BURMA ECONOMIC DATA(DEBT/IMPORT/EXP

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BURMA'S ECONOMIC DATA
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(1) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES QUARTERLY
    SOURCE: ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE UNIT COUNTRY REPORTS (1997)

Burma Foreign Exchange Reserves (US$ million)
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Year      !    March !    June !   August ! November !
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1993      !   n/a    !  n/a    !  287.0   !  302.6   !
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1994      !    344.8 !   333.4 !  368.3   !   421.9  !
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1995      !    533.9 !   625.6 !  654.7   !   561.1  !
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1996      !    504.0 !   297.3 !  193.5   !   229.1  !
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1997      !    207.2 !   155.6 !  n/a     !   n/a    !
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(2) BURMA RESERVES YEAR-BY-YEAR
    SOURCE: WORLD BANK REPORT(1995)
            --POLICIES FOR SUSTAINING ECONOMIC REFORM

Burma International Reserves, pp-110
(End of period, in million of U.S. dollars)

                       89/90   90/91  91/92  92/93  93/94  94/95
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Net inter. reserves    414.9   260.3  245.9  260.3  228.2  315.3
Foreign Exchange       454.4   297.8  283.3  273.4  241.2  327.6
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(3) BURMA PRINCIPAL EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
    SOURCE: EIU, 4th Quarter 1997

Exports               $m            Imports                 $m
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Pulses& Beans         213.9         Machinery&Trans.Equip   268.4
Prawns                 82.2         Base metals&Manufactur  178.9
Rice                   60.1         Electrical Machinery    168.1
Fish& Fish Product     33.3         Edible Oils              81.0
Rubber                 29.3         Cement                   40.5
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Total incl. others    649.9         Total incl.others      1366.8
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(4) PRICES OF SELECTED ITEMS IN 1997
    SOURCE: EIU, 4th Quarter 1997.

Prices of selected items (in Kyat)

                          FEB        MAY       AUG      NOV
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2nd Quality Rice/pyi     85-90       100       120      120
4th Quality Rice/pyi     50-60      65-68     60-80    60-75

Catfish/viss            250-280    450-500   600-650  450-500
Shrimp/viss             180-250    450-500   200-300  400-550

Chicken/viss            500-600    550-700   650-850  600-650
Cooking oil/viss          300        350       400      440

Petrol/gallon           250-260    270-275     180      180
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1 viss=1.6kg, 1-pyi=2.1kg, 1-gallon=(3.8)Litres
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(5) BURMA EXTERNAL DEBT BY CREDITORS AS OF MARCH 31.1994
    SOURCE: WORLD BANK REPORT(1995), POLICIES FOR .....

Medium and Long-term External Public Debt
by Creditors as of March 31, 1994

                         Debt Outstanding     Percent
                        Kyat-m  (in US$-m)    Share
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BILATERAL LOANS ...... 21,702.9 (3617.2) .... 69.9%
                China     451.4
former Czechoslovakia     750.6
              Denmark     263.6
     (fmr.FRG)Germany   2,930.2 (488.4)        9.4%
                Japan  16,957.9 (2826.3)      54.6%
       Fmr.Yugoslavia     127.1
               Others     222.1

MULTILATERAL LOANS .... 7,076.7 (1179.5) .... 22.8%
      Asian Devl.Bank   2,192.6 (365.4)        7.1%
                  IDA   4,731.9 (788.7)       15.2%
                Other     151.9

SUPPLIERS' CREDITS .... 1,463.6 (244) ........ 4.7%
                Japan     566.4 (94.3)         1.8%
          Netherlands      19.9
       United Kingdom      17.8
       fmr.Yugoslavia      85.8
              Germany     456.3 (76.1)........ 1.5%
               Others     317.7

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS .. 800.3 (133.3) ...... 2.6%
               Austria    232.1
                France    387.6 (64.6)         1.2%
        United Kingdom    150.9
                 Other     29.7
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TOTAL                  31,043.2 (5173.9)
(excluding fund credit)
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(6) BURMA EXTERNAL DEBT AND ARREARS
    SOURCE: WORLD BANK REPORT (1995), POLICIES FOR SUSTAINING...

External Debt and Arrears (in millions of U.S.dolloars)

                      91/92    92/93    93/94   94/95
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Change in arrears     218.1    294.2    214.0   137.4
     Principal        199.0    224.0    207.9    96.7
     Interest          39.1     70.2      6.1    40.7

Stock of arrears

Total                 808.8   1103.2   1344.1   1481.5
     Principal        538.4    762.6    997.4   1094.1
     Interest         270.4    340.6    346.7    387.4

Bilateral             613.1    880.2   1050.3     ...
     Principal        409.2    593.4    768.0     ...
     Interest         203.9    286.8    282.3     ...

Private creditors     195.7    223.0    293.8     ...
     Principal        129.2    169.2    229.4     ...
     Interest          66.5     53.8     64.4     ...
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(data taken at) End of period. Change in arrears from balance of
payments and does not match change in arrears implied from
stacks data, due to valuation effects (IMF staff estimates)
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