Economy Without State: Accumulation & Survival in SomaliaJames Currey, 2003 - 224 pages |
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Page 142
... SoSh and final payments are made in SoSh or US dollars , the actual handling of cash in large transactions is minimal . Somali border traders - like those discussed in Chapter 5 - can take their earnings to Nairobi , convert them to ...
... SoSh and final payments are made in SoSh or US dollars , the actual handling of cash in large transactions is minimal . Somali border traders - like those discussed in Chapter 5 - can take their earnings to Nairobi , convert them to ...
Page 145
... SoSh showed particular strength after 1995 , even when compared to government - supported currencies in neighboring countries . From July 1995 to February 1999 the value of the Somali shilling declined from about 6,500 to 8,200 SoSh per ...
... SoSh showed particular strength after 1995 , even when compared to government - supported currencies in neighboring countries . From July 1995 to February 1999 the value of the Somali shilling declined from about 6,500 to 8,200 SoSh per ...
Page 146
... SoSh was at 13,000 per $ 1 , a decline of about 30 percent in only three months , and by the end of 2001 the currency had plummeted to about SoSh 22,000 per US dollar . Business leaders met with the new government and voiced their ...
... SoSh was at 13,000 per $ 1 , a decline of about 30 percent in only three months , and by the end of 2001 the currency had plummeted to about SoSh 22,000 per US dollar . Business leaders met with the new government and voiced their ...
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Absame activities Afmadow Ahmed animals annual Aulihan author's field notes Baidoa Barre Besteman border region brokers camel cattle cattle trade Chapter conflict costs cross-border trade Development Dinsoor drought dry season earlier Ethiopia export trade faction Food Security FSAU Garissa District global government's collapse grazing groups Harti herders herds Horn of Africa important Jamaame Jubba River Jubba Valley Kenya Kenyan markets Kismayo town livestock livestock exports livestock trade Lower Jubba Region major Marehan Menkhaus merchants middlemen militia milk mobility Mogadishu Mohamed Zubeyr Mombasa moved Nairobi nomadic Ogadeen overseas export pastoral pastoralists percent political population Puntland purchase recent refugee remittances rural Samatar Saudi sector segmentary Siad Barre social Somali borderlands Somali economy Somali herders Somali shilling Somaliland SoSh southern Somalia stateless trader interview trans-border transport UNDP UNOSOM urban warlords water points