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Burma ranks 118 in UN Human Development Report
July 12, 1001
Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com)
Burma has moved up from low human development to medium human
development in four years and ranked at 118th on the Human Development
Index of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) out of 162
countries.
The Index, which measures the overall achievements of a country in three
basic dimensions of human development, is based on longevity,
educational attainment and ability to buy basic goods and services.
Burma, which is near the bottom of the Medium Human Development, is
above some of its Asian partners. Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, which fall
in the low human development category, are slotted at 127, 129 and 130
respectively. However, Burma is far below that of other South East Asian
countries. Thailand is ranked at 66, Malaysia at 56, Philippines at 70,
Indonesia at 102 and Viet Nam at 101.
Norway leads the 162 countries on the index while Sierra Leone
languishes at the bottom of the index. It is a jump-up for Burma, which
was ranked 131 out of 175 countries and fell in the category of "low
human development" by the HDR report in 1997.
In the Human Poverty Index, Burma is ranked at 43 while Thailand at 21.
Burma has Adult literacy rate of 84.4% while India has 56.5% and
Bangladesh 40.8%.
The Human Development report 2001 "Making New Technologies Work for
Human Development", released worldwide last Tuesday argues that new
technologies are a key to reducing world poverty and refutes the view
that technology is primarily a luxury for people in rich countries.
"Technology is like education ? it enables people to lift themselves out
of poverty. Thus technology is a tool for, not just a reward of, growth
and development". However it cautions that developing countries should
not simply import and apply knowledge from outside just by acquiring
equipment, seeds and pills. "Not every country needs to develop
cutting-edge technologies, but every country needs domestic capacity to
identify technology's potential benefits and to adapt new technology to
its needs and constraints."
However, Burma is no-where in the Technological Achievement Index, which
focus on "how well the country as a whole is participating in creating
and using technology". In the report, there are four categories of the
technological achievement index such as Leaders, Potential Leaders,
Dynamic Adopters and Marginalized. Burma is not in any of the
categories, placing as "no data available" while its neighbor Thailand
is in the category of Dynamic Adopters and Malaysia is in the category
of Potential Leaders.
Although the telephone has been around for more than a hundred years,
Burma has 6 telephones (mainland and cellular) per 1,000 people while
Thailand has 124 telephones per 1,000 people and Nepal has 12 telephones
per 1,000 people, according to the report.
The military-run Burma restricts its citizens from accessing foreign
television networks. Internet services are not available to the
citizens. The people need prior permission to own fax machine and the
exorbitant charges are levied on fax transmissions.
However, Myanma Posts and telecommunications, which is a sole provider
of telecommunication services in the whole country, claimed that it
intended to have the telephone density of the country as 12 per 1,000
inhabitants at the end of March 2000 and the number of telephones as
650,000. It said it is now operating Internet E-mail service initially
with 160 leased line users and 1,540 dial up users in the Capital.
Cellular Mobile Telephone system was first started in 1993 in Burma.
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<center><b><font color="#CC0000"><font size=+2>Burma ranks 118 in UN Human
Development Report</font></font></b></center>
<p><i><font color="#006600"><font size=+1>July 12, 1001</font></font></i>
<br><i><font color="#006600"><font size=+1>Mizzima News Group</font></font></i>
(<a href="http//www.mizzima.com">www.mizzima.com</a>)
<p><font size=+1>Burma has moved up from low human development to medium
human development in four years and ranked at 118th on the Human Development
Index of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) out of 162 countries.</font>
<p><font size=+1>The Index, which measures the overall achievements of
a country in three basic dimensions of human development, is based on longevity,
educational attainment and ability to buy basic goods and services.</font>
<p><font size=+1>Burma, which is near the bottom of the Medium Human Development,
is above some of its Asian partners. Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, which
fall in the low human development category, are slotted at 127, 129 and
130 respectively. However, Burma is far below that of other South East
Asian countries. Thailand is ranked at 66, Malaysia at 56, Philippines
at 70, Indonesia at 102 and Viet Nam at 101.</font>
<p><font size=+1>Norway leads the 162 countries on the index while Sierra
Leone languishes at the bottom of the index. It is a jump-up for Burma,
which was ranked 131 out of 175 countries and fell in the category of "low
human development" by the HDR report in 1997.</font>
<p><font size=+1>In the Human Poverty Index, Burma is ranked at 43 while
Thailand at 21. Burma has Adult literacy rate of 84.4% while India has
56.5% and Bangladesh 40.8%.</font>
<p><font size=+1>The Human Development report 2001 "Making New Technologies
Work for Human Development", released worldwide last Tuesday argues that
new technologies are a key to reducing world poverty and refutes the view
that technology is primarily a luxury for people in rich countries. "Technology
is like education ? it enables people to lift themselves out of poverty.
Thus technology is a tool for, not just a reward of, growth and development".
However it cautions that developing countries should not simply import
and apply knowledge from outside just by acquiring equipment, seeds and
pills. "Not every country needs to develop cutting-edge technologies, but
every country needs domestic capacity to identify technology's potential
benefits and to adapt new technology to its needs and constraints."</font>
<p><font size=+1>However, Burma is no-where in the Technological Achievement
Index, which focus on "how well the country as a whole is participating
in creating and using technology". In the report, there are four categories
of the technological achievement index such as Leaders, Potential Leaders,
Dynamic Adopters and Marginalized. Burma is not in any of the categories,
placing as "no data available" while its neighbor Thailand is in the category
of Dynamic Adopters and Malaysia is in the category of Potential Leaders.</font>
<p><font size=+1>Although the telephone has been around for more than a
hundred years, Burma has 6 telephones (mainland and cellular) per 1,000
people while Thailand has 124 telephones per 1,000 people and Nepal has
12 telephones per 1,000 people, according to the report.</font>
<p><font size=+1>The military-run Burma restricts its citizens from accessing
foreign television networks. Internet services are not available to the
citizens. The people need prior permission to own fax machine and the exorbitant
charges are levied on fax transmissions.</font>
<p><font size=+1>However, Myanma Posts and telecommunications, which is
a sole provider of telecommunication services in the whole country, claimed
that it intended to have the telephone density of the country as 12 per
1,000 inhabitants at the end of March 2000 and the number of telephones
as 650,000. It said it is now operating Internet E-mail service initially
with 160 leased line users and 1,540 dial up users in the Capital. Cellular
Mobile Telephone system was first started in 1993 in Burma.</font>
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