Dispossession and Impoverishment in Timor-Leste: Potential Impacts of the Suai Supply Base

Cryan, Meabh

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Dispossession and Impoverishment in Timor-Leste: Potential Impacts of the Suai Supply Base

Date

2015

Authors

Cryan, Meabh

Publisher

Canberra, ACT: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Abstract

Expropriation of land removes the main foundation upon which people’s productive systems, commercial activities, and livelihoods are constructed. This is the principal form of de-capitalization and pauperization of displaced people, as they lose both natural and man-made capital. (Cernea 2000:13)