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 45
... urban sectors , and urbanites maintained livestock herds with rural clansmen . The boundaries between the two sectors were blurred and complementary , ' and goods and information passed readily across the cultural divide between town ...
... urban sectors , and urbanites maintained livestock herds with rural clansmen . The boundaries between the two sectors were blurred and complementary , ' and goods and information passed readily across the cultural divide between town ...
Page 56
... urban relations in the region , the significance of this is that wealthy herders tend to have : ( 1 ) access to larger traders and more lucrative markets ; ( 2 ) some involvement in non - farm ( town - based ) economic activities ; and ...
... urban relations in the region , the significance of this is that wealthy herders tend to have : ( 1 ) access to larger traders and more lucrative markets ; ( 2 ) some involvement in non - farm ( town - based ) economic activities ; and ...
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... urban producers and urban - based milk traders who reside permanently in the location , insuring that the product is available throughout the year . The normal method of transporting milk to urban markets is by foot or by small pickup ...
... urban producers and urban - based milk traders who reside permanently in the location , insuring that the product is available throughout the year . The normal method of transporting milk to urban markets is by foot or by small pickup ...
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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