 | Index to Articles by Topic"LHB" indicates that the article was published in the La'o Hamutuk Bulletin. Most other items are press releases, reports, or submissions to public officials.
Articles are in reverse chronological order, with the most recent listed first. Select a topic to go to a list of links to articles about it:
Justice and Human Rights (see separate index page) Oil and Natural Gas (see separate index page) Environment International Financial Institutions Global Trade and Markets Timor-Leste Government Finances LH Timór-Leste atu Debe: Lojika ka La’e? (11/09) Why Should Timor-Leste go into Debt? (also Tetum) Background, commentary and reference documents. (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: It takes more than a Commission to end corruption (also Tetum) (6/09) 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 Submission on draft Anti-Corruption Commission Law (also Tetum) (2/09)
Also texts of draft (Eng) and promulgated Laws (Portuguese) 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 statements at Parliamentary anti-corruption conference (9/08) 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)
Aid to Timor-Leste (see also Donors Conferences below) Donors (Development Partners) Conferences United Nations 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)
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