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Publication - Project Report
Uptake and impacts of mobile apps for improving state effectiveness
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Project
Informal taxation and revenue mobilisation in Myanmar
Taxation is essential to provide governments with the funds needed to deliver the public goods and services necessary for the social and economic development of a country. However, in Myanmar, the levels of formal taxation are among the lowest in the world, according to the IMF. These low levels are the subject of regularly commentary in the public sphere, often accompanied...
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Publication - Project Report
Informal payments and contributions by businesses in Myanmar
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Publication - Policy paper
Estimating a social discount rate for Myanmar
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Project
Evaluation of National Community Driven Development Project (NCDDP) Myanmar
Since January 2013, the Department of Rural Development (DRD) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) has been implementing the National Community Driven Development Project (NCDDP) with support from the World Bank and other development partners (DPs). The objective of the project is to enable poor rural communities to benefit from improved access...
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Publication - Country study
State fragility in Myanmar: Fostering development in the face of protracted conflict
This country study is published by the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development.
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Blog post
Government decentralisation and reform in Myanmar’s roads sector
Myanmar is in the midst of an historic shift towards a more democratic and responsive government. In a radical departure from a highly centralised structure, the 2008 Constitution established 14 sub-national governments, with partially elected parliaments. In addition to their devolved political authority, a range of finance and administrative functions were ceded to this...
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Event
Workshop on programmes for poverty alleviation and inclusive growth: International and Myanmar experience
Economic growth by itself does not reduce poverty. Experience of many developing countries underscores the important role of targeted programmes in poverty alleviation and in making economic growth more inclusive. The Myanmar Development Institute (MDI), International Growth Centre (IGC), and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) are co-hosting an event on programmes for...
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Publication - Project Report
Where the rubber hits the road: A review of decentralisation in Myanmar and the roads sector
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Project
Support to ethnic armed organisations' Economic Working Committee for peace negotiations
Sustainable peace arrangements should be built upon sound economic principles. This project supported those groups who have so far signed up to Myanmar’s National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) to identify common economic issues throughout the country’s regions, and how they can best be addressed by both national and regional governments. For such an ethnically...