From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa
The World Bank Group's Horn of Africa Regional Initiative promotes resilience and economic opportunity in one of the world’s most challenging regions for security and development. Within the region, extreme poverty, vulnerability, fragility, a...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/167291585597407280/The-Borderlands-of-the-Horn-of-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33513 |
| Summary: | The World Bank Group's Horn of
Africa Regional Initiative promotes resilience and economic
opportunity in one of the world’s most challenging regions
for security and development. Within the region, extreme
poverty, vulnerability, fragility, and food insecurity are
disproportionately concentrated in the arid and remote
border regions. But despite its challenges, there are areas
in the borderlands with real economic potential. For
example, the region's international borders have long
allowed communities to benefit from price differentials
through licit and illicit trade (Scott-Villiers 2015).
Pastoralism and trade, the dominant livelihoods in the Horn
of Africa, require the easy movement of people and goods
within and across borders—and continue to heavily rely on
cross-country clan and ethnic affiliations. Local
institutions therefore still play a key role in regulating
and facilitating economic activity and managing conflict,
especially as the formal institutions are often weak or
absent. Even in areas at the periphery of state control, the
borderlands remain highly connected to circuits of global
capital and exchange. |
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