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....bedre end et statsapperat er, tilsyneladende:

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Peter T. Leeson - Department of Economics West Virginia University

....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.

....Indicators of Somali welfare remain low in absolute terms, but
compared to their status under government show a marked advance.
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• Under statelessness life expectancy in Somalia has
grown.

• Access to health facilities has increased.

• Infant mortality has dropped.

• Civil liberties have expanded.

• Extreme poverty (less than $1 PPP/day) has plummeted.

• In many parts of the country even security has improved.

....In the year following the state's collapse, civil war, exacerbated by
severe drought, devastated the Sub-Saharan territory killing 300,000
Somalis (Prendergast 1997). For a time it seemed that Somali
statelessness would mean endless bloody conflict, starvation, and an
eventual descent into total annihilation of the Somali people.

Though largely unrecognized by economists, the widespread violence that
ravaged Somalia in its first year without government vanished
considerably by 1994. By the mid-1990s peace prevailed over most of the
country (Menkhaus 1998, 2004). Since 1997 most indicators of Somali
development show slow but steady progress and today are above their
pre-stateless levels.

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Rapporten er her:

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


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