RDTL and Donors: Take economic development seriously

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On 19-20 June, Timor-Leste's Ministry of Finance hosted the annual Timor-Leste and Development Partners' Meeting in Dili. The NGO Forum asked La'o Hamutuk to give a presentation on Economic Development, from which this posting is derived. Presentations and documents in Tetum and English are on our web page on TLDPM 2013. PowerPoint of this presentation (also Tetum).

Civil Society presentation to the 2013 TLDPM on the Economic Sector
Developed by La'o Hamutuk, World Vision Timor-Leste, Kolping Nasionál Timor-Leste, Luta Hamutuk, Juventude ba Progresu and Lezival.

Timor-Leste must develop an equitable and sustainable economy.

First of all, we greatly appreciate that the Government and Development Partners have improved cooperation and communication with civil society, including the recent Yellow Road Workshop where the Government invited us to discuss Timor-Leste’s economic and social development.

We believe that the Government and Donors have demonstrated their commitment to develop this country, and we hope that this development will reduce the challenges confronting Timor-Leste, such inadequate human resources, reliance on petroleum, extreme import dependency, neglect of non-oil development and weak quality of expenditure. Therefore, we suggest that Government and Development Partners listen to ideas from many people and institutions, to shift their policies in order to achieve sustainable and equitable economic development. This will guarantee that everyone has the same rights to share in the nation’s resources, including access to education, health, clean water and farming. Our economy will be sustainable when it provides for the future, not only for a few years.

Timor-Leste is already “cursed” by our resources, and we believe that development partners have an important responsibility to help our Government exorcise this curse from our nation. We continue to believe that the only way Timor-Leste can do this is through an economic development concept which is equitable and sustainable.

We need to revise the Strategic Development Plan.

We appreciate the goal of the Strategic Development Plan to eliminate poverty and provide good lives for our people. In the two years since Timor-Leste began to implement this plan, we have gained experience and new information. We believe that today is a good opportunity to reflect on this knowledge, and to revise the SDP so that we can achieve its objectives.

During these two years, the bulk of state spending has gone for physical infrastructure, especially electricity and the Tasi Mane project. We have neglected to develop human resources, education, health, agriculture, fisheries, clean water, small industry and ecotourism – sectors which would improve nearly every Timorese person’s life.

Therefore, we suggest to move in a direction of prioritizing social services in the future. If we don’t start to shift direction today, we will not have enough resources to develop these sectors when our oil and gas reserves run dry, which could be in only a decade.

We need to escape from petroleum dependency and move toward sustainable development.

Timor-Leste more dependent on oil and gas exports than every nation but one. The temporary windfall from this nonrenewable resource makes us ignore other potential sectors which could sustain us after the petroleum is exhausted.

The agriculture sector is critical for Timor-Leste’s future, to sustain and provide livelihood for most of our people. Unfortunately, the Government does not prioritize this sector, which receives only 2% of this year’s State Budget.

81% of our $5.8 billion Gross Domestic product (GDP) in 2011 comes from extracting oil and gas. Even worse, about half of the $1.1 billion “non-oil GDP” was from state spending, of which 94% is fueled with oil revenues. [Source: RDTL General Directorate for Statistics 2011 National Accounts.  See highlights from this and other recent GDS reports.]

We are increasingly reliant on imports. In 2011, we exported $34 million in non-oil goods and $77 million in services that year, while importing $325 in goods and $1,033 million in services, not counting the petroleum sector. Last year, imports doubled -- $670 million worth of goods like electrical equipment, fuel, vehicles, steel articles, rice, beverages and cement, while exports were only $31 million, mostly coffee. Today we are able to close this trade deficit with oil revenues, but if we don’t develop our non-oil sector and reduce imports, we will have no money for imports or social assistance when the oil is gone. [Sources: RDTL GDS Quarterly Statistical Indicators (4q2012) and 2011 External Trade Statistics.]

Consequently, we ask our Development Partners to help our Government support farmers to improve their production, increase their skills and provide technology which is sustainable and appropriate to their lives. Therefore, are not asking help in importing seeds, chemical fertilizers or tractors, which are not sustainable and will damage the environment, as well as undermining our social and cultural values.

