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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Although the current situation is an extreme case , turbulent conditions characterized the region for much of the past century . The cattle trade , for example , was disrupted by colonial policies of both the British and Italian ...
Although the current situation is an extreme case , turbulent conditions characterized the region for much of the past century . The cattle trade , for example , was disrupted by colonial policies of both the British and Italian ...
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It is not a reliable market today , unlike the past when it was treated by merchants as a ' fallback ' market . To quote a recent journalist's account : ' Kismayo has proved a dangerous place for aid workers in the past .
It is not a reliable market today , unlike the past when it was treated by merchants as a ' fallback ' market . To quote a recent journalist's account : ' Kismayo has proved a dangerous place for aid workers in the past .
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7 Conclusions : 57 Somalia in a wider Context a At the end of this century it has for the first time become possible to see what a world may be like in which the past , including the past in the present , has lost its role , in which ...
7 Conclusions : 57 Somalia in a wider Context a At the end of this century it has for the first time become possible to see what a world may be like in which the past , including the past in the present , has lost its role , in which ...
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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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