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Rural-Urban Inequalities and Migration in Timor-Leste

McWilliam, Andrew

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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]

CollectionsANU Press (1965-Present)
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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