“Double-digit” economic growth comes with inflation, benefiting only a few people.

Nearly every week, Government speeches, press releases or documents boast of “double-digit” GDP growth. We regret that this growth comes with double-digit inflation, and increases poverty and hunger even while this nation spends dollars by the billions.

Inflation hits poor people hardest, reducing their buying capacity and increasing poverty among those in rural areas and those without work. We have inflation because we have not developed a strong, productive domestic economy which can absorb state spending, which increases rapidly every year.

In addition, our wealth is not shared fairly among our people, especially those in rural areas. Although the great majority of our economy is fueled by exporting petroleum wealth which belongs to all of our people, a small upper class gets most of the benefits. The richest 10% of our population receives 14 times as much income as the poorest 10%, even when subsistence farming and barter is included. Timor-Leste’s median monthly per capita income is $40 (in Oecusse it’s only $24). In other words, half of Timor-Leste’s people survive on $1.33 per person per day. [Source: RDTL GDS 2011 Household Income and Expenditure Survey.]

All of us must work together to meet the challenge of finding a more sustainable path. By transforming our economic system and developing the non-oil sector, especially agriculture and fishing, we will be able to provide food for ourselves. Many now talk about an “inclusive economy” –meaning that the poorest people get a few crumbs – but we should strive to achieve economic justice, where everyone gets a fair share.

We must try harder to achieve food sovereignty, to add value to our farming, producing basic needs to substitute for imports. Small industry and agricultural and fish processing for local consumption can reduce our trade deficit, provide jobs, and help become truly economically and politically independent. At the same time, tourism and places for selling local products can increase foreign visitors.

We ask Timor-Leste’s Development Partners to help us produce for our domestic market, adding value for Timor-Leste’s people, rather than struggling to compete with industrialized agriculture in other countries.

Government should continue to reduce state spending.

We appreciate the Government’s effort to reduce the growth of the 2013 state budget. We believe that this reduction should continue, and be accompanied by more realistic budget allocations for infrastructure spending, which will help bring the budget in line with reality.

This year’s budget reduces the money taken from the Petroleum Fund to the Estimated Sustainable Income of $0.8 billion, compared with $1.5 billion taken out in 2012. We hope that the Government’s discipline will continue, enabling fiscal sustainability for current and future generations. However, we also recognize that the reduction in 2013 is possible because last year we withdrew much more than we needed; 41% of the 2013 budget is financed with unspent money taken out of the Petroleum Fund in 2012, and another 48% will be paid for with new withdrawals from the Fund.

Recurrent expenditures in 2013 will be 21% higher than what was spent in 2012, which is a slower escalation than the 37% increase from 2011 to 2012, but is still unsustainable. Some people don’t think our economic situation is dangerous because we have nearly $14 billion in our Petroleum Fund, but that will not last very long.

We have almost no productive domestic economy to absorb the money flowing through government from our oil wealth. But the 2013 budget will spend $144 million on the Tasi Mane project, mostly for the Suai Supply Base, airport and highway. The entire Tasi Mane project, including the Betano oil refinery and Beacu LNG plant, could cost ten billion dollars or more if it is ever completed,

We seriously doubt that the Tasi Mane project will bring benefits to most of our people, because public spending for this project is far more than the return it can earn. It will provide few jobs for Timorese workers, but large subsidies to foreign contractors. Farmers will lose productive land and imports will grow, creating even more poverty when the oil is gone. We hope that Development Partners will help Government and civil society carry out a realistic analysis of the costs, benefits and feasibility of Tasi Mane before imminent construction contracts obligate Timor-Leste to pay hundreds of millions of dollars.

In addition to the Tasi Mane project, the Government is spending more money on Dili airport, the Oecusse Economic Zone, Tibar Port, two Comoro bridges, and other projects of dubious benefit. The IFC is helping with the port and airport, based on unrealistic assumptions of vastly increased imports and air travel. We worry when development partners’ “assistance” makes our resource curse more acute, allocating large shares of public resources to benefit a minority of our people.

