Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States: The Case of Somali-Inhabited Eastern Horn of Africa

Ken Menkhaus

No wp-2014-002, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in other Somali-inhabited regions of the eastern Horn, and have been especially present at the local and municipal level. The most effective aid to institution-building in Somalia has been carefully calibrated support to hybrid local governance arrangements that enjoy a strong degree of local ownership and which deliver practical, urgently needed services.

Keywords: Economic development; Economic policy; International agencies; Local government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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