[TimorLesteStudies] Seminar - Canberra/Brisbane - Timor-Leste's
Petroleum revenue management
Jennifer Drysdale
jenster at cres10.anu.edu.au
Mon Nov 5 13:50:50 EST 2007
SEMINAR NOTICE CANBERRA AND BRISBANE
Petroleum visions: East Timorese opinions about
how their petroleum revenue is managed
Jenny Drysdale, Fenner School of Environment and
Society, Australian National University
The East Timorese people imagine a better future
in which the riches from the Timor Sea will
reduce their poverty. Timor-Leste now has over
$1.5 billion worth of revenue in its Petroleum
Fund but the quality of life for most has not
improved. Why? Because Timor-Lestes institutions
wear the hallmarks of Portuguese colonisation and
Indonesian occupation, its formal institutions
are weak and destructive institutions, like
corruption and nepotism remain. The 2006 crisis
and the ongoing violence rocked the weak
foundations of state and the world wonders
whether Timor-Leste is yet another victim of the
resource curse that has destroyed countries such as Nigeria and Nauru.
To avoid the resource curse, the Fretilin-led
Government of Timor-Leste established
conservative, and potentially sustainable,
mechanisms for managing Timor-Lestes petroleum
revenue. This research presents the opinions of a
range of East Timorese decision-makers, foreign
advisers and civil society about those plans, and
cross-checks those opinions with the policy
directions of the new Xanana Gusmao-led Government.
Jenny Drysdale recently completed a PhD at the
Fenner School of Environment and Society entitled
Sustainable development or resource cursed? An
exploration of Timor-Lestes institutional
choices (available for download at
<http://cres.anu.edu.au/~jenster>http://cres.anu.edu.au/~jenster)
and is the moderator of the Timor-Leste Studies
Associations e-list (<http://www.etstudies-aust.org/>www.etstudies-aust.org).
The seminar will be recorded and available for
download from
<http://www.etstudies-aust.org/>www.etstudies-aust.org after 23 November.
CANBERRA
12-1pm, Thursday 15 November
The Fenner School of Environment and Society,
Seminar Room, Level 6 (take lift to level 5), Hancock Building West (43),
Biology Place, ANU.
BRISBANE
12-1pm, Monday 19 November
Conference room, 4th floor, Sir James Foots Building,
Corner of Staff House & College Roads, St Lucia campus,
University of Queensland
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Jenny Drysdale
Researcher, Fenner School of Environment and Society
Moderator, Timor-Leste Studies Association List
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