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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... trade has captured the bulk of cattle exports with the collapse of the government and overseas trade . The fourth market , the overseas export trade , was very different from the other three channels , in that large - scale traders and ...
... trade has captured the bulk of cattle exports with the collapse of the government and overseas trade . The fourth market , the overseas export trade , was very different from the other three channels , in that large - scale traders and ...
Page 115
... trade for about 10 years , he has only pursued the cross - border trade since 1994 . Some part - time bush traders , like Abdulcadhir , who were interviewed during 1987-8 are now engaged in cross - border trade . Approximately 45 ...
... trade for about 10 years , he has only pursued the cross - border trade since 1994 . Some part - time bush traders , like Abdulcadhir , who were interviewed during 1987-8 are now engaged in cross - border trade . Approximately 45 ...
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... trade during the 1970s and early 1980s , but also kept his hand in the domestic trade of Kismayo town . He served as an agent for five export traders , of which three were based in the Mogadishu area . When the export trade was good ...
... trade during the 1970s and early 1980s , but also kept his hand in the domestic trade of Kismayo town . He served as an agent for five export traders , of which three were based in the Mogadishu area . When the export trade was good ...
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