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Oil, gas and mineral revenues are generated in nearly every state and region in Myanmar, with the most important interests lying in Bago, Kachin, Magway, Mandalay, Sagaing, Shan and Tanintharyi. In these and other regions, petroleum and mining activities have had significant impacts on livelihoods in affected communities, and on the local environment. There is also a perceived lack of benefits from extraction accruing to local populations. Therefore, several parliamentarians and ethnic armed groups have raised natural resource revenue sharing between national and subnational authorities as a key component in national reform, fiscal decentralization, and peace processes.
Depending on how any prospective system is designed, resource revenue-sharing can help address three separate issues: improving development outcomes and the quality of public investment; attracting high quality investors to the sector; and securing a lasting peace...
