The Timor-Leste Government’s 2011-2013strategic development plan (SDP) outlines its plan forachieving upper-middle income country status, with a secure,well-educated, and healthy population, by 2030. It arguesthat the four key national attributes of political will,economic potential, national integration, and a dynamicpopulation will underpin the achievement of this vision. Thedevelopment of infrastructure is a core pillar of the SDP.Thus, the SDP outlines specific plans for a number of largeconstruction projects for the development of roads andbridges, water and sanitation facilities, electrical powergeneration facilities, telecommunications, and ports. TheSDP recognizes that Timor-Leste currently lacks the coreinfrastructure required to support a modern and productiveeconomy. According to the SDP, government spending oninfrastructure will drive high, double-digit rates ofeconomic growth in the short and medium term, contributingto a rate of growth of 8 percent by 2020. The SDP alsoemphasizes the construction of infrastructure as a means toachieve its stated goals in the pillars of economicdevelopment, notably agriculture, and the development ofsocial capital. The SDP commits the government to asignificant school building program and to the expansion andrehabilitation of health facilities such as local clinicsand hospitals.
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