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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... effectively begun . By early 1988 commercial aircraft in the country , commandeered and converted for military purposes , could frequently be seen in Mogadishu loading up troops and supplies for the north . What I did not know at this ...
... effectively begun . By early 1988 commercial aircraft in the country , commandeered and converted for military purposes , could frequently be seen in Mogadishu loading up troops and supplies for the north . What I did not know at this ...
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... effectively produce and trade Somalia's most valuable commodity , livestock . The Somalia based on arms and urban warlords is markedly different than the Somalia based on livestock and skilled herders and traders . The gap could hardly ...
... effectively produce and trade Somalia's most valuable commodity , livestock . The Somalia based on arms and urban warlords is markedly different than the Somalia based on livestock and skilled herders and traders . The gap could hardly ...
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... effectively manage inventories and to control costs were noticeably absent ( Verdery 1996 ) . Managers were more concerned with meeting their quotas than seeking alternative sources of supply and profit , and pursued silly strategies ...
... effectively manage inventories and to control costs were noticeably absent ( Verdery 1996 ) . Managers were more concerned with meeting their quotas than seeking alternative sources of supply and profit , and pursued silly strategies ...
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