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Burma


The Burmese suffer from growing poverty, due as much to the restrictive economic policies as to under-investment in education and health. AIDS continues to spread in the face of a lack of any appropriate response. MdM intervened with an emergency programme after Cyclone Nargis struck the country in May.

INFANT MORTALITY 75
LIFE EXPECTANCY 60.8
HDI 0.583; RANK 132/177
GDP/CAPITA ($) 1,027