Economy Without State: Accumulation & Survival in SomaliaJames Currey, 2003 - 224 pages |
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... remittances from Somalis working abroad accounted for the bulk of domestic economic value . Remittances alone are said to have brought in annually about $ 200 million in imports and cash and subsidized a vast amount of local consumption ...
... remittances from Somalis working abroad accounted for the bulk of domestic economic value . Remittances alone are said to have brought in annually about $ 200 million in imports and cash and subsidized a vast amount of local consumption ...
Page 150
... Remittances usually are transmitted through the kinds of informal finance houses described earlier in the chapter ... remittances to Somalia greatly increase . At these times the impact on the Somali economy is immediate . For instance ...
... Remittances usually are transmitted through the kinds of informal finance houses described earlier in the chapter ... remittances to Somalia greatly increase . At these times the impact on the Somali economy is immediate . For instance ...
Page 170
... remittances on the Somali economy is enormous and at least partially determined directly or indirectly - by welfare flows . The important role that the Somali diaspora has played in rebuilding the economy is consid- erable , and despite ...
... remittances on the Somali economy is enormous and at least partially determined directly or indirectly - by welfare flows . The important role that the Somali diaspora has played in rebuilding the economy is consid- erable , and despite ...
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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