Dispossession and Impoverishment in Timor-Leste: Potential Impacts of the Suai Supply Base. In SSGM Discussion Paper 2015/15

Expropriation of land removes the main foundation upon which people's productive systems, commercial activities, and livelihoods are constructed. This is the principal form of de-capitalization and pauperization of displaced people, as they lose both natural and man-made capital.