Mr Sudhir Shetty saw a transformed Myanmar when he returned to Yangon last month to speak at a World Bank event as its chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific. In an earlier role, 20 years ago, Shetty was the World Bank’s senior country economist for Myanmar. He spoke to Frontier’s Kyaw Phone Kyaw.
Rural development programmes in Myanmar have lagged after the 2021 coup, recalling the neglect, incompetence, corruption and isolation of past military regimes.
BY Frontier
