Natural Resource Revenue Sharing: Are Stakeholders Negotiating Blind?

Jun 18, 2014 | Mari Oye, Myanmar Times
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The management of natural resources and natural resource revenues is a hot topic in Myanmar, particularly the role state and region governments have to play.

In recent years, natural resource revenue sharing has been on the agenda in both relatively resource-rich and resource-poor areas.

In April, the Arakan National Conference called for 50pc of oil and gas revenues from Rakhine state and the offshore sites nearby, and for local groups to be included in resource management. In November, the Chin National Conference called for “equitable sharing between the union and state government of the revenues obtained from the natural resources”, and for the “state government to play a more important role in the management of the natural resources in the state”.