“If there were opportunities in Myanmar, they would stay here.” “Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,” said manager Kyaw Thura, listing the countries where he helps the young men crowding his one-room office find jobs as laborers and cooks. To match Analysis MYANMAR-ECONOMY/ REUTERS/Damir Sagolj But as tourists and investors knock on its door, the number of Burmese flowing in the opposite direction suggests that ordinary people don't expect the end of half a century of isolation to improve the economy anytime soon.
Hopes of concrete economic reforms are running high among foreign business people now pouring into Myanmar, which has fanned optimism by pledging democratic reform, freeing political prisoners and setting the stage for an April by-election. Workers are transported atop a truck after finishing work at a construction site in capital Naypyitaw January 24, 2012.
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