In

Myanmar
Introduction

Generosity is not limited to the wealthy

Charity activity for relief and resettlement services to victims of natural disasters
earthquakes, storms, armed conflict, floods and fire disasters.
Support to
the welfare of children, youths, women, disabilities and religious practice
Urban and rural areas, insurgency areas and rural populations,
the disabled, the aged, the disadvantaged groups
High levels of participation by donating money and volunteering helping charitable activity
GDP Annual Growth Rate in Myanmar averaged 8.97 percent from 1994 until 2015
Background

Theravada Buddhism practiced by a large proportion of the population practice Sangha Dana
The Sangha is a monk or a people who
practicing the good way
practicing the upright way
practicing the knowledgeable or logical way
practicing the proper way
Dna is any form of giving
Sangha Dana it would be interpreted as "Charity to the community of monks."
More than nine in ten people in Myanmar donated money and their time
Three charitable behaviors
Helping a stranger
Donating money to a charity
Volunteering time
Top at global index of charitable behavior showing the resilience of human kindness
92% of people devout Theravada Buddhists (small or many charitable donation by daily)
 Charities Aid Foundation

CAF World Giving Index (2015)

5 year World Giving Index

Source : CAF World Giving Index 2016

Economic condition

Source :UNDP, World Bank , IMF

Research question

What is the future of Charity and Economic Growth, enhancing neutral or Disasters?
Conceptual Reason of the Charity

Positive causes Negative causes

Strongly influence of Theravada Buddhism practice last decades, govt. cant provide efficient services
Religion and culture are intertwined public service, disaster and insurgency area
Appeared is a resilience and need to take care of each
other

Regular Charity and Donation Emergency Charity and Donation

notion of sangha dana In a lot of rural areas and ethnic minority areas,
Donate to temples & monastery donating money in conflict-hit
Give foods to the monks supporting disaster effected people
Donate to build religious structure to make them able to earn their own living and to stand
Bloods Donation on their own feet
Private Foundation for charity Cater in gap of public service
Donation with religious activity Health service
Help a stranger by giving some cash money or things Funeral service
Regular free services for Health, Education, Funeral Education service
and Resettlement Transportation service
Resettlement service

Source: Paul Fuller, lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the University of Cardiff.

Conceptual Diagram of the Charity
Charitable organizations,
public and private foundations

Children Religious

Provide
Provide aa better
better
Human Health & environment
environment
Theravada Education
Regular Rights Blood Improve
Improve economic
economic
Buddhism
Practice Charity and
and social
social conditions
conditions
Equality
Equality care and
care and
compassion
compassion
Disabilities Insurgency Raise
Raise and
and develop
develop
education
education
Civil
Civil society
society and
and
Govt. socio-economic
socio-economic
Emergency
Inefficient Charity Loans Cashes Funeral development
development
services Relief
Relief poverty
poverty

Disaster
Environment
Relief

118 LNGO & 56 INGO (2012)

Source: Charity Organization Management (COM) retrieved 6 November 2016 from http://www.lrcmyanmar.org/en/ngo-donor-profiles/charity-organization-management-com
Significance of economic situation

low tax collection

Massive Armed conflicts
Budget deficits
Rising Inflation Source :World Bank , IMF
Slowing rebuild of agricultural sector and rural development in disaster-hit areas and insurgency
area
Inadequate skilled labors
Advancement of Economic Growth

Access to Income
healthcare distribution
Economic growth deals
with increase in the level Social
Literacy
of output and
security
but economic development and
education
pensions
is related to increase in
output coupled with
improvement in social and
political welfare of people economic Modern
GDP per
Advancement transportati
within a country. capita
on
economic development
encompasses both growth
and welfare values.

Economic
Growth

Source: World Bank's "World Development Indicators

 Relation Between Economic Growth and Charity
Purpose Unity society
Have
Support
Support to
to crucial
crucial of
of
beneficial
Helping a Economic
Economic
for others
stranger
Advancement
Advancement

Income
Income
Purpose Social Education
Education
Relief infrastructure Health
Health care
care
Donating
poverty Public services Social Economic
Economic
money to a
Have
Social security
security
charity Public safely Social Growth
Growth
beneficial in Social infrastructure
infrastructure
civil society Relief and Human
Human resources
resources
Resettlement Demography
Demography
Purpose Domestic
Domestic
Have Health production
production
beneficial in education socio-economic
socio-economic
Volunteering civil society Public welfare status
status
time Have helpful
Relief and
in public Resettlement
sectors
Recommendation

developed nations, generous social services and benefits are funded with tax
they need to give anymore to help others.

Merit
Provide a better environment
Raise and develop Civil society and socio-economic and relief poverty

Demerit
No tax effective
Some charity are surplus and ineffective
Enduring as a religion things
Lack of organized and haphazard activity

Obvious link between the economic advancement and the charitable behaviors.
The economic advancement certainly backing to economic growth
Thus, the relation of Charity and Economic Growth would be enhance neutral but
will not disaster
 70 % people living in rural areas and several ethnic minority with low income and education
37 % of the nations population are unemployed and an average of 26 % live in poverty.
Demonstrate how a poor country can be a rich one through its generosity.
Myanmar society still improving economic opportunities and social conditions
Conserve the endearing behavior
donated money to a charity
Volunteering
helping a stranger
the relation of Charity and Economic Growth would be enhance neutral but will not disaster