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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Page 107
... middleman interchangeably . The number of middlemen that most livestock traders dealt with changed very little during the 1990s . On average traders currently work with about two or three different middlemen during the year , and about ...
... middleman interchangeably . The number of middlemen that most livestock traders dealt with changed very little during the 1990s . On average traders currently work with about two or three different middlemen during the year , and about ...
Page 108
... middlemen of different clans . The work of a middleman is difficult , as s / he must move among home- steads , grazing camps , and small bush markets looking for good - quality animals to purchase . Only by piecing together multiple ...
... middlemen of different clans . The work of a middleman is difficult , as s / he must move among home- steads , grazing camps , and small bush markets looking for good - quality animals to purchase . Only by piecing together multiple ...
Page 120
... middlemen and would delay full payment to them until after the animals had been exported . With the decline in cattle exports after 1983 , he continued to export a small number of camels . During 1986 to 1988 he neither bought nor sold ...
... middlemen and would delay full payment to them until after the animals had been exported . With the decline in cattle exports after 1983 , he continued to export a small number of camels . During 1986 to 1988 he neither bought nor sold ...
Contents
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