Myanmar's economy is expected to see growth by the end of the current fiscal year, but that growth still lags pre-coup levels. In a report released by the World Bank on Monday, the Southeast Asian ...

May 2024 This policy note provides a short overview of the recent history of the microfinance sector in Myanmar, tracing its rapid growth over the decade to 2020 and assessing its contribution to ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the country’s civil war increasingly disrupts trade and livelihoods. World Bank economists ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s economy grew 3% last year and will likely achieve the same pace in 2023, but still lags far behind where it stood before the army seized power in early 2021 ...

After nearly half a century of isolation, followed by five years of reform-driven growth, Myanmar’s economy is currently expanding at a record rate. As of late 2015 rising investment, growing exports ...

BANGKOK (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Myanmar farmers collect paddy seedlings from flooded fields to replant in Ayeyawaddy Division, outside Yangon, in August 2012. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images) The political and economic reforms ...