An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
In major cities such as Yangon and Mandalay, military recruiters are known to target poor and vulnerable boys who they threaten, drug or tempt with promises of well-paying jobs.
Frontier speaks to Sudhir Shetty, the World Bank chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific, about Myanmar's new Investment Law.
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