Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development explained

Agency Name:Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development
Agency Type:Ministry
Jurisdiction:Government of Burma
Headquarters:Naypyidaw
Minister1 Name:Kan Zaw
Deputyminister1 Name:Le Le Thein
Deputyminister2 Name:Hsan Lwin
Deputyminister7 Name:-->
Child1 Agency:Central Statistical Organization
Child2 Agency:Directorate of Investment and Company Administration
Superseding1:Ministry of Planning and Finance

The Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development (Burmese: အမျိုးသားစီမံကိန်းနှင့် စီးပွားရေး ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု ဝန်ကြီးဌာန; abbreviated MNPED) administers Burma's economic development and national planning policies.

MNPED is currently led by Kan Zaw, who was appointed by President Thein Sein on 7 September 2012.[1] Prior to his appointment, he had been serving as a deputy minister since March 2011.[2]

History

After 1948, the new government organized the Ministry of National Planning to rebuild the country.

The ministry is composed with Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Union Culture and Ministry of Defence. In 1964, it became reserve as Ministry of National Planning. In those years, the ministry performed as National Planning Board, Economic Planning Board, Economic and Social Board.

On March 15, 1972, it was composed with Ministry of Finance and Taxas Ministry of Planning and Finance. On February 17, 1993, the Ministry of Planning and Finance was organized as the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development and Ministry of Finance and Tax.

On March 30, 2016, the president Htin Kyaw composed those two ministries as Ministry of Planning and Finance.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Appointment of Union Ministers Order No. 30/2012. Thein Sein. 7 September 2012. President Office. 27 June 2015.
  2. Web site: Cabinet. 25 November 2014. Alternative Asean Network on Burma. 27 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20170520145308/http://www.altsean.org/Research/Regime%20Watch/Executive/Cabinet.php. 20 May 2017. dead.
  3. Web site: အမျိုးသားစီမံကိန်းနှင့် စီးပွားရေး ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု ဝန်ကြီးဌာန (သမိုင်းနောက်ခံ). 30 March 2012.