Timor Leste - Sustainable Development or Resource Cursed?: An Exploration of Timor-Leste's Institutional Choices

ISBN-13: 9783639139822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 312 str.

Jennifer Drysdale

Opis

This book explores the institutional choicesavailable to Timor-Leste to manage their naturalresource wealth wisely and avoid the resource curse.Timor-Leste is a poor country and its challenge is touse its large per capita resource wealth to alleviatepoverty and enable sustainable development.Timor-Lestes Petroleum Fund Law and other mechanismsto manage petroleum revenue are examined. Thesemechanisms appear to be resilient, but remainuntested. Based on field interviews in Timor-Leste,the study offers insights into the opinions of EastTimorese and foreign advisers about how Timor-Lestespetroleum revenue should be managed, and how a poorcountry can raise the living standards of its people.

O autorze

Dr Jennifer Drysdale is a Research Fellow at the Crawford School
of Economics and Government at the ANU. Jennifer has worked with
the East Timorese since 2000 when she worked for Australian
Volunteers International and the UN Administration. She is also
the moderator of the Timor-Leste Studies Association's e-list
(www.tlstudies.org)