In Burma, agriculture and natural resource extraction account for 50-60 percent of the GDP, while the manufacturing sector makes for only nine percent of GDP. Human resource development has been severely neglected, largely due to policies of the ruling junta that has kept universities closed for much of the past 15 years for fear of student unrest. Burmese policy-making is opaque, with a weak legal regime. Further, the junta has handed out economic privileges to a small elite of favoured companies and family members. Economic information is difficult to obtain and the government data is hardly reliable.