Hot off the presses--essays by Burmese economists.

This selection of essays by a number of Burmese-born economists, or about Burma and its economy (obliquely) perhaps won't give you the answers to why are there floods there now,

but you will certainly see how the educated have been sidelined by the military regime.

http://www.amazon.com/Let-Fly-Flowers-Institute-Economics/dp/1514616378