Burmas 52 million people are facing deepening poverty as a result of its military government’s “ill-informed and outdated socio-economic policies” and “uncompromising attitude” to ethnic minorities, says a confidential United Nations report.
In a bleak assessment, Charles Petrie, the UNs top official in Rangoon, said “increasingly arbitrary and widespread land confiscation” and the juntas agricultural policies were fuelling rural hunger and driving people from their communities in search of work.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