Therefore, we ask the Development Partners to be honest with our Government, helping policy-makers understand that unrealistic mega-projects threaten economic justice and the future of all Timorese people. Help us invest in human resources, effective management, and fiscal policies oriented to sustainable, equitable development. Timor-Leste needs you to prioritize programs which help our poor and vulnerable people, enabling them to provide for themselves and their grandchildren.

The Government continues to close its eyes to human resource development.

Today, many people worry about the quality of Timorese human resources. Kids don’t learn in school; children’s futures are permanently limited for lack of nutritious food; people die unnecessarily because our health care system does not help them. How can we achieve these human rights, which Timor-Leste committed to ten years ago when we ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?

This problem can be reduced by serious investment in the social service sector. Although the 2013 State Budget is a little better on health, including important medical equipment purchases, it still allocates only 4.2% for health, less than half of global norms.

We still don’t allocate enough to education, only 8.4% in 2013, improved over last year’s 7.0%. Most developing countries place more value on their people, spending around 20% of their budgets on education.

At the moment, the Government is asking how Timor-Leste can achieve the Millennium Development Goals in sectors like education and health. To achieve these standards, Government and donors need to get serious, improving the quality of education and health and making them accessible to everyone. This will make people’s lives better, respecting their human rights. It will also enable them to earn and produce more, providing a basis for developing Timor-Leste’s national economy.

The private sector should invest in their own and the nation’s future.

Timor-Leste needs a strong private sector to help build this nation. Our businesses cannot continue to depend on money from the state.

At present, Timor-Leste’s private sector largely ignores areas which provide jobs for Timorese people. Around 70% of our 600,000-strong labor force works in the agriculture and informal sectors, while less than 10% work for private companies, including government contractors. The private sector should give higher priority to agriculture, which can reduce poverty and develop our economy.

Our non-oil private sector employs 58,200 workers, three-fourths of whom are men, and 18,000 of whom work in construction, the largest sector. Business owners took out almost all their profits, reinvesting very little to make their companies and Timor-Leste grow. Dili-based businesses were especially short sighted – although profits increased by 44% from 2010 to 2011, reinvestment actually dropped by 38%, amounting to less than 9% of profits. District businesses were better – investing more than half of their profits, a significant increase over 2010. [Source: RDTL GDS 2011 Business Activities Survey.]

In addition, local and international contractors need to produce better quality work. Can Government and Donors work with our business sector to build an equitable and sustainable Timor-Leste, with better quality of projects and quality of life, for the long term?

Today, Timor-Leste has many beneficiaries – contractors, veterans, public employees – living off our petroleum nonrenewable petroleum wealth and the generosity of development partners. All of us – civil society, the State, the private sector, development partners, and every citizen – must focus our money, our resources, our time and our efforts on improving the lives of every Timorese person, including our children and grandchildren.

If we don’t work smarter and harder for a better future, who will?

Understanding Timor-Leste's context

To follow the first Fragile States Principle, “Take Context as the Starting Point,” one must understand the context. Timor-Leste’s General Directorate of Statistics (GDS/DGE, formerly the National Statistics Directorate), under the Ministry of Finance, recently published several important reports which help make this possible. We hope that people inside and outside the Government will use them well, and that they will inform the discussions at next week’s Timor-Leste and Development Partners Meeting, next month’s Timor-Leste Studies Association conference, and future policy planning and implementation.

Because the GDS website has some technical problems, La’o Hamutuk posted these reports on our website (click on each heading to download the report). At present they are mainly in English; we will add Tetum versions as they become available.

2011 Household Income and Expenditure Survey

Between January 2011 to January 2012, GDS interviewed 4,800 households across Timor-Leste (about 2.6% of the total) about their cash and in-kind income and expenditures, as well as other topics. The results, the first for this country, are an invaluable window into people’s lives and Timor-Leste’s economy. The Government delayed publication of the HIES report for a year, removing the calculation of the Poverty Line (to avoid comparison with 2007, when 49.9% of Timor-Leste’s people lived on less than 88 cents/day), but a great deal of useful data remains. Here are a few tidbits:

• The mean (average) monthly income per person is $93 in urban households and $50 in rural ones.
• Less than one-fourth of this is from wages; in rural areas more than half is from agriculture.
• The median per capita monthly income (including in-kind income and imputed rent) is $40 ($24 in Oecusse), meaning that half of Timor-Leste’s people get by on less than $1.33 per day. [With 34% overall inflation from 2007 to 2011, the poverty line is significantly higher than 2007’s 88¢/day.]
• The richest 10% receives nearly 14 times as much income as the poorest 10%.

