Somalia Better Off Stateless

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Can you name one major institutional Infrastructure Somalia's Revolutionary Council (SRC) build without Donors help? SRC lack of institutional planning and Development achievement helps Pro-anarchism argue rationally Somalia is better off Stateless.

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"Could anarchy be good for Somalia's development? If state predation goes unchecked government may not only fail to add to social welfare, but can actually reduce welfare below its level under statelessness. Such was the case with Somalia's government, which did more harm to its citizens than good. The government's collapse and subsequent emergence of statelessness opened the opportunity for Somali progress. This paper uses an event study to investigate the impact of anarchy on Somali development. The data suggest that while the state of this development remains low, on nearly all of 18 key indicators that allow pre- and post-stateless welfare comparisons, Somalis are better off under anarchy than they were under government. Renewed vibrancy in critical sectors of Somalia's economy and public goods in the absence of a predatory state are responsible for this improvement."


Reference

1. http://www.peterleeson.com/Better_Off_Stateless.pdf

Contact Information
Peter T. Leeson (Contact Author)
George Mason University - Department of Economics ( pleeson@gmu.edu)
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
United States
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