The tools and programs created by outside “experts” to support Myanmar’s democratic transition are crippling the country’s politics, leaving key questions unaddressed.

The tired formula being offered as a solution to the Rohingya crisis by the UN and other players is unlikely to offer a lasting solution—and could even be disastrous. 

Tony Waters offers his ironic views of research reports commissioned by foreign donors which sometimes seem to serve their own political objectives than the needs of Myanmar.