Somalia: Economy Without StateDoes statelessness necessarily mean anarchy and disorder? Clan elders, religious leaders and businessmen have worked together to provide stability and security in large parts of Somalia. Urban centres continue to suffer violence, political chaos and economic disruption. Do money, international trade and investment survive without a state? Somalia has been without a state, a Ministry of Finance, or a central bank, but the Somali Shilling was more stable during the second half of the 1990s than during the 1980s. Economic agreements with transnational firms and sovereign states go ahead. Do town-dwellers fare as well as pastoralists? With the collapse of the state, herders and traders have benefited from reduced restrictions on movement and there is a booming unofficial export and import trade. Settled populations have fared less well. Do pastoralists care about development and social improvement? Throughout the Horn western-funded development projects have had disastrous results. Nevertheless the Somalis have selectively accepted certain elements; phone and internet services are surprisingly cheap.BR> Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press |
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Market channels Prior to 1991 the cattle trade in the border region was essentially focused on four markets , which accounted for about 90 percent of the region's sales . First was the regional domestic trade that was concentrated in ...
Market channels Prior to 1991 the cattle trade in the border region was essentially focused on four markets , which accounted for about 90 percent of the region's sales . First was the regional domestic trade that was concentrated in ...
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In 1996 information was sought on 27 traders of Afmadow and surrounding areas who had been interviewed in 1987 and 1988. ... As was explained in Chapter 5 , livestock prices in the border region are less volatile than prices for grains ...
In 1996 information was sought on 27 traders of Afmadow and surrounding areas who had been interviewed in 1987 and 1988. ... As was explained in Chapter 5 , livestock prices in the border region are less volatile than prices for grains ...
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These schools are widespread , especially in the settled and urban areas . ... At least three times during the 1990s cholera epidemics killed hundreds of Somalis in the border region , and the El Nino storms of 1997–8 created a massive ...
These schools are widespread , especially in the settled and urban areas . ... At least three times during the 1990s cholera epidemics killed hundreds of Somalis in the border region , and the El Nino storms of 1997–8 created a massive ...
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User Review - thewalkinggirl - LibraryThingArgues that despite political, social, and environmental instability, the Somali society and economy have survived. The author focuses on the Somali borderlands adjacent to Kenya, comparing that ... Read full review
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| Title | Somalia: Economy Without State Volume 17 of African issues Somalia: Economy Without State, Peter D. Little |
| Author | Peter D. Little |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | International African Institute, 2003 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2017 |
| ISBN | 0852558651, 9780852558652 |
| Length | 206 pages |
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