Myanmar: Energy Rush: Myanmar's Reforms Fuel Hopes of Burmese Boom

Jun 24, 2014 | Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
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Energy executives around the globe rubbed their hands anticipating a new gold rush in Myanmar when that formerly isolated country began opening up in 2011. They're still eagerly waiting, but the fledgling democracy finally seems ready for them.

Before Myanmar, also known as Burma, could fling open its energy reserves, it had to remake its government, overhaul the way it does business -- no more opacity, bribes, and corruption -- and update its crumbling infrastructure.