Myanmar

Dear colleagues, The Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) is looking for training or communication materials on climate change and the private sector for an upcoming workshop. Should any of your programmes have developed or...

The attached article is a useful historical perspective on the recent ethnic conflict in Rakhine state.

A road less traveled By Pete Troilo U.K. Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell meets Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in the former's landmark visit to Myanmar in 2011. Photo by: U.K...

In the wake of excitement about the 1 April elections comes a surge of expectations about the economy. Politicians will have to handle that issue, because it will take years for economic reforms to be implemented and to have an...

Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, issued the following statement yesterday: "I congratulate the Government and people of...

In 1955, Simon Kuznets, a development economist, presented a theory of the relationship between income inequality in a country and the path to becoming a rich developed country. He argued that income inequality increased in the...

There are striking parallels between the economy of Vietnam in the 1990s and that of Myanmar today. Of course there are also many many differences, but the similarities suggest that there may be lessons for Myanmar to learn as it...