Since independence, Timor-Leste has formed its own hybrid development strategies, through a National Development Plan and the distinct practices of two different governments. These hybrids incorporate mixed ideas from economic liberal, developmental state, and human development traditions. Yet the language […]
54 Timorese doctors graduate as a result of Cuban-East Timorese health cooperation.
“Medicina social”, un concept con un desarrollo notable en América Latina Social, promovido por Salvador Allende en los años 30s del siglo pasado, vincula un modelo amplio y un ethos de salud pública con procesos de tranformación social. En años recientes, […]
“Social medicine”, a Latin American concept, notably developed by Salvador Allende in the 1930s, links up a broader model and ethos of public health with processes of social transformation. In recent years that influence has spread to Timor Leste, through a […]
Interview with Chief Selwyn Garu on customary land in Vanuatu, 2010.
Community land was at the root of indigenous survival and social relations until colonial regimes enforced dispossession. Yet, as if by an accident of history, the countries of Melanesia (and particularly Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu) largely […]
Cuba has been training over 900 medical students from Timor Leste. In September 2010, the first group of eighteen graduated as doctors.
The paper takes a political economy approach, which combines financial and developmental analysis with economic and institutional context. The aim of Part A is to clarify reform options proposed for the Fund, along with relevant considerations. The aim of Part […]
Interviews with two Cuban doctors who are returning home after two years living and teaching in Timor Leste.
International aid agencies have moved into the land debate in Timor Leste, at a time when controversy rages over proposed leases of large tracts of land to foreign biofuel companies and a proposed new land law. The leases, and their […]