Two detailed studies of Burma's economic health paint a grim picture on the eve of promised parliamentary elections later this year. The first, by a US Congress-funded think tank called the United States Institute of Peace, says the country is suffering from "misguided economic policies" which have "deprived the economy of the basic foundations for sustainable improvements." Most of the data published by the military regime is unreliable or simply a fiction, the study says. The other, from Australia, warns that Burma's economy is being pillaged by the military regime and its business cronies and is "unbalanced, unstable and largely without the institutions and attributes necessary to achieve transformational growth."
Two Grim Burma Studies
Two Grim Burma Studies
Two Grim Burma Studies
Two detailed studies of Burma's economic health paint a grim picture on the eve of promised parliamentary elections later this year. The first, by a US Congress-funded think tank called the United States Institute of Peace, says the country is suffering from "misguided economic policies" which have "deprived the economy of the basic foundations for sustainable improvements." Most of the data published by the military regime is unreliable or simply a fiction, the study says. The other, from Australia, warns that Burma's economy is being pillaged by the military regime and its business cronies and is "unbalanced, unstable and largely without the institutions and attributes necessary to achieve transformational growth."
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