Somalia, 29 May 2021

Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher’s Blog on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade

In this blog, I focus each time on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade in a certain country or territory in terms of how Location Factors (Political, Economic, Technological, Legal and Cultural) and Entry Modes (e.g. M&As, Export and Greenfield) impact the attractiveness - or vice versa - the risks of FDI and International Trade in the specific country or territory.

Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland – Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade

Somaliland and Puntland

• Somaliland is a self-declared sovereign state yet internationally considered as part of Somalia.

Population: 3.5 Million

Parliament of Somaliland

Somaliland profile - BBC News

• Puntland is a self-declared territory as an autonomous state within Somalia.

Population: 2.0 Million

Puntland profile - BBC News

Information and Data on FDI and International Trade

Investing in Somalia - Lloyds Bank International Trade Portal (lloydsbanktrade.com)

Trade Profile - Somalia - