Myanmar and ADB
In the Spotlight
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Continued Reforms Key to Myanmar's Economic Growth
Myanmar’s economy is projected to stay on a steady growth path over the next 2 years, supported by economic reforms, strong global growth, and higher foreign direct investment flows, according to a new ADB report.
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ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide 2018: Myanmar
This Bond Market Guide provides an update for current and future domestic, regional, and international market participants on the tremendous developments in the Myanmar securities market.
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Myanmar Announces ADB-Backed Reforms to Improve Business Climate
Along with the recently revised Myanmar Investment Law, the passage of the Myanmar Companies Law represents an important step toward creating an enabling business environment in the country.
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ADB Partners with Yoma Bank to Support SMEs in Myanmar
Yoma Bank signed an agreement with ADB's Trade Finance Program to provide guarantees of at least $10 million annually to support trade, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in Myanmar.
Emerging from decades of economic and political isolation, Myanmar is striving for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction. The country has strong potential for broad economic expansion, possessing abundant natural resources, a strategic location at the crossroads of Asia, a young population, and a sizable market with wide-ranging investment opportunities. Successful national elections, held in November 2015, represented an important milestone in Myanmar’s transition.
ADB operations in Myanmar focuses on building human resources and capacity, creating an enabling economic environment, and expanding access and connectivity.
Myanmar is a member of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).
Read the ADB and Myanmar fact sheet.
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South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation countries have to invest in improving connectivity to reduce transport times and increase reliability to major markets.
Trade Costs, Time, and Supply Chain Reliability
This health impact assessment framework serves as a guide to manage health risks and impacts in economic zones of the Greater Mekong Region and address transboundary issues associated with human migration.
A Health Impact Assessment Framework for Special Economic Zones in the Greater Mekong Subregion
GMS Countries to Strengthen Regional Cooperation on Food Safety, Agriculture
Senior agriculture officials from the six member countries of the GMS agreed to increase regional cooperation in food safety, boost the trading of climate-friendly agriculture products, and accelerate the implementation of the...
Projects in Myanmar
Approved/Active
- Enhancing ADB’s Support for Social Protection to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
- Third Greater Mekong Subregion Corridor Towns Development Project
- Mekong Tourism Innovation
- Capacity Building Program for Journalists in Developing Member Countries, 2018-2019
- Capacity Building Support to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Financial Integration: Phase II
Closed
- Greater Mekong Subregion Health Security Project
- Support for Sanitary and Phytosanitary Arrangements Development
- Strengthening Institutional Knowledge and Capacity of Customs Administrations for Trade Facilitation within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- Strengthening Trade Facilitation in the GMS through Partnerships with the Private Sector
- Asian Development Outlook 2015
