hydropower to meet its future electricity needs. Most of Myanmar’s abundant hydropower r...
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Catalyzing Subnational Development in Myanmar
This paper aims to extract lessons from development partners’ engagement in Myanmar to offer suggestions for improved subnational governance and balanced regional development. T...
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Comments on Draft report on Myanmars National REDD+ Strategy
In March, 2018, the Myanmar REDD+ program released its National REDD+ strategy draft report. Forest Trends has provided the following comments to the report authors in hopes tha...
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Myanmar Economic Bulletin: Volume 1, Number 1
Welcome to the first issue of the Myanmar Economic Bulletin, the flagship publication of the Myanmar Development Institute (MDI). A think-tank established by the notification fr...
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Promoting Transparency and Monitoring of Contracts
Members of parliament play a key role in monitoring the implementation of oil, gas, and mineral contracts. Public disclosure of such contracts is a critical prerequisite for p...
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Alternatives to Land Grabbing: Smallholder Engagement in Commodity Booms in Southeast Asia
Given the widespread smallholder impulse to engage in commodity booms in Southeast Asia and the potential for this engagement to offer a more inclusive development pathway than ...
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A New Dawn for Equitable Growth in Myanmar? Making the Private Sector Work for Small-Scale Agriculture
The new wave of political reforms have set Myanmar on a road to unprecedented economic expansion, but, without targeted policy efforts and regulation to even the playing field, ...
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Agribusiness Models for Inclusive Growth in Myanmar: Diagnosis and Ways Forward
Myanmar is at a crossroad. Given high levels of landlessness and land inequality and low productivity of most small and medium-scale farmers (SMFs), the country is searching for...
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License_Pyi Daung Su Thar Co., Ltd._YMT-257
Approval for small-scale gold extraction issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation for the period from 4 Dec 2016 to 17 Jan 2017. But EMP is pre...
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Aung Htun Linn Shein Win Mining & Refinery Co., Ltd._Initial Environmental Examination Reports
These Initial Environmental Examination Reports are prepared to extend the period of each license of gold extraction in site: SGU-4A and SGU-4B in Pyin Oo Lwin District, Mandala...
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Shwe Soon Thaik Co., Ltd.
The company is set up in 2013 and this Environmental Management Plan is prepared to extend the license period- 1 year, for gold extraction at site: KWM-109 in Myitkyina Town, Ka...
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Five-Year Strategic Plan for Health Information System in Myanmar (2011-2015)
The Health Information System Strategic Plan (2011-2015) is the first strategic plan for Health Information System in Myanmar. Before that all activities conducted for strengthe...