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 88
... animals , which are used for slaughter in urban centers and for restocking and breeding purposes on commercial ranches in the Rift Valley . As will be discussed later in this chapter , this trade has captured the bulk of cattle exports ...
... animals , which are used for slaughter in urban centers and for restocking and breeding purposes on commercial ranches in the Rift Valley . As will be discussed later in this chapter , this trade has captured the bulk of cattle exports ...
Page 104
... animals ) to remain very long in an area . The goal is to move the animals as fast as possible to Kenya , and work days of 10-12 hours , seven days a week , are the norm . The Kenyan - based trader may go across the border to purchase ...
... animals ) to remain very long in an area . The goal is to move the animals as fast as possible to Kenya , and work days of 10-12 hours , seven days a week , are the norm . The Kenyan - based trader may go across the border to purchase ...
Page 112
... animals sold quickly , so there were few expenditures on fodder . In very dry months or in times when animal sales are espe- cially slow , considerable costs can be allocated to fodder and to water - as much as five to six times the ...
... animals sold quickly , so there were few expenditures on fodder . In very dry months or in times when animal sales are espe- cially slow , considerable costs can be allocated to fodder and to water - as much as five to six times the ...
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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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