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This document summarizes how the REDD+ international safeguards and the Myanmar national social and environmental safeguards principles relate to women's rights.

Resource Governance Index 2013 issued by Natural Resource Governance Institute

Myanmar Mines Law stipulates types of permits for various mining activities. The Objectives of Myanmar Mines Law are: ◦ To implement the mineral resource policy of the Governm...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This country profile provides information on Myanmar's geography, climate and population, economy, agriculture and food security. Information is also provided on water resources...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

This paper aims to extract lessons from development partners’ engagement in Myanmar to offer suggestions for improved subnational governance and balanced regional development. T...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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...