![]() ![]() Only around one-third of Myanmar’s people is connected to the national electricity grid, mainly in urban areas. ![]() Myanmar primary energy supply comes mostly from biomass and hydropower. Myanmar is also one of the countries most affected by climate change, being at high risk of natural disasters such as floods, cyclones, earthquakes and droughts. Nevertheless, as of July 2019, more than 240.000 people were still displaced in camps within the country, often with lack of access to basic services. ![]() In 2015 the Government promoted a Nation Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) which has paved the way for the ongoing peace process. Moreover, the country is facing a highly complex peace process between the National Government and dozens of Ethnic Armed Groups that over the decades had engaged a low intensity conflict in several areas of the country. Despite some recent progresses, one-third of Myanmar’s population lives in poverty, one of the highest rates in the subregion, with wide internal differences among regions, and between urban and rural areas. Myanmar currently ranks 148th out of 189 countries according to the Human Development Index (HDI). Myanmar is the second largest country in Southeast Asia, stretching from the Himalayas in the north to the beaches in the Bay of Bengal in the south, and home to a diverse multi-ethnic population of 54 million people.Īfter decades of isolation, in 2011 the country launched a set of political, social and economic reforms starting a complex transition that is still under way. ![]()
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