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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In attempting to resolve political conflicts between the Harti and the Ogadeen in 1993–4 , the UN seemed to mimic earlier Italian - brokered peace settlements of the 1920s that tried the same tactic of playing one clan off against the ...
In attempting to resolve political conflicts between the Harti and the Ogadeen in 1993–4 , the UN seemed to mimic earlier Italian - brokered peace settlements of the 1920s that tried the same tactic of playing one clan off against the ...
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Efforts centered on defining ' traditional homelands of different Harti and Ogadeen groups , as well as other clans in the area , in an effort to claim and ethnically ' cleanse ' certain lands . For instance , in a meeting of clan ...
Efforts centered on defining ' traditional homelands of different Harti and Ogadeen groups , as well as other clans in the area , in an effort to claim and ethnically ' cleanse ' certain lands . For instance , in a meeting of clan ...
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At the time Absame was an identity that was being invoked to try to unite a range of Ogadeen subclans and non - Ogadeen clans , such as the Bartere and Jidwaag ( see Fig . 3.1 ) . It was emphasized by Ogadeen elders and militia leaders ...
At the time Absame was an identity that was being invoked to try to unite a range of Ogadeen subclans and non - Ogadeen clans , such as the Bartere and Jidwaag ( see Fig . 3.1 ) . It was emphasized by Ogadeen elders and militia leaders ...
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Contents
A land of livestock | 21 |
The destruction of ruralurban relations | 45 |
Tough choices | 65 |
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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 | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0852558651, 9780852558652 |
| Length | 206 pages |
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