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. Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press |
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... region . ( Daily Nation , 7 January 1999 ) and other such incidents occurred in the 1990s ( Reuters 1998 ) . In contrast to the overseas trade , a large percentage of traders involved in the cross - border trade to Kenya reside in the ...
... region . ( Daily Nation , 7 January 1999 ) and other such incidents occurred in the 1990s ( Reuters 1998 ) . In contrast to the overseas trade , a large percentage of traders involved in the cross - border trade to Kenya reside in the ...
Page 87
... border region was essentially focused on four markets , which accounted for about 90 percent of the region's sales . First was the regional domestic trade that was concentrated in southern Somali towns like Kismayo , Jamaame , and Gelib ...
... border region was essentially focused on four markets , which accounted for about 90 percent of the region's sales . First was the regional domestic trade that was concentrated in southern Somali towns like Kismayo , Jamaame , and Gelib ...
Page 129
... region . The vast majority of the traders from 1987-8 , however , were still involved in trade , either as suppliers of cattle to Kenyan - based traders or as merchants who brought their own animals across the border . As was explained ...
... region . The vast majority of the traders from 1987-8 , however , were still involved in trade , either as suppliers of cattle to Kenyan - based traders or as merchants who brought their own animals across the border . As was explained ...
Contents
Introduction to a stateless economy | 2 |
A land of livestock | 22 |
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Absame activities Afmadow Ahmed animals annual Aulihan author's field notes Baidoa border areas border region brokers camel cattle cattle trade Chapter commerce communities conflict costs cross-border trade Dinsoor drought dry season earlier Ethiopia example export trade faction Garissa District global government's collapse grazing groups Harti herders herds homesteads Horn of Africa important Jamaame Jubba River Jubba Valley Kenya Kenyan markets Kismayo town livestock livestock trade Lower Jubba Region major Marehan Menkhaus merchants middlemen migrate militia milk mobility Mogadishu Mohamed Zubeyr moved movements Nairobi Ogadeen overseas export pastoral pastoralists percent political population Puntland purchase recent refugee remittances rural Samatar 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 UNDP unofficial UNOSOM urban veterinary warlords water points
Bibliographic information
| Title | Somalia: Economy Without State African issues |
| Author | Peter D. Little |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | International African Institute, 2003 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 085255866X, 9780852558669 |
| Length | 206 pages |
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