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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Page 39
... activities . In more than 10 trips to the massive plant during 1987–8 , I found key personnel on the job only twice and was usually told the same line : ' you just missed them . ' With the collapse of the state , there have been some ...
... activities . In more than 10 trips to the massive plant during 1987–8 , I found key personnel on the job only twice and was usually told the same line : ' you just missed them . ' With the collapse of the state , there have been some ...
Page 97
... activities since 1991 is largely due to increases in cross- border trade and the arrival of capital and merchants from neighboring Somalia . In the town self - employed businesses ( i.e. trading enterprises ) have grown much faster than ...
... activities since 1991 is largely due to increases in cross- border trade and the arrival of capital and merchants from neighboring Somalia . In the town self - employed businesses ( i.e. trading enterprises ) have grown much faster than ...
Page 118
... activities as ( in order of importance ) : ( 1 ) retail stores ; ( 2 ) butcheries ; ( 3 ) hides and skins trade ; and ( 4 ) grain trade . This pattern of diversification was also found in the 1987-8 study , but on a smaller scale . Only ...
... activities as ( in order of importance ) : ( 1 ) retail stores ; ( 2 ) butcheries ; ( 3 ) hides and skins trade ; and ( 4 ) grain trade . This pattern of diversification was also found in the 1987-8 study , but on a smaller scale . Only ...
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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
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| Title | Somalia: Economy Without State 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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