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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For example , Somali livestock that are imported ' illegally ' into Kenya but openly traded , discussed , and inscribed in daily practice assume official status in the border regions and can even appear in trade statistics .
For example , Somali livestock that are imported ' illegally ' into Kenya but openly traded , discussed , and inscribed in daily practice assume official status in the border regions and can even appear in trade statistics .
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As discussed earlier , it has been an important trade center since the nineteenth century.10 The location of the Lower Jubba , with its sea links to the outside , brings nomadic herders and local traders into close contact with global ...
As discussed earlier , it has been an important trade center since the nineteenth century.10 The location of the Lower Jubba , with its sea links to the outside , brings nomadic herders and local traders into close contact with global ...
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All three trade routes , however , show similarities to the trans - border markets discussed in Chapter 5 in their importance to local economies and food security . The Bulla Hawo - to - Mandera border trade is particularly volatile ...
All three trade routes , however , show similarities to the trans - border markets discussed in Chapter 5 in their importance to local economies and food security . The Bulla Hawo - to - Mandera border trade is particularly volatile ...
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Contents
A land of livestock | 21 |
The destruction of ruralurban relations | 45 |
Tough choices | 65 |
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Absame activities Afmadow Africa Ahmed animals annual Aulihan author's field notes Baidoa border areas border region brokers camel cattle cattle trade Chapter commerce conflict costs cross-border trade Dinsoor District drought dry season earlier Ethiopia example export trade faction food security FSAU Garissa Garissa District global government's collapse grazing groups Harti herders herds important Jamaame Jubba River Jubba Valley Kenya Kenyan markets Kismayo town Libooye livestock livestock trade Lower Jubba Region major Marehan Menkhaus merchants middlemen militia milk mobility Mogadishu Mohamed Zubeyr Mombasa moved Nairobi northeastern Kenya Ogadeen overseas export pastoral pastoralists percent political population Puntland purchase recent refugee remittances rural 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 tsetse fly UNDP UNOSOM urban warlords water points
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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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