Timor-Leste
TIMOR-LESTE: Working to Tackle Unemployment
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011DILI – Tackling unemployment has been one of the main stumbling blocks in the statebuilding process in Timor-Leste, a half-island nation of about 1.1 million people.
Nowhere is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of achieving decent employment for men, women and young people more crucial than for a young, post-conflict nation like Timor-Leste, [...]
Timor-Leste and a Lethargic New Generation
Thursday, July 14th, 2011The Irrawaddy
By MATT CROOK
JULY 14, 2011
DILI—It was a humid night and I wandered home in the dark, cursing the government of Timor-Leste for yet another power cut in Dili, the country’s tiny capital. I was lumbering up the road to my house, illuminating my path with my mobile to avoid the crater-like potholes, when I [...]
TIMOR LESTE: Future Lies in the Young Nation’s Hands
Friday, July 8th, 2011DILI – Timor-Leste is a young nation in every sense. Nine years after achieving formal independence in 2002, ending 24 years of savage occupation by the Indonesian army, half of its population of 1.1 million is under the age of 18. Many of its children lost friends and relatives during the Indonesian era and its [...]
Fragile states speak up on aid spending
Monday, April 4th, 2011Guardian Poverty Matters blog, Friday 1 April 2011 — About a year ago, officials from seven fragile states met out of donor earshot to compare notes and air their grievances about how billions of dollars of donor money has been spent on peacebuilding and statebuilding over the years.
Dili, Timor-Leste’s capital, was the perfect place to [...]
Emilia Pires
Friday, April 1st, 2011Monocle Issue 41 Emilia Pires Finance Minister PDF
East Timor’s ‘Nuniversity’
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011The Irrawaddy
By MATT CROOK
JANUARY 18, 2010
LAUTEM — The nuns were creating an almighty din. In one room there was a sister getting down with a keyboard, while in another there were a couple of nuns bashing out chords on guitars.
While not the most gifted musicians of the Catholic Church, the sisters’ real talents lie in [...]
Forecast 2011: Flashing the cash seen as the path to success
Thursday, December 30th, 2010Monocle December 28, 2010 — Dili
Writer: Matt Crook
They may not yet have flat roads, regular electricity or a constant water supply, but work on Timor-Leste’s first mall is almost complete. While it’s all systems go in the capital, Dili, where high-end developments are sprouting in the most unlikely places, two-thirds of the country who live [...]
Road repairs a boon to villages
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010DILI, 22 November 2010 (IRIN) – Timor-Leste’s government is engaging rural communities to improve the country’s road network, which is almost 60 percent unpaved, to create jobs and develop vital infrastructure.
The TIM-Works Project, being implemented by the Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment, with technical assistance from the International Labour Organization (ILO), is [...]
Snipping Away at Youth Unemployment
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010DILI, Nov 11, 2010 (IPS) – In a small city where most of the 22,000 inhabitants rely on subsistence farming to put food on the table, one young woman has gone against the grain with a business venture that embodies the changing times in Timor-Leste, South-east Asia’s newest and poorest nation.
‘I’ve felt a big change [...]
Millennium development goals: Fragile states claim summit outcome off-target
Friday, September 24th, 2010Also run by The Guardian.
DILI, Sep 23, 2010 (IPS) – Calls by fragile states for greater focus on addressing conflict and fragility have been largely ignored in the outcome document of the millennium development goals (MDGs) summit in New York, but critical donors are at least listening to the growing rumble of voices from developing [...]