Contents: * Preliminary Pages * Editors� note * Contributors * 1: Overview * Political Update * 2: The dramatic events of 2007 in Myanmar: domestic and international implications * 3: Internal dynamics of the Burmese military: before, during and after the 2007 demonstrations * Economic Update * 4: Myanmar�s GDP growth and investment: lessons from a historical perspective * 5: Migrant-worker remittances and Burma: an economic analysis of survey results * 6: Myanmar�s economic relations with China: who benefits and who pays? * Education and Health Update * 7: Myanmar education: challenges, prospects and options * 8: Evolving education in Myanmar: the interplay of state, business and the community * 9: The (re)-emergence of civil society in areas of state weakness: the case of education in Burma/Myanmar * 10: Islamic education in Myanmar: a case study * 11: Contemporary medical pluralism in Burma * 12: Health security among internally displaced and vulnerable populations in eastern Burma * Index