• Urban people spend more than twice as much as rural people, even when the value of food obtained by labor or barter is included. More than half of rural people spend less than a dollar a day.
• Rural people spend 78% of their household budget on food, of which less than 40% is bartered or produced by themselves.
• 57% of all wage income is paid by the Government.
• Urban households consume four times as much fish and dairy as rural ones, and twice as much meat and vegetables, but rural people eat more rice, tubers and roots.
• Urban households spend seven times as much on beer as rural ones, although rural people spend more on locally-produced alcohol.
• The HIES report also discusses education, age, health, possessions, hunger, crime, smoking, transportation, social benefits, ceremonies and many other issues.

2000-2011 National Accounts

This report, the second of its kind, estimates the size of each component of Timor-Leste’s economy using three methods: production, expenditure and income. In addition to calculating the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and watching it grow over time, the NA report shows money coming into and out of the country, as well as the contribution and trends of various sectors. Among its interesting revelations:

• 80.5% of our GDP in 2011 came from oil and gas extraction. The non-oil GDP was $1.1 billion in current prices, out of a total of $5.8 billion.
• Of the non-oil GDP, 21% was from construction, 20% from public administration, 19% from trade, 17% from agriculture, 8% from real estate and 15% from all other sectors.
• Total non-oil GDP increased 12% from 2010 to 2011. In that time, agriculture shrank by 20% while (mostly state-financed) construction grew by 40% and public administration grew by 25%.
• During 2011, Timor-Leste exported $34 million in goods (excluding oil) and $77m in services, for a total export income of $111 million.
• During 2011, we imported $325 million in goods and $1,033m in services (excluding the oil sector), for a balance of payments deficit of $1.25 billion, 16% higher than in 2010.

2011 Business Activities Survey

GDS interviewed a sample of 1,073 of the 5,273 business registered in Timor-Leste, excluding the petroleum sector but including all large companies operating here, and compared the responses with their 2010 study. Among the interesting results:

• 58,200 people were employed by the private sector at the end of 2011, 75% whom were male, out of a total working age population of more than 600,000.
• Between 2010 and 2011, the number of women employed increased by only 7% while the number of men increased 25%. (This is partly from the large increase in the construction sector, but the gender bias is in most sectors.)

• Although business profits increased by 39% over 2010 (to $355 million), capital expenditure (investing to make the business grow) dropped by 13%. Dili-based businesses re-invested only 9% of their profits in 2011 (down from 20% in 2010), while companies in the districts re-invested 55% (up from 26% in 2010). Although this is partly because foreign companies are primarily registered in Dili, investment was less than 20% of profit in every sector of the economy.

Series 2 Consumer Price Index

Although GDS has sampled prices and published the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for many years, in late 2012 they used the HIES to redesign their methodology, changing the way data is collected, the weights given to different types of products, and publishing separate CPIs for Dili and the rest of Timor-Leste. They recently released reports for the first four months of 2013, the first using the new methodology. These reports and GDS’s explanatory papers are on La’o Hamutuk’s website; future reports will be accessible from the GDS website.

The new reports from the General Directorate for Statistics contain a wealth of data (as does their end-of-2012 Quarterly Statistical Indicators brochure), but there are other sources of useful information. La’o Hamutuk also recently published Mari Alkatiri’s presentation on the proposed Oecusse Special Economic Zone, the Finance Ministry’s Yellow Road Workshop documents describing Timor-Leste’s fiscal situation, and some of the tender and EIA documents for the Suai Airport, Suai Supply Base, and the first phase of the Suai-Beaçu highway. We welcome additional information from all sources.

