LH letter to President Jose Ramos-Horta (also Tetum) raising concerns about the 2012 State Budget (12/11)
Press release (also Tetum) and Preliminary Recommendations (also Tetum) from the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty (11/11)
Compania Investimentu Timor-Leste, Investe ka Fakar Osan? (11/11)
LH letter to Parliament Committee C (also Tetum) on the Appeals Court Opinion on the 2010 General State Accounts (also Port.) (10/11)
LH submission to Parliament Committee C on the proposed 2012 State Budget (also Tetum) (10/11)
Index page on 2012 State Budget (also Tetum) (10/11)
Deve no Problema sira ba Timor-Leste husi Guteriano Neves iha Diario Nasional (9/11)
Index page with summary, links and documents on the Strategic Development Plan (9/11)
Groups worldwide urge debt-free Timor-Leste not to borrow. Statement and press release from 117 Timorese and international organizations (English/Tetum) (9/11)
Why Should Timor-Leste go into Debt? (also Tetum) Background, commentary and reference documents. (8/11)
Some thoughts from LH for the Regional EITI Conference (also Tetum) (8/11)
LH preliminary analysis (also Tetum) and summary of analysis (also Tetum) of Strategic Development Plan (also Portuguese) approved by Parliament (7/11)
Presentation by LH about TL's Economy and State Budget to UNTL/Victoria University Conference on Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills (also Tetum) (7/11)
LH Treinamentu kona-ba Orsamentu Jeral Estadu RDTL 2011 - rekursu, aprezentasaun, no sst. (5/11)
UNDP 2011 National Human Development Report for Timor-Leste (also Tetum) with La'o Hamutuk comment (also Tetum and Tetum slideshow) (5/11)
LH Timor-Leste Human Development Index unchanged in global 2010 UNDP report (5/11)
Analysis of the draft of the Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030 (also Tetum), including May 2010 leaked draft plan, slide show of Prime Minister's public consultation, leaked contract and TOR, and many other documents (4/11)
Understanding the 2011 Budget (also Tetum) graphs of allocation and execution (2/11)
Ministry of Finance presentation on Strategic Development Plan (2/11)
LH article We Must Respect the Constitutional Principles of the President’s Duties (also Tetum) about JRH seeking court advice before promulgating the 2011 State Budget (2/11)
LH letter to Parliament Committee C about 2011 State Budget (also Tetum) (1/11)
LH letter to the IMF about their reports on public financial management (12/10) and IMF response (1/11)
LH submission to Parliament Committee C on 2011 State Budget (also PDF and Tetum) (12/10)
Making the Oil Companies Pay What They Owe (12/10)
LH submission to Parliament Committee D on 2011 State Budget (also PDF and Tetum) (12/10)
2011 General State Budget for Timor-Leste (12/10)
2010 mid-year budget rectification index page, with links to many documents (9/10)
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Timor-Leste index page (7/10)
Radio Igualidade: Orsamentu Rektifikativu 2010 (6 MB Tetum MP3) (6/10)
Submission from La'o Hamutuk on mid-year budget rectification (6/10)
Radio Igualidade: Timor-Leste atu Debe? (6 MB Tetum MP3) (5/10)
LHB: Donor, oil and other money in Timor-Leste since 1999 (2/10)
LH Timór-Leste atu Debe: Lojika ka La’e? (11/09)
LH Orsamentu Jeral Estadu 2010 hatutan nafatin dalan ba ‘Malisan Rekursu’ (11/09)
LH Submission to Parliament on 2010 General State Budget (also Tetum) and corrective letter (also Tetum) (11/09)
2010 General State Budget for Timor-Leste, including Budget Documents, analysis and Preliminary comments by LH (also Tetum) (10/09)
LH Timor-Leste Human Development Index unchanged in 2009 UNDP report (10/09)
NGO Forum submission (also Tetum) on proposed budget and financial management law (9/09)
Briefing Paper: How much money have international donors spent on and in Timor-Leste? (also Tetum) (8/09)
LHB: Estimating Sustainable Income (also Tetum) (6/09)
Orsamento Estadu 2009: Prudente ka lae? Three newspaper articles debating whether the budget brings the resource curse to TL (Tetum, 4/09)
LH analysis of prudence and sustainability in calculating the Estimated Sustainable Income (also Tetum) (3/09)
LH article 2009 State Budget: Who does it benefit? (also Tetum) (1/09)
LH Submission on TL budget for 2009 (also Tetum), (1/09)
Also submissions from FONGTIL, Ba Los, and ETADEP (all Tetum)
Topic page on RDTL State Budget for 2009, with links (12/08)
LH Desijaun Tribunal Rekursu iha Nasaun de Direitu Demokrátiku (11/08)
LHB Editorial: Budget Invites Resource Curse (11/08)
LHB Budgeting for the future (11/08)
Appeals court rules mid-year budget unconstitutional
Text of ruling (Portuguese), Complaint (Portuguese) and many other links (11/08)
LH training for journalists on the budget (also Tetum and Powerpoints in Tetum and English) and annotated budget (10/08)
LHB Editorial and report on Public Meeting regarding the new tax law (8/08)
Summary of the new Tax Reform law (7/08)
Core Group analysis of Economic Stabilization Fund (also Tetum) (7/08)
Mid-Year update to the 2008 RDTL State Budget, information and analysis about the 122% increase (11/08)
Budget Execution Reports for July-Dec 2007 and Jan-Mar 2008, Jan-Jun 2008, and Jan-Sep 2008 (11/08)
Proposed domestic tax reform legislation, with many documents, texts, testimonies and hearing schedule (5/08)
RDTL State Budget for 2008 (2/08)
UNDP Budget Highlights pamphlet. (12/07)
LHB Editorial: World Bank Recommends Neo-Liberal Pathway, Again (1/08)
Timor-Leste declines in UNDP Human Development Ranking (12/07)
Fourth Constitutional Government of RDTL: Structure, Program, Budget and members (10/07)
LHB Editorial: Parliament, Don't pass greedy pension laws (3/07)
Save the people’s money! (stop lifetime pensions for former members of parliament) (1/07)
LHB Timor-Leste will be one of the most oil-dependent countries in the world (11/05)
LHB Seven Ways to Meet Timor-Leste’s Financial Gap (3/04)
LHB The Banking and Payments Authority (BPA) (1/04)
LH Statement to the Development Partners Meeting also Portuguese (12/03)
LHB Development Partners conference (8/03).
