Statistics, profiles, general information etc. on Burma/Myanmar

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Description: Search for Myanmar
Source/publisher: ASEAN Secretariat
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
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Language: English
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Source/publisher: BBC
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Source/publisher: CIA
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Myanmar - Country profiles, provides a brief overview of main development indicators for Myanmar.
Source/publisher: UN ESCAP
2014-12-09
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
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Language: English
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Description: Many important reports, though some are simply general regional studies with refererences to Burma. A few dead links. 10 sectoral profiles - Health; Education; Gender; Agriculture; Trade and Finance; Governance; Environment; Poverty; Food security & emergencies; Aid and debt... Some key documents are missing - e.g. in Food Security, I did not see the People?s Tribunal report on militarisation and food scarcity in Burma. The " Key websites" links are especially weak. Try also the Advanced Search.
Source/publisher: Eldis
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
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Language: English
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Description: Geography: "Slightly smaller than Texas, Myanmar occupies the Thailand/Cambodia portion of the Indochinese peninsula. India lies to the northwest and China to the northeast. Bangladesh, Laos, and Thailand are also neighbors. The Bay of Bengal touches the southwest coast. The fertile delta of the Irrawaddy River in the south contains a network of interconnecting canals and nine principal river mouths."
Source/publisher: "infoplease"
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Updated regularly
Source/publisher: US Govt.
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
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Language: English
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Description: Country Data - 40 files... General Economic Development - 15 files ... History of Myanmar - 4 files... Investment and FDI - 11 files ... Other Sectors (non ag, rural dev, nrm) 8 files. Rule of Law - 7 files ... Statistical Yearbooks .....To access some files, users may have to take out a (free) subscription to MYLAFF at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mylaff
Source/publisher: MYLAFF
Date of entry/update: 2016-07-04
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Language: English
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Description: * 1 Origin and history of the name; * 2 History; * 3 Politics; * 4 Administrative Divisions; * 5 Geography; * 6 Economy; * 7 Demographics: o 7.1 Ethnicity; o 7.2 Language; o 7.3 Religion; o 7.4 Education; * 8 Culture; * 9 Miscellaneous topics; * 10 International rankings; * 11 Notes; * 12 External links: o 12.1 Government; o 12.2 Other.
Source/publisher: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Date of entry/update: 2005-04-25
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Language: English
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Description: Economy...Demographics...Energy...Land Use...Agriculture...Transportation...Transportation...Telecommunication...National Defense...Education...Foreign Trade...Foreign Trade...Tourism...Poverty...Environment...Food Security...World Rankings...Water...Research and Development
Source/publisher: KNOEMA via World Data Atlas
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
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Language: English
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Source/publisher: Myanmar Online Encyclopedia
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
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Language: Burmese
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Description: "The Myanmar Information System (MMSIS) is a web-based national database of statistics about Myanmar developed by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO). This national statistical database is developed through a "project of capacity building through IT based statistical data management in Myanmar" supported by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). The MMSIS is designed to provide statistical data and metadata to the public. It is meant to respond to the growing demands of data users for various statistics that describe socio-economic conditions in Myanmar, at national and sub-national levels, across various periods. At present, official statistics are produced by the CSO, as well as other statistical line agencies comprising the Myanmar National Statistical System (NSS). In addition, the private sector also collects statistical information. The MMSIS is an online ?one-stop shop? of statistical data services that enables users to easily download information in Excel format, both in Myanmar and in English. This feature makes it convenient and simple for data users to obtain their required statistical information needs."
Source/publisher: Central Statistical Organization (CSO)
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-21
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Language: English
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Description: Health profile...Nutrition...WHO collaboration...Risk factors...Mortality and burden of disease
Source/publisher: World Health Organization (WHO)
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
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Language: English
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Description: SEARCH FOR MYANMAR...Growth of the population per country in a historical perspective, including administrative divisions and principal towns: historical demographical data of the whole country; historical demographical data of the administrative divisions; historical demographical data of the urban centers.
Creator/author: Jan Lahmeyer
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Background: Despite multiparty elections in 1990 that resulted in the main opposition party winning a decisive victory, the military junta ruling the country refused to hand over power. Key opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient AUNG San Suu Kyi, under house arrest from 1989 to 1995, continues to have her activities restricted; her supporters are routinely harassed or jailed. General facts about the country.
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: "The World Bank has begun the process of re-engaging with the Government to support reforms that will benefit all of the people of Myanmar, including the poor and vulnerable. Comparable country data for Myanmar can?t be provided at this time..."
