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The Right to Existence in Developing Countries: Basic Income in East Timor

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https://doi.org/10.2202/1932-0183.1141

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In this article we consider the potential of a Basic Income (BI) as a mechanism for promoting well-integrated and autonomous social and productive development in newly independent Democratic Republic of East Timor, and for expanding the freedom of this country's population that is struggling to throw off the bitter legacy of colonial and postcolonial dispossession and violence. We briefly outline the main social and economic problems faced by the new Democratic Republic of East Timor. Then we argue that a BI financed by oil and natural gas revenues could play a major role in combating these problems.

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Desenvolupament econòmic, Economia domèstica, Recursos naturals, Drets humans

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Economic development, Home economics, Natural resources, Human rights

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CASASSAS, David, RAVENTÓS, Daniel and WARK, Julie. The Right to Existence in Developing Countries: Basic Income in East Timor. Basic Income Studies. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 1, pags. 1-14. ISSN 2194-6094. [consulted: 14 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/111866

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