The Dili Report: National Landscape, Current Challenges and Opportunities for Growth

• Main Authors: Institute for Societal Leadership, LIM, Lai Cheng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Timor-Leste; History; Culture; Development; Asian Studies; Growth and Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/isl_research/11; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=isl_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Timor-Leste, Asia’s newest nation, is located in Southeast Asia, on the southernmost edge of the Indonesian archipelago. The country was colonised by the Portuguese for over 450 years, occupied by the Indonesians for 24 years and administered by the United Nations for two and a half years. As a nati...