African Studies Abstracts Online: number 53, 2016

ASA Online provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASC library. Issue 53 (2016). African Studies Centre, Leiden

The Somalia social and institutional profile: an executive summary

African Studies Center Working Paper No. 79OBJECTIVES The overall objectives of the report are to examine the explicit and implicit socioeconomic assumptions that have informed development planning in Somalia in light of available information about the ways its peoples are organized and make a living, and on the basis of this examination, to recommend modifications in policies, programs, and projects intended to increase the effectiveness of development assistance in Somalia, and identify critical issues for future research