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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2013
    Myanmar

    This article traces the revenue category and legal concept of the Waste Land in Burma/Myanmar
    from its original application by the British colonial apparatus in the nineteenth century, to its
    later use in tandem with Burma Army counterinsurgent tactics starting in the 1960s, and finally
    to the 2012 land laws and current issues in international investment. This adaptation of colonial
    ideas about territorialization in the context of an ongoing civil war offers a new angle for under-

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2013
    Myanmar

    Burma's dramatic turn-around from 'axis of evil' to western darling in the past year has been imagined as Asia's 'final frontier' for global finance institutions, markets and capital. Burma's agrarian landscape is home to three-fourths of the country's total population which is now being constructed as a potential prime investment sink for domestic and international agribusiness.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2013
    Myanmar

    ... This document reports on a study carried out to assess the value of the forest sector to Myanmar's economy, in order to justify and identify niches for developing forest-based payments for ecosystem services (PES) and other mechanisms that can be used to generate financing for forest conservation.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2013
    Myanmar

    Bridging the HLP Gap -
    The Need to Effectively Address Housing, Land and Property Rights
    During Peace Negotiations and in the Context of Refugee/IDP Return:
    Preliminary Recommendations to the Government of Myanmar,
    Ethnic Actors and the International Community.....Executive Summary:
    "Of the many challenging issues that will require resolution within the peace processes currently underway
    between the government of Myanmar and various ethnic groups in the country, few will be as complex, sensitive

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2013
    Myanmar

    ... Extremely rapid growth in Chinese imports of ‘redwood’, ‘rosewoods’ or ‘Hongmu’ timbers from Myanmar in the past two years is directly driving increased illegal and unsustainable logging, posing a real threat to governance, the rule of law and the viability Myanmar’s dwindling forests. EIA research shows that, based on current trends, the two most targeted Hongmu species in
    Myanmar - tamalan and padauk - could be logged to commercial extinction in as little as three years.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2013
    Myanmar

    Testimony of Marco Simons to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission:
    "This submission describes the emerging landscape as U.S. businesses reengage in Burma and
    identifies specific human rights concerns associated with current and prospective corporate
    activities in Burma (Myanmar). A number of companies, including General Electric, have
    already invested in Burma, and U.S. oil supermajors are considering participation in upcoming
    auctions for oil blocks. Increased foreign investment has already been linked to large-scale

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2013
    Myanmar

    The new wave of political reforms have set Myanmar on a road to
    unprecedented economic expansion, but,
    without
    targeted policy
    efforts and
    regulation to
    even 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

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2013
    Myanmar

    Inadequate land laws have opened rural Myanmar to rampant land grabbing by unscrupulous, well-connected businessmen who anticipate a boom in agricultural and property investment. If unchecked, the gathering trend has the potential to undermine the country's broad reform process and impede long-term economic progress.

  9. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2013
    Myanmar

    The reform process in Burma/Myanmar by the quasi-civilian government of President Thein Sein has raised hopes that a long overdue solution can be found to more than 60 years of devastating civil war...

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