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   Guidance Note on Land Issues (Myanmar)

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   May, 2010

   Myanmar

   land policies

   property rights

   land-use planning

   land governance

   land administration

   land rights

   land law

   land tenure systems

   This note is meant to serve as a quick reference for local authorities and NGOs to
   acquire an understanding of relevant land laws and the context of land-use in
   Myanmar. All land and all natural resources in Myanmar, above and below the ground,
   above and beneath the water, and in the atmosphere is ultimately owned by the Union of
   Myanmar. Although the socialist economic system was abolished in 1988, the existing Land
   Law and Directions were not changed in parallel, and thus these are still in use today in