Somalia: Economy Without StateInternational African Institute, 2003 - 206 pages Does 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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... cattle owned at different grazing zones , long wet season 75 5.1 Average prices of cattle in selected markets : 1987 ... trade , 1996 and 1998 Transport costs in cross - border cattle trade , 1996 and 1998 105 100 5.6 Trader ...
... cattle owned at different grazing zones , long wet season 75 5.1 Average prices of cattle in selected markets : 1987 ... trade , 1996 and 1998 Transport costs in cross - border cattle trade , 1996 and 1998 105 100 5.6 Trader ...
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... cattle populations in the region are considerably higher than other livestock types ( see Chapter 2 ) . Unlike ... trade in small stock is almost strictly oriented to domestic markets , espe- cially to the larger Somali towns . With the ...
... cattle populations in the region are considerably higher than other livestock types ( see Chapter 2 ) . Unlike ... trade in small stock is almost strictly oriented to domestic markets , espe- cially to the larger Somali towns . With the ...
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... trade have been captured more by livestock traders than herders . Yet , as indicated earlier , without this commerce ... cattle in cases where the cash was used to purchase foodstuffs for their families . As noted earlier , women are rarely ...
... trade have been captured more by livestock traders than herders . Yet , as indicated earlier , without this commerce ... cattle in cases where the cash was used to purchase foodstuffs for their families . As noted earlier , women are rarely ...
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A land of livestock | 21 |
The destruction of ruralurban relations | 45 |
Tough choices | 65 |
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Absame activities Afmadow Africa Ahmed animals annual Aulihan author's field notes Baidoa border areas border region brokers camel cattle cattle trade Chapter commerce communities conflict costs cross-border trade decline Dinsoor drought dry season earlier Ethiopia example exchange export trade faction Garissa District global government's collapse grazing groups Harti herders herds homesteads important Jamaame Jubba River Jubba Valley Kenya Kenyan markets Kismayo town Libooye livestock livestock trade Lower Jubba Region major Marehan Menkhaus merchants middlemen migrate militia milk mobility Mogadishu Mohamed Zubeyr moved movements Nairobi Ogadeen overseas export pastoral pastoralists percent political population Puntland purchase recent refugee remittances Saudi sector segmentary Siad Barre social Somali borderlands Somali diaspora Somali economy Somali herders Somali shilling Somaliland SoSh southern Somalia stateless trader interview trans-border transport tsetse fly UNDP unofficial UNOSOM urban veterinary warlords water points