Myanmar’s economy

People hold new kyat banknotes featuring a portrait of the late general Aung San, outside Myanmar Economic Bank in Nay Pyi Taw. Photo: AFP
15 September 2022
According to campaign group Progressive Voice, the Myanmar junta’s cruel disregard for...
Refugees from Myanmar rest in a basic shelter at Farkawn quarantine camp in India's eastern state of Mizoram near the Myanmar border on Thursday, after they fled across the border following attacks by Myanmar's military on villages. Photo: AFP
25 August 2022
With the Chinese entrenching themselves firmly in Myanmar’s economy and defence, Indian...
An exterior view of the Headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC, USA. Photo: EPA
28 January 2022
Myanmar’s economy and people continue to be severely tested by the ongoing impacts of the...
Workers make disposable surgical gown at a garment factory in Yangon, Myanmar, 02 May 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
21 November 2021
A combination of the COVID-19 pandemic, which broke out in 2020, and the military coup in...
People drive past closed business establishments during a silent protest against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar, 24 March 2021. Photo: EPA
08 May 2021
A survey conducted by 10 foreign chambers of commerce in Myanmar says the country’s...
(File) The headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is seen as the IMF and World Bank hold their Spring Meetings virtually due to the outbreak of COVID-19, known as coronavirus, in Washington, DC, April 15, 2020. Photo: AFP
11 July 2020
Although officially recorded cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar remain low, the social and...
Photo: Thura/Mizzima
27 June 2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic is dealing a severe blow to Myanmar’s economy.
Customers shop for food products at the City Mart supermarket in Yangon. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
17 June 2020
COVID-19 has adversely affected the overall economy and the private sector businesses in...
Residential and high rise commercial buildings are seen early evening in Yangon . Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
11 June 2020
Market-oriented economic policies adopted by Myanmar has accorded a prominent role for...
Myanmar nationals wearing facemasks amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus walk at the immigration post in Myawaddy near the Thai border on March 23, 2020, as thousands of people crossed from Thailand as the border crossings were due to close because of the growing pandemic. Photo: AFP
03 April 2020
Myanmar, like the entire world, is facing not only an unprecedented health crisis, but an...
A shipping container terminal is seen from the Yangon river during twilight in Yangon, Myanmar, 24 December 2019. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
25 December 2019
Myanmar’s economy is thriving but curbed by uncertainty ahead of next year’s general...
Sule in downtown Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
15 October 2019
Key takeaways from the latest (Oct 2019) World Bank ‘Asia Pacific Economic Update –...

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