Presidential concerns about the State Budget

At the end of February, President of the Republic Taur Matan Ruak promulgated the RDTL General State Budget for 2013. At the same time, the President wrote a letter and memorandum to Members of Parliament, expressing his concerns, including about budget execution rates, expensive speculative projects, inflation, low allocation for human development, the Tasi Mane project and unemployment. Many of his suggestions address the same issues as La'o Hamutuk's submission to Parliament.

Although the President's office did not make his letter public, La'o Hamutuk obtained it from Parliament and is making it available in Portuguese and our unofficial English translation, which follows (links and graphics added by La'o Hamutuk).

President of the Republic
GENERAL STATE BUDGET (GSB) FOR 2013
General Notes and Recommendations

1. The President notes that the rate of execution of the State Budget for 2012 will have been about 70%, and this corresponds to spending of approximately USD $1,200 million. In the GSB for 2013, the Ad-hoc Committee submitted an alternative proposal (to the initial proposal of $1,797.5 million) of $1,647 million. This proposal was approved with 64 votes in favor and 1 abstention.

2. Of the total value of the Infrastructure Fund planned for 2012, only 49% of the funds were spent. If you exclude the funds for the electrification project of the country, the rate of execution of the Infrastructure Fund in 2012 was significantly lower: 29%.

3. The total expenditures of the 2013 State Budget are $1,647.519 million, which was reduced by $155 million (-8.3%) from the Government’s initial proposal. This reduction is mainly achieved through reduced expenditure on Development Capital / Infrastructure (-$135 million) and a decrease of $20 million in spending on goods and services. The reduction in goods and services is due to the fact that this budget will be approved 2 months later than what the law determines (1 January 2013).

4. “The $1,501.219 million fiscal deficit of the state budget”, “is financed with $787 million from the Petroleum Fund, $43.6 million through the use of public credit” (soft loans from international donors), “$409.8 million in the balance carried forward from Special Funds” (mainly the Infrastructure Fund), and “$260.8 million from the balance in the Treasury Account.”

5. The President welcomes the reduction in the amount of the state budget compared with last year. However, taking into account the history of low rates of execution,  the President draws attention to the urgent need to complete the execution of this budget. There appears to have been a high tone of optimism in the definition of expenses to carry out, especially for projects that end up not being executed.

6. The President notes that the relative abundance of financial resources has given rise to speculative projects with inflated prices with significantly prejudice to the public interest.

7. The President welcomes the statements made by Members of Parliament as well as the affirmation of the Prime Minister, with respect to the functions of supervision and monitoring of project execution through quarterly meetings to take place between the Parliamentary Standing Committees and the respective members of the Government. The President believes that these actions will better protect the national interest.

8. Average annual rates of inflation reached 13.5% in 2011 and 11.8% in 2012. The President hopes that this GSB can contribute to reducing  inflation that the country has suffered during the last two years. These values greatly reduce the purchasing power of civil servants, mainly those who earn lower wages, and especially citizens with low incomes.

9. The President notes that, on the one hand, in the structure of expenditure in this State Budget, 46% is allocated to the construction of infrastructure, prioritizing spending on electrification of the country, road reconstruction and the Tasi Mane project. On the other hand, there is much less spending in key areas of human development -- education receives only 5.6%, health receives 3.7% -- and agriculture, which involves about 80% of the population, gets only 1.5% of the total budget.

10. The President welcomes the special allocation for Oecusse. However, he regrets the lack of a budget for the “planning” of Dili, the capital of the Republic which welcomes the diplomatic community and is the main gateway to the Country.

11. Regarding the Tasi Mane project on the South Coast, the President understands the reasons that appear to justify not having changed the intended amount. However, he would like to see a public explanation of the reasons for allocating these funds, in particular when compared with other expenses with obvious social utility. For example, two kilometers of highway are likely to cost $20 million and the budget allocated to agriculture is about $25 million.

12. The President was informed that losses caused by illegal fishing amount to more than $200 million per year. The President regrets not finding an adequate response to this problem in this budget, which continues to affect the potential for national fishing.

13. With regard to domestic revenues, the President hopes that the efforts of the Executive for better tax administration and collection of taxes, duties and other revenues will be effective. The President intends to urge firm measures to combat tax evasion and capital flight, which will allow for greater prudence in using money from the Petroleum Fund.

