Description:
An Issue Paper of EarthRights International?s Burma Project.
Since 1988, when the Burmese military regime opened up the
country to foreign investment after a generation of isolation, the
country has seen no improvement on a whole range of indicators,
such as education, health and poverty, that investment is supposed
to help improve. Instead, investment has brought a doubling in the
size of the country?s army and major arms purchases that have in
turn furthered the repression. Investment has also been concentrated
in extractive industries, namely logging, gems and natural gas,
resulting in the selling off of Burma?s natural resources at alarming
rates. The stream of refugees and migrants out of the country --
fleeing the human and economic devastation brought about by the
regime -- is perhaps the clearest indicator that investment and
business engagement with Burma are not working.
Source/publisher:
Earthrights International
Date of Publication:
1999-10-00
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
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Language:
English