Rural-Urban Inequalities and Migration in Timor-Leste
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Inequalities between urban and rural Timor-Leste have been a persistent feature of the social landscape from colonial times. Many of these disparities reflect the asymmetric political and economic dynamics that distinguish urban centres of power and financial influence, especially the capital Dili, from the scattered, impoverished countryside where near subsistence agriculture and inevitably limited state services prevail. Socially, too, under Portuguese rule, the old status distinctions...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Press (1965-Present) |
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Date published: | 2015 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/35539 |
Book Title: | A new era? : Timor-Leste after the UN |
DOI: | 10.22459/NE.09.2015.15 |
Access Rights: | Open Access via publisher website |
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