Source/publisher: World Bank
Date of entry/update: 2010-01-10
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Language: English
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Description: "June 29th 2020 marks 25 years since the New Mon State Party (NMSP) agreed a ceasefire with the then State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) military government in Burma (as the country was officially called until 1989). The essays collected here reflect on the experiences of Mon communities and the NMSP, before and after the ceasefire. The NMSP and the (ex-Communist Party of Burma) United Wa State Army are among the few “ceasefire groups” of the 1990s which still have ceasefires. Other ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) were either forced in 2010 to become Myanmar Army-controlled Border Guard Forces (BGFs: e.g. most units of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army) or Peoples Militias (pyithusit: e.g. the Pa-O National Organisation), or ceasefires broke down amid recrimination and return to largescale state violence against ethnic nationality communities (e.g. the Kachin Independence Organisation, whose 1994 ceasefire broke down after 17 years, in 2011). In contrast, other groups like the Karen National Union (KNU) continued the armed struggle for self-determination through the 1990s and 2000s, before agreeing a ceasefire with the U Thein Sein government in 2012. The NMSP ceasefire effectively broke down in 2010 under military government pressure to become a BGF. However, despite considerable tensions at the time, fighting did not break out again. The NMSP resisted pressure to transform into a BGF, and eventually confirmed a new bilateral ceasefire with the government in February 2012. Both the KNU (in 2015) and NMSP (in 2018) signed the multilateral Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). Unfortunately, the NCA has largely failed. The hoped-for “Political Dialogue” has stalled, with the Myanmar government and armed forces (Tatmadaw) unwilling to allow necessary sub-national (ethnic community) consultations, or to accept EAO demands for meaningful federalism. Security elements of the NCA (the Joint Monitoring Committee) have been largely dysfunctional and/or dominated by the Tatmadaw. While key EAOs (including the NMSP) continue to deliver governance administration and services (e.g. health and education) in their areas of control and authority, the peace process has yet to provide a credible vehicle for delivering “Interim Arrangements”, despite these being mandated by the NCA (Chapter 6, Article 25). The four essays collected here discuss different aspects of the NMSP’s long struggle for Mon self-determination in the context of the 1995 ceasefire. Martin Smith and Ashley South are writers and analysts, who have studied Mon history and society since before the ceasefire. Martin offers a historical-cultural and political account of the Mon armed struggle, which frames the essays to follow. Ashley presents an assessment of the NMSP’s achievements and challenges since the ceasefire. Nai Kasauh Mon and Nai Banya Hongsar are civil society activists and authors. Nai Kasauh Mon provides a critical analysis of the ceasefire years, highlighting both successes and failures. And Nai Banya Hongsar discusses the challenges that the NMSP and Mon movement continue to face in a country still entrapped within a cycle of conflict and ceasefire..."
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Source/publisher: Covenant Institute via Myanmar Information Management Unit
2020-06-29
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-27
Grouping: Individual Documents
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Format : pdf
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Source/publisher: MINISTRY OF NATIONAL PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2010-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-26
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 2.94 MB
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Description: People of concern: "The main groups of people of concern to UNHCR in Myanmar in 2015 include people without citizenship, IDPs, refugees, returnees and host communities. In 2012, violence in Rakhine State forced around 140,000 people to flee their homes.The majority live in government-designated IDP camps near the state capital, Sittwe, and in surrounding townships. In Kachin State and northern Shan State, more than 100,000 IDPs are displaced and in need of continued humanitarian assistance. They are living in camps in both government-controlled areas, and those under the control of non-state actors. UNHCR also assists the more than 810,000 people without citizenship in Myanmar. In south-eastern Myanmar, UNHCR supports communities hosting the estimated 230,000 IDPs living where the organization is operational. The Office is also preparing for the potential return of some of the 120,000 refugees from Myanmar currently living in temporary camps in Thailand. It is planning support for around 20,000 potential returnees in 2015, although conditions are not yet sufficient to support any organized voluntary return..."
Source/publisher: UNHCR
2015-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Source/publisher: "New Internationalist"
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Source/publisher: UNICEF
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: 2002 to 2005 UNHCR Statistical Yearbook Country Data Sheets.
Source/publisher: UNHCR
2005-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Figures on Topics Agriculture & Rural Development, Infrastructure, Aid Effectiveness, Labor & Social Protection, Economic Policy and External Debt, Poverty, Education, Private Sector, Energy & Mining, Public Sector, Environment, Science & Technology, Financial sector, Social Development, Health, Urban Development,
Source/publisher: World Bank
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Espanol, Francais, العربية
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Description: Bericht des Asien-Pazifik-Referenten der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung �ber die aktuelle Situation in Burma am Anfang des Jahres 2001. Kommentar zum Beginn des Dialogs zwischen Aung San Suu Kyi und SPDC im Oktober 2000 und Prognosen zu dessen m�glichem Verlauf.
Creator/author: Norbert von Hofmann
Source/publisher: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn / Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Bonn
2001-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-08-06
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Deutsch
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Source/publisher: Human Rights Documentation Unit, NCGUB
2001-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : htm htm
Size: 19.64 KB 6.04 KB
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