Military-backed President Thein Sein addresses the World Economic Forum in 2013 (AFP)

Why the West’s state-building practices in Myanmar are part of the problem

Western-led state-building initiatives in Myanmar have long promoted a neoliberal model of development and democratisation that has inadvertently benefited the military over everyone else in Myanmar.

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