"...The list of high-profile foreigners heading to Burma to engage and advise the country?s military regime is about to get longer. The latest due to join that flow is Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz. The former chief economist of the World Bank will fly into Burma, or Myanmar as it is also known, on Dec. 14 for a mission aimed to examine and improve the South-east Asian nation?s rural economy, says Noeleen Heyzer, head of a United Nations regional body based in Bangkok. ?He will share his ideas on what kind of economic decision making is critical for growth in the rural economy and poverty reduction,” adds the executive secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). ?He will be there for a couple of days.”..."