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Traders, brokers and market ‘crisis’ in southern Somalia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Peter D. Little
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Cet article étudie le comportement des commerçants de bétail en Somalie du Sud dans les conditions d'un marché précaire, d'un déclin macro-économique et d'un contexte politique instable. L'analyse attire l'attention sur les types de relations bivalentes et de strategies de diversification qui permettent aux commerçants de bétail de supporter les longues périodes de précarité. En distinguant quatre marchés différents et cinq types de facteurs de marché, l'étude s'efforce de démêler les complexités du commerce de bétail dans la Somalie du Sud, et de différencier deux catégories de négociants, ceux qui ont fait du profit, et ceux qui ont pâti des récents changements. L'analyse semble indiquer que, dans la situation actuelle de crise en Somalie, les commerçants qui sont devenus les agents de gros négociants tournés vers l'exportation et centrés sur un marché unique, s'avérent les plus atteints, alors que ceux qui sont établis dans de petits villages et qui sont impliqués dans des marchés à la fois intérieurs et d'exportation ont parfois prospéré. Le commerce de bétail entretenu de façon soit-disant officieuse avec les pays voisins, comme le Kenya, permet à certains groupes de réchapper à un environnement d'une extrême instabilité économique et politique, exceptionnelle même dans un tel contexte comme l'Afrique. L'article conclut par un débat général sur l'importance des relations sociales dans le commerce et sur les réactions des négociants face aux changements survenus dans les indicateurs macro-économiques.

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Africa , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 94 - 124
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Copyright © International African Institute 1992

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