Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development

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

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Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development
အမျိုးသားစီမံကိန်းနှင့် စီးပွားရေးဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန
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DissolvedMarch 30, 2016 (2016-3-30)
Superseding agency
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Burma
HeadquartersNaypyidaw
Minister responsible
Deputy Ministers responsible
  • Le Le Thein
  • Hsan Lwin
Child agencies
Websitewww.mnped.gov.mm
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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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