B ANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s economy is forecast to contract this year, the World Bank said Wednesday, as flooding and fighting take a severe toll nearly four years after the military ousted its ...

YANGON/GENEVA (Bloomberg): The World Bank expects Myanmar’s economy to contract in the current fiscal year, as elevated inflation, a slumping currency, and electricity and labor shortages ...

The assessment was led by the Government of Myanmar and jointly supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the European Union, the United Nations system, the World Bank and other ...

Past household monitoring efforts have been impeded by a lack of reliable official data. The World Bank's Myanmar Subnational Phone Surveys (MSPS) address this knowledge gap. A large sample size of ...

Myanmar's ruling military junta is seizing ... which stood at $66.8 billion in 2023, according to the World Bank. Just hours after the quake, the ruling junta declared a state of emergency in ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s economy is forecast to grow only 1% in the fiscal year that ends in March, the World Bank says, as conditions deteriorate with an escalation in fighting between the military ...

world organisations (including the World Bank, IMF, IFC and ADB), and the government to further develop Myanmar’s economy in terms of infrastructure, utilities, trade flows and imports. How important ...

As Myanmar’s economy opens to the world, it is set for a spurt of growth ... Myanmar has a population of 53 million people, of whom fewer than 10 percent have bank accounts, which offers great ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s economy is forecast to contract this year, the World Bank said Wednesday, as flooding and fighting take a severe toll nearly four years after the military ousted its elected ...