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Timor-Leste
The History and Development of Asia’s Newest Nation
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2014
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Timor-Leste: The History and Development of Asia’s Newest Nation is a study of how a small Asia-Pacific nation has emerged from protracted conflict and successfully navigated a path to durable peace and sustainable development. Despite early setbacks, Timor-Leste has made an amazing turnaround and today finds itself in a new era in which it will certainly continue its advance toward the goal of long-term stability and prosperity, leaving permanently behind the past that was once marked by a descending spiral of destruction.
Yet, a number of development challenges lie ahead for Timor-Leste, particularly in strengthening human, institutional, and infrastructural capacities in the short to medium term, and in transforming the national economy from oil-based to more diversified and better balanced in the longer run. Other countries may draw valuable lessons from Timor-Leste’s experience, especially those that are emerging from as well as are currently affected by conflict and instability. Such lessons would center on the questions such as management of natural resources, empowerment of the vulnerable, implementation of transparent and accountable governance, advancement of women, and mobilization of civil society and the public in general for democratization and the national development process.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9120-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9121-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
189
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Contents No access
List of Figures and Tables No access
Chronology and Map of Timor-Leste No access
Foreword No access
Preface and Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Emergence of Asia’s Newest Nation No access Pages 1 - 10
1 Timor-Leste and Its Economic History in Brief No access Pages 11 - 26
2 Declaring Development as a Right No access Pages 27 - 40
3 Investing with Natural Resource Endowments No access Pages 41 - 62
4 Promoting Agriculture and Food Security No access Pages 63 - 80
5 Empowering the Vulnerable No access Pages 81 - 98
6 Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change No access Pages 99 - 116
7 Implementing Millennium Development Goals No access Pages 117 - 134
8 Partnering with the World Community No access Pages 135 - 156
9 From Tragedy to Triumph—Building the Foundation of Modern Timor-Leste No access Pages 157 - 178
Selected References on Timor-Leste No access Pages 179 - 184