See also Joint NGO Statement to the Development Partners Meeting (6/03)
LHB A Review of the First Year of the Transition Support Program, including diagrams about all public sector spending in Timor-Leste (5/03)
LHB Editorial: A Brief Overview of the National Development Plan (8/02)
LHB Editorial: Dollarization and Democracy (6/01)
LHB Funding Timor-Leste's Reconstruction: An Overview of the UNTAET and ETTA budgets, where they come from and how they are spent (including diagrams) (4/01)
LHB Editorial: Equipment Should Stay after UNTAET Leaves (4/01)
LHB Taxes in Timor-Leste (4/01)
LHB Editorial: Money Matters: Priorities and Process (4/01)
LHB Funding the Health Sector (11/00)
LH letter to the UN Security Council about the S-G's latest UNMIT report (11/11)
UNDP 2011 global Human Development Report shows Timor-Leste barely changed (11/11)
UNDP 2011 National Human Development Report for Timor-Leste (also Tetum) with La'o Hamutuk comment (also Tetum and Tetum slideshow) (5/11)
LH Timor-Leste Human Development Index unchanged in global 2010 UNDP report (5/11)
Letter from Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal to the UN Security Council (also Tetum) about justice (2/11)
Letter from La'o Hamutuk to the UN Security Council analyzing Secretary-General's report on UNMIT (2/10)
Letter from Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal to the UN Security Council about justice (2/10)
Analysis of words about justice used in the UN Security Council debates and resolutions during the past ten years. (also Tetum) (12/09)
La'o Hamutuk letter to UN Security Council on justice and other issues. Also PDFs of letter and annex. (10/09)
LH Timor-Leste Human Development Index unchanged in 2009 UNDP report (10/09)
LH Submission to Australian Parliamentary Inquiry on Human Rights Mechanisms and the Asia-Pacific, as well as submission from Clinton Fernandes (12/08)
UNMIT Transitional Strategy and Appeal (3/08)
UNMIT-RDTL Agreement about investigation of 1999 Serious crimes (2/08)
UN sets justice bar low, then declines to jump (2/08)
Timor-Leste declines in UNDP Human Development Ranking (12/07)
LHB Screening PNTL back into service (6/07)
LHB Lessons for the UN from Timor-Leste (3/07)
LHB Public Meeting on PNTL-UNPOL Cooperation (3/07)
UNMIT-RDTL-Australia Memorandum of Understanding on the provision of assistance to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste regarding provision and coordination of police and military forces (1/07)
UNMIT-RDTL Arrangement on how the UN police will work with the Timorese Police (12/06)
LH Timor-Leste slips slightly in UNDP Human Development Index (11/06)
Debate over placing foreign troops in Timor-Leste under UN command (8/06)
includes statements from La'o Hamutuk, TL NGO Forum, IFET, James Dunn and many UN and RDTL Documents.
The Paradox of Aid in Timor-Leste (7/06), paper presented by La'o Hamutuk at the University of Brasilia
LH Suggestions for the Next United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (6/06)
summary press release
LHB Assessment of UNMISET Advisors (8/05)
LHB Civil Society Forum statement on Millennium Development Goals (1/04)
Open Letter to UNMISET (7/03). This letter was printed as an LHB Editorial: What should UNMISET do now? (8/03)
LHB UNDP Workshop on Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh (5/03)
LHB UNMISET and Internal Security in Timor-Leste (5/03)
LHB Hiroshima UN Conference on Post-Conflict Reconstruction (3/03)
Disorder in Timor-Leste: The International Community Must Accept Responsibility; also Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia (12/02)
LHB Timor-Leste joins United Nations (10/02)
LHB Special Report on Electricity (8/02)
LHB UNDP letter on Japan's aid to the Power Sector, and LH Response (12/02)
LHB Timor-Leste Faces Post-UNTAET Challenges (5/02)
Can the Rule of Law Prevail? Pressure from UN HQ Exacerbates Amos W Tax Controversy. Bahasa version (3/02)
Also: Response from UNTAET (3/02)
LHB An Assessment of the UN’s Police Mission in Timor-Leste (2/02)
LHB The United Nations, Gender Affairs, and Timor-Leste (8/01)
LHB Reconstruction and Transition: What are the Next Steps? (7/01)
LHB UNTAET-World Bank Background Paper (7/01)
LHB Planning for the Post-UNTAET Era (7/01)
E. Timor NGOs protest UN police predictions of election violence with CivPol response (3/01) and LHB Editorial (4/01)
LH on UNTAET Gag Rule (1/01)
LHB World Health Organization Report on Timor-Leste Health Situation (11/00)
LHB Environmental Health: UNTAET and Asbestos (7/00)
LHB Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid Process Released by UNTAET (7/00)
LHB Timor-Leste's Reconstruction: Much to celebrate, and much yet to accomplish (6/00)