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Survival Strategies and the State in Somalia

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Somalia’s impending collapse has been confidently predicted for a number of years. Indeed, in conventional wisdom the country at the Horn of Africa is among the poorest in the world. Despite rising quantities of development aid, poverty seems to be spreading, rather than diminishing, at least according to official statistics. ‘Some of the figures advanced are so bizarre… that a sizeable percentage of the population fails even to obtain a sufficient basal metabolic rate, that one has to wonder how the Somali people survive, let alone thrive’ (Jamal, 1987, p. 1).

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  1. Gerald Braun
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  1. University of Vienna, Austria

    Kunibert Raffer (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, Sweden

    M. A. Mohamed Salih (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

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Braun, G. (1992). Survival Strategies and the State in Somalia. In: Raffer, K., Salih, M.A.M. (eds) The Least Developed and the Oil-Rich Arab Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12558-6_8

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