E Timor 'poor and getting poorer'
East Timor remains the poorest country in South East Asia, the UN says - and it is getting poorer.
The UNDP report says there are few employment prospects in East Timor in anything other than agriculture. About 40% of the population live below the poverty line and education and health care remain patchy. East Timor was ruled by Indonesia for nearly 24 years before a United Nations-sponsored referendum in 1999.
Some 90 babies in 1,000 do not live to see their first birthday and few are immunised, according to the UN report. Half of the population of less than one million has no access to safe drinking water, and job opportunities are few.
domingo, março 12, 2006
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