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Cultivating Inequality
By DAVID SCOTT MATHIESON
JULY, 2008 - VOLUME 16 NO.7
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Some of the econometric sections are tough going, but if you’re a professional or academic bean counter, you will find it and the accompanying analyses illuminating.
As post-cyclone reconstruction begins in the shattered communities of the Irrawaddy delta and around Rangoon, studies such as this light the way in understanding, and hopefully, solving, Burma’s problem-plagued food production sector.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization has estimated more than $200 million is needed to bring the more than 30 affected townships back to life, including Thongwa. As inflation soars and poverty levels worsen in Burma, reconstruction must also go hand in hand with long-postponed reforms that make rural people’s lives equitable.
David Scott Mathieson is a Burma consultant for New York-based Human Rights Watch.
As post-cyclone reconstruction begins in the shattered communities of the Irrawaddy delta and around Rangoon, studies such as this light the way in understanding, and hopefully, solving, Burma’s problem-plagued food production sector.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization has estimated more than $200 million is needed to bring the more than 30 affected townships back to life, including Thongwa. As inflation soars and poverty levels worsen in Burma, reconstruction must also go hand in hand with long-postponed reforms that make rural people’s lives equitable.
David Scott Mathieson is a Burma consultant for New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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