The world must do more to slam shut the junta’s coffers with smartly targeted sanctions against the banks and businesses that ...

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 ...

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 ...

which is based on the United Nations World Population Prospects report. The World Bank has estimated Myanmar's population at 50.7 million in 2014.

Myanmar's military deposed the elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. She remains in jail and the country is mired in a brutal civil war.

Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, and the country’s economy, already hammered by the pandemic, started to buckle.

Myanmar's power crisis has worsened steadily since 2021, the World Bank said last year, blaming ageing power plants, the gas shortage, damage to the national grid, lack of spare parts, and weak ...

A World Bank report found that 17 percent of Myanmar firms surveyed had invested in off-grid solar power. Zaw Htay Aung, the director of Sun Solar Myanmar Company, said he has seen a rise in the ...

The census figure is lower than a estimated 2024 population of 54.5 million from the World Bank, which is based on the United Nations World Population Prospects report. The World Bank has estimated ...