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The Other Somalia Part 1 - Illicit Trade And The Hidden Economy, Norman Miller
The Other Somalia Part 1 - Illicit Trade And The Hidden Economy, Norman Miller
Dartmouth Scholarship
In the hot, dry, strangely beautiful land of Somalia, the first issue of the day is politics: politics of survival for the Barre regime, politics of food for the burgeoning refugee camps, politics of the East-West encounter here on the Horn of Africa. The other issue is the economy, particularly the invisible, irregular, illegal economy. Somalia's story is roughly comparable to the current "second economyā€¯ analysis of the Soviet Union which suggests a large sector of that system is extralegal, undercover, and in subversion of bureaucratic regulation-"the taxi driver can arrange it" system.