Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63620 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2005/13
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper addresses informal cross-border trade in the Horn of Africa, with an emphasis on the Somalia borderlands. It will be shown that despite the collapse of a government in 1991, Somalia’s unofficial exports of cattle to Kenya have grown considerably during the past 13 years. It will be argued that while informal exports and imports of animals are illegal in Kenya and Ethiopia, local institutions and agreements allow the trade to function ‘on the ground’ in the absence of official recognition. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of informal cross-border commerce in regions of weak administrative control. – cattle ; livestock ; Somalia ; markets
JEL: 
E26
O17
Q13
L14
ISBN: 
9291906921
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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