Timor Leste - Sustainable development or resource cursed?

This book explores the institutional choices
available to Timor-Leste to manage their natural
resource wealth wisely and avoid the resource curse.
Timor-Leste is a poor country and its challenge is to
use its large per capita resource wealth to alleviate
poverty and enable sustainable development.
Timor-Leste s Petroleum Fund Law and other mechanisms
to manage petroleum revenue are examined. These
mechanisms appear to be resilient, but remain
untested. Based on field interviews in Timor-Leste,
the study offers insights into the opinions of East
Timorese and foreign advisers about how Timor-Leste s
petroleum revenue should be managed, and how a poor
country can raise the living standards of its people.

Autorentext

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

Klappentext

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-Leste's 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-Leste'spetroleum revenue should be managed, and how a poorcountry can raise the living standards of its people.