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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Old ethnographic maps from the early twentieth century , which showed what clans supposedly occupied what territories at the time , were attached to support the elders ' claims ( see UNOSOM 1994b ) . Terms like ' indigenous ' , ' clan ' ...
Old ethnographic maps from the early twentieth century , which showed what clans supposedly occupied what territories at the time , were attached to support the elders ' claims ( see UNOSOM 1994b ) . Terms like ' indigenous ' , ' clan ' ...
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In the 1987–8 drought , an early set of decisions revolved around whether or not to migrate animals and , if so , which stock species and to what locations . The responses to these were to affect other choices later on , particularly ...
In the 1987–8 drought , an early set of decisions revolved around whether or not to migrate animals and , if so , which stock species and to what locations . The responses to these were to affect other choices later on , particularly ...
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During the 1970s the dominance of Saudi Arabia as a market for Somali cattle had grown rapidly , and by the early 1980s it accounted for more than 95 percent of the external market for Somali cattle . In volume alone , the expansion of ...
During the 1970s the dominance of Saudi Arabia as a market for Somali cattle had grown rapidly , and by the early 1980s it accounted for more than 95 percent of the external market for Somali cattle . In volume alone , the expansion of ...
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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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