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63.
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64.
   The international community established a long-term partnership with the Afghan government through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund. Since early 2002, the Fund has drawn total contributions of more than $3 billion from about 30 states headed by the UK, Canada and the US. Its Management Committee, which meets regularly in Kabul, consists of the World Bank (as administrator), the Islamic Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the UN. World Bank,
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65.
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69.
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, p.xvi.

70.
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71.
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72.
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73.
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74.
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75.
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76.
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77.
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78.
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79.
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80.
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81.
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82.
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86.
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87.
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Third Visit: Yadana Gas Transportation Project
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Yadana Gas Transportation Project: Fourth Visit
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.

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.

93.
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97.
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Journal of Business Ethics
61:4 (2005), 329–42.

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.

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.

103.
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104.
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.

105.
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106.
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107.
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Conclusion

 

1.
     Aung San Suu Kyi,
The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements with Contributions by U Kyi Maung and U Tin U
(London: Penguin, 1997), p.9.

2.
     Mary Callahan, “The Endurance of Military Rule in Burma: Not Why, but Why Not?,” in Susan L. Levenstein, ed.,
Finding Dollars, Sense, and Legitimacy in Burma
(Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010), 54–76.

3.
     Timothy Garton Ash, “Beauty and the beast in Burma,”
New York Review of Books
, May 25, 2000.

4.
     David I. Steinberg, “‘Legitimacy’ in Burma/Myanmar: Concepts and Implications,” in N. Ganesan and Kyaw Yin Hlaing (eds),
Myanmar: State, Society and Ethnicity
(Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007), 109–42, p.110.

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