Myanmar is a low-income country with a high poverty rate (37%). Rice, its main farm income source, generates livelihoods for over 50% of the population. People spend more than 60% of their income on ...

Myanmar’s army has warned aid workers not to release data showing millions are hungry. Fearing retaliation, aid groups have ...

A civil war in Myanmar has displaced millions, killed or maimed thousands more and left the country in poverty. Now China is flexing its muscle to protect interests in the region.

Amid escalating violence, poverty in Myanmar is more widespread than at any time in the last six years and labor shortages and a depreciating currency have made it harder to do business ...

Nearly half of Myanmar’s people now live in poverty, according to the World Bank. I feel a bit ashamed doing this job. It’s not that I enjoy this work – it’s just a necessity This calamity ...

Ongoing conflict has plunged nation into a 'multidimensional crisis' Cardinal Bo says at ordination of new bishop ...

MAY 2024: Development Reversed : Poverty and Labor Markets in Myanmar The Development Reversed : Poverty and Labor Markets in Myanmar presents provides the headline estimates of Myanmar’s poverty by ...

The war has also pushed more than half the population to live below the poverty, according to UN reports. “Let us dream of a ...