Myanmar and the World Bank (WBG) completed three projects within Myanmar: Two railway projects and a project for the Port of Rangoon. The approved fundings for these projects totaled US$14M. No data is available for the ratings or results of these projects. All three of these projects were funded by the IBRD. The WBG was more heavily involved with Myanmar approving 30 projects totaling 63M USD. The sectors of projects included the following: The biggest of these projects in terms of WBG contributions were the Nyaunggyat Dam Multipurpose 1980 project and the Power Project 1982. These projects were US$90M and US$80M respectively. No data is
History of the Jews in Myanmar nationalist Burmese government. One synagogue survives in Yangon, the capital, and in the 21st century, it attracts an increasing number of tourists. The first recorded Jew in the country was Solomon Gabirol, who served as a commander in the army of King Alaungpaya in the 18th century. But it was in the mid-19th century, during the British colonial period, that Jewish merchants from Iraq and India began establishing sizable communities in Rangoon and Mandalay. The Baghdadi Jews had emigrated from Iraq to escape persecution and being subject to pogroms; they comprised most of the immigrants. Cochin Jews and the Bene