The Think Tank Summit to mark Myanmar-China Relations being held in Yangon yesterday. As a member of the ADB-Asian Thinktank Network, the Centre for Economic and Social Development is determined to promote evidence-based policymaking Read more… Any move to impose sanctions on Myanmar over the Rohingya crisis would be unlikely to produce positive change and could exacerbate the situation, a think tank has warned. ADB Asian Think Tank Development Forum CESD is proud to co-organize and host the 2019 ADB Think Tank Development Forum. Think Tank summit explores China-Myanmar relations The event was organized by the Myanmar Affairs Study Group, an extension of the Research and Information Division (Yangon) under the Ministry of Information, and the Institute of Myanmar Studies (IMS) of Yunnan University.
YANGON — A Tatmadaw-linked think-tank has hosted a panel discussion on Rakhine State featuring a controversial American activist whose anti-Muslim views have made him popular with Myanmar nationalists. The Global Go To Think Tank Index is the result of an international survey of over 1,950 scholars, public and private donors, policy makers, and journalists who helped rank more than 6,500 think tanks using a set of 18 criteria developed by the TTCSP. It was important to recognise that Myanmar’s political direction over the crisis has been set and would be extremely difficult to change, the International Crisis Group warned in report issued on December 7.

By MRATT KYAW THU | FRONTIER. As the 70th anniversary of relations between China and Myanmar approaches, the Think Tank Scholars Summit on Myanmar – China Relations in the New Era was held at … THINK 20 — The research and policy advice network for the G20 On 26-27 May 2019 the Think20 annual summit will be held in Tokyo. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), seen most visibly in Myanmar through a proposed “economic corridor” between the two countries, requires government and media scrutiny and regulations to ensure projects are done in a socially and environmentally responsible way, an international think-tank says. Myanmar needs further economic reforms ahead of AEC: think tank The AEC will come into effect at the end of this year, opening trade borders to form a single economic community. Yet Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia have been given until 2018 to prepare to join, to carry out additional reforms and catch up with the other countries.
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