We learn from the passage that despite all the expensive cars found in East Timor, ....... .

It is a poor subsistence economy encompassing half
an island, but it has thousands of expensive fourwheel-
drive vehicles and only a few hundred local
fishing boats. This peculiar imbalance reflects the
rapid changes that East Timor has been through
since its people overwhelmingly dared to vote to
separate from Indonesia over a year ago. In the
weeks after its ballot, eight out of ten of its fishing
craft, which form the main part of its economy, were
destroyed by pro-Indonesian militias in their
determination to cripple the new country at birth.
They also destroyed almost everything else of any
worth. The four-wheel-drive vehicles arrived with the
UN and the waves of international aid workers who
are trying to help the East Timorese put their
country back together again.