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One of the most significant legal reforms undertaken to improve the investment climate in Myanmar has been the promulgation of the 2017 Myanmar Companies Law (MCL), which sets new criteria for company classification and is expected to help boost foreign direct investment inflows, which have slumped in recent years. After a lengthy delay, the...

Despite fierce domestic and international headwinds that have threatened to blow the Myanmar economy off course, executives who participated in the Business Barometer: Myanmar CEO Survey remain broadly confident about the investment climate in South-east Asia’s last great frontier market. Of the 100 respondents, 77% indicate their firm intends...

Our country is still in poverty and should develop every sector of the economy, which is why we must persevere with our efforts in all sectors. We are currently witnessing the transformation of an era and a system, in accordance with democratic principles. This is just the beginning of the transition. To make the process smooth and successful...

Decades of growth in trade and foreign investment have made economies around the world more interconnected and interdependent than ever before. The production of goods and, increasingly, the provision of services have become fractured across borders as corporations create and integrate into regional and global value chains. These trends have...

During the last three-quarters of a century Myanmar has undergone three major transitions: from colonial rule to independence in 1948, from parliamentary democracy to military dictatorship in 1962, and – in progress since 1988 – the transition from dictatorship to democracy. The first transition was the culmination of a hard and costly...