Inter Press ServiceTIMOR-LESTE: Working to Tackle Unemployment https://www.ipsnews.net/2011/07/timor-leste-working-to-tackle-unemployment/ News and Views from the Global South Mon, 18 May 2026 17:52:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 TIMOR-LESTE: Working to Tackle Unemployment https://www.ipsnews.net/2011/07/timor-leste-working-to-tackle-unemployment/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2011/07/timor-leste-working-to-tackle-unemployment/#respond Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:19:13 +0000 Matt Crook http://www.ipsnews.net/?p=117431

By Matt Crook
DILI, Jul 7 2011 (IPS)

Tackling unemployment has been one of the main stumbling blocks in the statebuilding process in Timor-Leste, a half-island nation of about 1.1 million people.

Nowhere is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of achieving decent employment for men, women and young people more crucial than for a young, post-conflict nation like Timor-Leste, which has a population heavily weighted towards its youth. Forty-five percent of its people are aged 15 years and below, according to the Population Reference Bureau.


]]> https://www.ipsnews.net/2011/07/timor-leste-working-to-tackle-unemployment/feed/ 0