Economy of Kachin State

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Description: This document provides a basic introduction to Kachin State inculding information about climate; population; inhabitants; religion and dialects; organization of districts; townships and villages; sown acreage and crops produced; traditional cultural festivals and TV retransmission stations.
Source/publisher: MODiNS.NET
Date of entry/update: 2005-06-04
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Language: English
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Topic: Belt and Road initiative, BRI, China, China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, CMEC, debt trap, economic zone, Human Rights, Kachin State, land grabs, Myitkyina, Myitkyina Economic Development Zone, neo-colonialism, property rights, Yunnan Tengchong Heng Yong Investment Company
Topic: Belt and Road initiative, BRI, China, China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, CMEC, debt trap, economic zone, Human Rights, Kachin State, land grabs, Myitkyina, Myitkyina Economic Development Zone, neo-colonialism, property rights, Yunnan Tengchong Heng Yong Investment Company
Description: "The Kachin State government is planning to sign an agreement next month on the establishment of a China-backed economic zone, paving the way for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project. Under the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) agreement, which is also a part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s grand BRI vision, Kachin State signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Yunnan Tengchong Heng Yong Investment Company (YTHIC) in May 2018 for implementation of the Myitkyina Economic Development Zone. The project, also known as the Namjim Industrial Zone, is 25 km from Myitkyina, the Kachin capital. “We are expected to sign an agreement next month,” the Kachin State chief minister, Dr. Khet Aung, told The Irrawaddy. “Currently, we are finalizing detailed negotiations and a full master plan from the Chinese company.” YTHIC and the Myitkyina zone committee, formed by the Kachin State government, are expected to build the massive site on approximately 19 sq. km along the historic Ledo Road. The road was built during World War II so the Allies could supply Chinese troops fighting the Japanese. It linked Ledo, in Indian Assam, and Kunming in China’s Yunnan Province..."
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Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2019-10-07
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-09
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Description: Conclusion: "After the beneficiary baseline survey, KBC found that beneficiaries count a lot on food aid (cash for curry) as a regular source of income (for an average of 39,750 MMK per month and per family). 47% of them have no other source of income. However, 39% of the beneficiaries work to have a permanent income for an average of monthly income of 65,000 MMK. The other 13% have a more or less regular source of income based on daily work or agricultural labor at some specific period of the year (from 1 to 3 months per year). In average, they earn 33,600 MMK per month worked. Globally, the households earn in average around 65,000 MMK per month but the median value is more around 49,000 MMK a month. Regarding expenditure on food, bigger families do spend more in general in order to cover every members? needs. On average, one household spends 29,367 MMK a month for food, which corresponds to 5,563 MMK per person. Finally, regarding non-food expenditures, we notice that these expenses remain in majority for basic needs like health, education, clothes but also for social events which accounts for the biggest percentage, and investments. In average, households have spent 58,109 MMK in non-food expenditures the month before the survey. For 69% of the households, this amount is similar to any other month. For these 69%, an amount of 18,714 MMK was spent for non-food expenditure."
Source/publisher: USAID and Solidarites International
2015-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-07-19
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Language: English
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Description: Stories of murder and mayhem abound in Kachin State?s casino town... "Welcome to the Macao of northern Burma: Maija Yang, once a backward Kachin State border village but now a bustling boom town with more than a dozen casinos catering to Chinese gamblers sidelined by restrictions in their own country. The frontier-style administration of Maija Yang, 160km north of the Kachin capital Myitkyina, is effectively in the hands of the Kachin Independence Organization, which is said to earn around 8.5 million yuan (more than US $1 million) annually from the Chinese-run casinos. Prostitution, drugs and alcohol probably net the town even more money. The first of the casinos was built four years ago under a KIO development program originally intended to provide local people, traditionally reliant on the opium trade, with an alternative source of income. The high-minded plan went awry, however—the casinos employ mostly Chinese staff, and the drugs problem is only getting worse..."
Creator/author: Khun Sam
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 7
2005-07-00
Date of entry/update: 2006-04-30
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Language: English
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Description: This article on Kachin State was originally printed in the New Light of Myanmar on February 1st, 2005, as part of a series leading up to and immediately following the celebration of Union Day on the 12th of February. The original text along with accompanying pictures and tables can also be found in the archive of the print edition of NLM in the On-line Burma Library at http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs2/NLM2005-02-01.pdf An article summing up recent developments in the whole country with accompanying statistical tables was published in NLM on Union Day, 2005, and is available at http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs2/NLM2005-02-12.pdf.
Creator/author: Thiha Aung
Source/publisher: SPDC (News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar)
2005-02-01
Date of entry/update: 2005-08-08
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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