http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 08:20:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/05/timor-leste-sustainable-development-initiative-launched-by-the-vale-columbia-center-in-partnership-with-the-revenue-watch-institute-and-the-open-society-foundations/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/05/timor-leste-sustainable-development-initiative-launched-by-the-vale-columbia-center-in-partnership-with-the-revenue-watch-institute-and-the-open-society-foundations/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:50:02 +0000 Emily Rothenberg http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=10270 The Open Society Foundations have awarded $800,000 to the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment to promote integrated development in Timor-Leste in collaboration with the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI). Though rich in oil and gas, the island nation of Timor-Leste remains one of the least developed countries in the world.  To use its revenues [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/05/timor-leste-sustainable-development-initiative-launched-by-the-vale-columbia-center-in-partnership-with-the-revenue-watch-institute-and-the-open-society-foundations/feed/ 0