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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... ( town - based ) economic activities ; and ( 3 ) consumption and expenditure patterns that are different from other pastoralists . Those herders with more livestock were likely in the pre- war period to have non - pastoral investments in ...
... ( town - based ) economic activities ; and ( 3 ) consumption and expenditure patterns that are different from other pastoralists . Those herders with more livestock were likely in the pre- war period to have non - pastoral investments in ...
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... town . They maintained camels in their herd , because they are more reliable milk producers than cattle in a dry environment . For example , from 1987 to 1988 very few cattle herders in the Kismayo area sold milk , while 46 percent of ...
... town . They maintained camels in their herd , because they are more reliable milk producers than cattle in a dry environment . For example , from 1987 to 1988 very few cattle herders in the Kismayo area sold milk , while 46 percent of ...
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... town of widespread opportunity , where fortunes can be made as well as lost . In contrast , the town is considered a ' punishment ' for most Kenyan civil servants . A government employee who is posted there from outside of the district ...
... town of widespread opportunity , where fortunes can be made as well as lost . In contrast , the town is considered a ' punishment ' for most Kenyan civil servants . A government employee who is posted there from outside of the district ...
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