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Agricultural investment in Myanmar 04/02/2017 1 documents 48 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Accountability Agricultural investment Agriculture Land rights Smallholder agriculture Overview After years of international isolation, Myanmar is liberalizing its economy and seeking to attract foreign investment. But while foreign investment can play an important role in developing the country’s agriculture sector, in the current environment of limited transparency and accountability, an increase in agribusiness investments poses serious risks to the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits A Quick Guide to Public Financial Management in Myanmar 28/11/2016 1 documents 26 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Capacity building Civil society Participation Public financial manangement Social accountability Transparency Overview A quick guide to understanding how Public Financial Management (PFM) can deepen social accountability. View resource Discussion paper Political Gender Quotas: Key debates and values for Myanmar 04/06/2016 1 documents 24 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender quotas Women's political participation Women's rights Overview Women are increasingly visible in politics around the world but there is still a yawning gap in their political representation compared with men. In Myanmar, gender inequality and women’s rights are major challenges across economic, social and political spheres. Myanmar’s historic election in November 2015 saw a big increase in the numbers of women candidates […] View resource Issue briefing Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia 31/05/2016 2 documents 24 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Decent work Gender equality Gender justice Inequality Living wage Unpaid care Overview Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […] View resource Briefing paper A Case for Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Myanmar 24/03/2016 2 documents 9 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance Gender inequality Gender-responsive budgeting Governance Women's rights Overview A country’s budget can be a powerful lever for social transformation. A budget is the tool a government has to help it translate national resources into allocations which meet the needs and aspirations of its population, and set the country on a path to sustainable and equitable development. If a budget does not account for […] View resource Briefing paper Made in Myanmar: Entrenched poverty or decent jobs for garment workers? 09/12/2015 2 documents 28 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Garment industry Labour standards Overview In Myanmar, the garment industry is booming thanks to an upsurge in investment by international brands, but garment workers are facing tough conditions. According to new research from Oxfam and labour rights groups in Myanmar, garment workers are working up to 11 hours a day, six days a week, but remain trapped in poverty. Following […] View resource Discussion paper Deepening Democracy in Myanmar: What role for public financial management in deepening social accountability and promoting legitimate governance? 30/09/2015 1 documents 28 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Governance Peacebuilding Public financial manangement Overview This discussion paper outlines some of the challenges and opportunities for public financial management (PFM) reform in contributing to deeper social accountability and legitimate governance in the context of Myanmar’s wider decentralization and peace process. The paper poses a set of key questions for development actors to consider as they seek to support inclusive reform […] View resource Briefing paper Riding the Wave of Reform: Fast-tracking Myanmar’s future with good quality aid 21/01/2014 2 documents 46 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Education financing Health systems Inequality Investment Smallholder agriculture Social protection Taxation Transparency Overview In 2011, following decades of isolation, Myanmar embarked on an unprecedented reform process, raising hopes for a new democracy. These reforms have been welcomed by the international community with rising levels of aid. If properly handled and spent, aid offers an opportunity to harness Myanmar’s economic potential and make it work for poor people – […] View resource Issue briefing A New Dawn for Equitable Growth in Myanmar? Making the private sector work for small-scale agriculture 05/06/2013 1 documents 18 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Business Civil society Economic growth Labour standards Land rights Livelihoods Smallholder agriculture World Bank and IMF Overview A new wave of political reforms have set Myanmar on a road to unprecedented economic expansion, but without targeted policy efforts and regulation to level the playing field, the benefits of new investment will filter down to only a few, leaving small-scale farmers – the backbone of the Myanmar economy – unable to benefit from […] View resource Briefing note The Making of a Seoul Development Consensus: The essential development agenda for the G20 11/10/2010 5 documents 14 pages long Languages: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Overview When the G20 meets in Seoul in November 2010, it has a big choice to make. It can either retreat into a narrow focus on its own interests, or it can prove it is capable of genuine global leadership in the face of the interlinked economic, food, and climate change crises. The G20 must adopt […] View resource Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know