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Cover -- CONTENTS -- CONTEXT -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND OUTLOOK -- A. Recent Developments -- B. Outlook and Risks -- POLICY DISCUSSIONS: FACILITATING SUSTAINABLE GROWTH -- A. Fiscal Policy -- B. Financial Policy: Safeguarding Stability and Inclusion -- C. Structural Reforms: Enabling Private Sector Diversification -- D. Statistics and Technical Assistance -- STAFF APPRAISAL -- BOXES -- 1. Macroeconomic Impact under Different Fiscal Policy Scenarios -- 2. External Competitiveness -- FIGURES -- 1. Real Sector Developments -- 2. Developments in the Petroleum Fund -- 3. Fiscal Developments

When Timor-Leste gained independence in 2002 one of its most pressing priorities was to build a functioning police force to help ensure peace, stability, and justice. Establishing Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) required the government to address significant challenges related to limitations of experience, resources, and institutional systems. From the beginning, the government, along with international development partners, was focused on strengthening safety and security in Timor-Leste through community-focused approaches to policing. The concept of community policing can mean many things to many people, however, all models share a focus on addressing potential or actual security problems through strong relationships between police officers and citizens. Community policing helps communities by preventing disputes and allowing for constructive, evidence-based responses to disputes after they have occurred. Community policing helps police by improving their access to information and ties to the communities they work in. Community policing helps governments by building people's trust and understanding of the state's institutions and processes of law enforcement.

An ambassador of Portugal describes the diplomatic processes through which the desire of the people of East Timor for independence was brought to the attention of the UN General Assembly and Security Council, eventually weakening the determination of Indonesia to remain in control. Included in a collection of articles under the cover title "As Nações Unidas, a Indonésia e Timor-Leste".

The Asia Foundation has been implementing programs aimed at strengthening local governance in Timor-Leste since 2009. These programs endeavor to increase the capacity of local leaders and help build ties between community members, local leadership, and municipal and national level government. The Foundation's local governance programs recognize the importance of community knowledge and expertise in addressing local needs, including peace and security, and adopt a "bottom-up" approach to foster participation and empower communities in the process of their own development.

Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste analyses various economic dynamics in past and present Timor-Leste. Comprising 14 research chapters, the volume brings to the fore: 1) local, community-based economic values and arrangements; 2) community-based entanglements with a market-driven economy; 3) the colonial and postcolonial governance praxis through which a market-driven economy has permeated the country, and 4) the creative and place-based ways through which local people have responded to these transformations. The collection challenges hegemonic, market-driven analyses which characterise Timor-Leste's economy as weak, deformed and homogenised and demonstrates the myriad of socially embedded ways through which Timor-Leste's economy is diverse, richly complex and continually brought into being. To frame the analysis of these complex economic dynamics in Timor-Leste, the collection's introduction develops the concept of economic ecologies: the assemblages of institutions and their localised and historical relationships mobilised for reproducing collective life, both in its material and immaterial aspects.

Xanana Gusmão recently mentioned that a "Second Maubere Miracle" is underway, implying that a major political reform will soon shake the roots of Timor-Leste's public administration. Decentralization, defined in a very broad sense, has been a constitutional mandate since independence, but successive governments have failed to engage this reform despite paying lip service to its necessity. This essay reviews the options before the policy makers – both in theoretical terms (distinguishing between the various definitions of decentralization) and in the pragmatic forms that have been contemplated so far – and discusses their implications for the process of rooting a modern democracy in the country both at the intermediate, district level and at the grassroots, suku (village) level. For this purpose, the essay brings together the author's own field research and the rich literature that has emerged in the recent past, including contributions by Timorese colleagues. (auhtor's abstract)

"Osttimors Weg vom Status einer portugiesischen Überseeprovinz hin zu einer unabhängigen Republik war lang und geprägt von Gewalt: 24 Jahre währte der Bürgerkrieg, bis endlich 2002 mithilfe der Vereinten Nationen Timor-Leste ein eigenständiger Staat wurde. Allerdings wird auch heute die internationale Unterstützung benötigt, damit die junge Republik überleben kann." (Autorenreferat)