14. Responding to unemployment is an unavoidable necessity. The President hopes that this GSB can generate more permanent jobs, contributing to a significant reduction in poverty that affects more than 50% of households in the interior of our Country. The President also hopes that this budget will contribute to a tangible decrease in the asymmetry between the capital Dili and other districts.

LH asks Australia to respect Timor-Leste's sovereignty

The Australian Parliament recently published 72 submissions to its Inquiry on Australia's relationship with Timor-Leste to the website of the Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs.  La'o Hamutuk was the only Timor-Leste organization to write to the Committee, and we raised the following points.

• Our relationship should be based on mutual respect for sovereign and human rights.
• Timor-Leste’s proximity to Australia is an opportunity, not a risk.
• We appreciate Australian support since 1999, but history still haunts our peoples, as does Australia’s continued theft of Timor-Leste’s oil and gas resources.
• Australia’s generous assistance can meet our people’s needs more effectively by prioritizing human security and reducing unnecessary overhead.
• Timor-Leste and Australia should settle our maritime boundary based on current international law and good-faith arbitration or negotiation, including use of legal processes.
• Australian military forces should be more forthcoming and accountable when their activities here injured or killed Timor-Leste citizens.
• Ties between our peoples provide good examples for better links between our states.

The text of our submission follows, or download a PDF here. We also wrote a background sheet and updated information about our unresolved maritime boundary.

Celebrate La'o Hamutuk's 13th anniversary!

Please join us to celebrate thirteen years of Walking Together with La'o Hamutuk. Although both the nation and the organization have come a long way since 2000, the journey continues.  We invite our friends and colleagues to celebrate our anniversary on

Friday, 24 May 2013

3:00-6:00 pm

La'o Hamutuk's office, Bebora, Dili

Ho laran ksolok ami konvida belun sira hodi mai hamutuk ho ami atu selebra aniversario La'o Hamutuk ba dala 13 iha:

Sesta, 24 Maiu 2013

Oras 15.00-18.00 OTL

Edifisiu La'o Hamutuk, Bebora Dili

Suai Supply Base: benefit or boondoggle?

The centerpiece of Timor-Leste’s Strategic Development Plan is the Tasi Mane Project (TMP), a corridor of petroleum infrastructure along the southwest coast of this country which includes a supply base in Suai (Covalima district), refinery in Betano (Manufahi district), LNG plant in Beaçu (Viqueque district) and a highway to connect them.

This article summarizes La’o Hamutuk’s extensive new web page on the Suai Supply Base (SSB), the first component of TMP. That page has more information, documents, analyses, presentations, maps and graphics, and will be updated regularly.
English: http://www.laohamutuk.org/Oil/TasiMane/13SSBen.htm
Tetum: http://www.laohamutuk.org/Oil/TasiMane/13SSBte.htm

The main project in Suai will be a port (breakwater and jetties), storage yard, warehouses, offices, fuel tank farm, helipad and future industrial park in Kamanasa Suco, Covalima District. Its 1,113 hectares are almost entirely agriculture land, a sacred area for local inhabitants.

In addition to the Supply Base itself, the Covalima components of the Tasi Mane project will include an expansion of Suai airport, a 208-hectare “Nova Suai” new town to house workers from the project, and a divided highway that will eventually go 150 km to Beaçu.

The project originally included a seaport in Suai Loro, which was cancelled because it would have been redundant with the port in the Kamanasa Supply Base, which can also serve as a cargo terminal.

The Supply Base will be built, owned and operated by Timor-Leste’s state-owned oil company TimorGAP and their subcontractors, with estimated operating costs of $8 million per year.

Supply Base construction will be phased over many years, but TimorGAP plans to fence in the entire area in Kamanasa and exclude local use, perhaps as soon as the end 2013.

The rest of this blog posting discusses key issues about the Suai Supply Base, including

• History and current status
• Project cost -- which has multiplied by 14 in less than three years
• Environmental Impact Assessment, including documents and information gaps
• Rough estimate showing that the SSB may not recover its investment
• Suai community views and the recent land transfer

Ho informasaun ita forte - desentraliza ba

Link to this blog in English.

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