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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... depended on his own Harti clansmen who had benefited from the overseas cattle trade and other urban - based businesses . Morgan was a general in the Barre military who was best known for his vicious military campaign in 1988 against ...
... depended on his own Harti clansmen who had benefited from the overseas cattle trade and other urban - based businesses . Morgan was a general in the Barre military who was best known for his vicious military campaign in 1988 against ...
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... depended on government veterinary services and products , even prior to its collapse . Instead , they relied on unofficial channels to obtain drugs from private traders , a pattern that also was evident during 1996 to 1999. Herders ...
... depended on government veterinary services and products , even prior to its collapse . Instead , they relied on unofficial channels to obtain drugs from private traders , a pattern that also was evident during 1996 to 1999. Herders ...
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... depended upon by literally thousands of Somali families in the region and around the world , is now tragically closed . While it remains so , some recent entrepreneurs have started another private bank in the country and there is ...
... depended upon by literally thousands of Somali families in the region and around the world , is now tragically closed . While it remains so , some recent entrepreneurs have started another private bank in the country and there is ...
Contents
A land of livestock | 22 |
The destruction of ruralurban relations | 45 |
Boom times in a bust state | 84 |
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Absame activities Afmadow 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 Dinsoor drought dry season earlier Ethiopia example export trade faction Garissa District global government's collapse grazing groups Harti herders herds homesteads Horn of Africa important IRIN Jamaame Jubba River Jubba Valley Kenya Kenyan markets Kismayo town 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 rural Samatar 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 UNDP UNOSOM urban veterinary warlords water points