Economic Report on Burma 2004/05

Type Report
Title Economic Report on Burma 2004/05
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2005
Publisher Federation of Trade Unions-Burma (FTUB)
Country/State Myanmar
URL http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs12/FTUB-Economic-Report-Sein_Htay2004-05-red.pdf
Abstract
The objective of this report is to help the policy makers with an analysis of the
international sanctions effect and to try to explain the real current economic and social
conditions, impact on and Burma's urgent need to combat poverty. Moreover, also try
to present the relationship between macro economic situation such as economic
growth, foreign trade, state budget, inflation, employment, wages and the conditions
of freedom, equity, security and human dignity in Burma. In addition, to explain how
the Burmese generals and their crony drug lords exploit the Burmese economy, and
how the Burmese military has become the sole beneficiary of foreign direct investment
by setting up its own industries separately from the state enterprises since 1988. And
also would like to explain the impact on the military's confiscation of land, labor, crops
and capital assets or militarization on the whole economy.

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