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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... herders would move in and occupy them . After a period of about four years some Marehan herders decided to remain in the area for most of the year , in effect becoming permanent residents . The process accelerated in late 1988 when ...
... herders would move in and occupy them . After a period of about four years some Marehan herders decided to remain in the area for most of the year , in effect becoming permanent residents . The process accelerated in late 1988 when ...
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Economy Without State Peter D. Little. herders the richest 12.5 percent of herders own nearly 70 percent of the camels in the region , while 12.5 percent own 39 percent of total cattle . The bottom 50 percent of pastoralists , in turn ...
Economy Without State Peter D. Little. herders the richest 12.5 percent of herders own nearly 70 percent of the camels in the region , while 12.5 percent own 39 percent of total cattle . The bottom 50 percent of pastoralists , in turn ...
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... herders forcefully resist aspects of modernity that threaten their livelihoods , they embrace modern inputs , such as veterinary medicines , that have proven effective . Chapters 2 and 3 showed how local herders rarely depended on ...
... herders forcefully resist aspects of modernity that threaten their livelihoods , they embrace modern inputs , such as veterinary medicines , that have proven effective . Chapters 2 and 3 showed how local herders rarely depended on ...
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Abdi Absame activities Afmadow Ahmed animals annual Aulihan author's field notes Baidoa Barre Besteman border region brokers camels cattle cattle trade Chapter commerce conflict costs cross-border trade Development Dinsoor drought dry season earlier Ethiopia export trade factions Food Security FSAU Garissa District global government's collapse grazing groups Harti herders herds Horn of Africa important Jamaame Jubaland 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 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