Myanmar

Bordered by?

India and Bangladesh

Uninterrupted coastal border with what?

Southern coastal border with Bay of Bengal, and Andaman Sea

Capital and since when?

Naypiydaw since 2005

What climate

Tropical

HDI

0.556

Where are the himalayas

north

population without clean water?

19.4%

Population without electricity

48%

Infant mortality rate

42.2

Economic growth

6.3%

Health expenditure of GDP

2.3%

GNI and what year

$25.7 billion in 2023

Life expectancy

70 years

Birth rate

18.2 per 1000

1962

General Ne win takes control with coup d’etat

until 1974

1974

Burma Socialist Programme Party established

1988

8888 uprising led by students due to poverty

Responses by other countries to 8888 uprising

some western countries and Japan cut aid

India condemned oppression, closed borders, and set up refugee camps

1990

Aung San Suu Kyi wins election, results voided by government 

2008

Cyclone Nargis causes over $10 billion of damage

2009

Kokang incident

batte between ethnic minorities and military

Result of Kokang incident

37,000 flee to China

37 killed

47 wounded

2011

EU impose sanction

What sanctions did the EU impose

banned imports

suspended aid

freeze economic resources

embargo on arms

2012

Aung San Suu Kyi elected to parliament

2015

general election allows Aung San Suu Kyi to assume role of state counsellor

2022

Coup d’etat again, Suu Kyi arrested, sentence of 27 years

Present day situation

humanitarian demand increased by twenty-fold.

3.5 million displaced

Which ethnic minority segregated

Rohinga Muslims

What type of rule is it

military

What rights is there a lack of?

human

Why is there civil unrest

The military government cannot be overcome by the people

Averge farm size and what does this suggest

2.7 hectares

More subsistence farming less mechanisation

What are the soils like

Clay rich

Water logged in wet conditions

Lots of fertile soil surrounding south-flowing rivers

What percent of rubies extracted from Myanmar

90%

What percent of cultivated land makes rice

80%

What percent of national food products of rice

97%

What position is Myanmar in producing natural gas

10th largest producer of natural gas

Disease problem?

Mosquitoes spread dengue fever, malaria, which affect livestock and humans

Largest producer of what?

opium

What is MDG 1?

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

How successful at eradicating extreme poverty and hunger

Undernourishment down by 40%, employment up by only 0.2% from 2000 - 2015

MDG 2 achieving universal primary education

Literacy rate increased by 1.75% (15-24 years) but only 84% complete primary school not 100%

What is MDG 3

Promote gender equality and empower women

How successful at Promote gender equality and empower women?

Few seats held by women in parliament.

Average of 6

What is MDG 4

Reduce child mortality

How successful at reducing child mortality

Under 5 mortalities decreased from 110 per 1000 to 50 per 1000

What is MDG 5

Improving maternal mortality

How successful at improving maternal mortality

Went from 300 deaths per 100,000 live births to 175 deaths per 100,000 live births

What is MDG 6

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

How successful at combatting HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

0.8% of people age 15-49 have HIV is both 2000 and 2015

 fluctuations in TB outbreaks 

What is MDG 7?

Ensure environmental sustainability

How successful at ensuring environmental sustainability?

Con emissions increase 4-fold.

10% of forest land cleared in 15 years

What was MDG 8?

Global partnership for development

How successful at global partnership for development

Aida and assistance increased to $1.5 billion In 2014 to 15

Huge development in cellular networks with higher internet penetration

What percentage of Mynanmar’s exports are mined or extracted

63%

What percent of Myanmar’s GDP made by jade and what year

48% in 2014

What precious stone is best in Myanmar?

jade

What is the problem in exporting raw materials and commodities

Susceptible to fluctuations in supply and demand

What is the main thing that Myanmar exports

raw materials and commodities

What proportion of Myanmar’s imports does China account for

44$

Why China like jade?

Believes it brings luck and prosperity

What percent of Myanmar’s exports does China account for?

41%

Myanmar is in trade ______

deficit

What is trade deficit

When the value of imports exceeds the value of imports

Companies abuse ________ while ________ and _____ ______ control _________

workers, mining, army generals, companies

How many people displace dy by conflict near the mines, and in what state

100,000 people

Kachin

_______ of _____ migrants coming to work

1000s, illegal

What percent of exports mined or extracted 

63%

Who took over mines

Military junta took over and ransacked mines

How much value of jade mined in 2014

$31.4 billion

What training does Coca-Cola do

1000s of hours of vehicular fleet training, anti-bribery, and corruption training

What is good about TNCs

Bring capital, tech, and skills into the country – inward investment

When first Coca Cola bottling plant opened in myanmar

2012

Name of female empowerment schemes

Achieve your Best Self – female empowerment to Tara in female leaders

How much did Coca Cola invest

$200 million

How any directly employed by Coca Cola

1393

How many jobs hope to made by Coca COla

22,000 over 5 years

Swan Yi project

3 year programme in 2012, empower 25,000 women, teach business skills and money-saving

Economic issues of Coca - Cola

leakage – profits leave country to shareholder outside host

Highly paid position taken by foreign workers instead of locals

Environmental Coca-Cola issues

Local pollution controls weak, but building water treatment plant

Social issues With Coca-Cola

Can interfere with politics

Harsh working conditions and less safety,

Safety Heroes

improve health and safety

Employed from within the company so perhaps unreliable as won’t speak against own company

What population of Myanmar risk of malaria

60%

What percent of target households own at least one insecticide treated net and how many distributed in total

88%

29500

Change in malaria deaths and the years?

3.5 per 1000

2.4 per 1000

How much does Myanmar owe China?

$2 billion

Paris Club Agreement

cancel 60% of Myarnmar’s debt

Myitsone dam

improve relationships, infrastructure, cheap and renewable electricity and more employmen

What increases cost

Company borrowed money has interest

How much Myanmar owe China as a result of the dam

$800 million so concede projects

Myanmar health budget

$600 million

HOw many families relocated for dam

300

Asia World how much ownand what is it

Myanmar-based conglomerate has 5% profit

What percent of electricity guaranteed

10%

What percent stake in the dam and what can it earn

15% stake earns $186 million over 50 years

What garden towers made from

150L plastic barrels with holdes

Role of earthworms in gfarden towers

fertilise the spoil

Garden towers take less ______

space

How much less water do garden towers use

90%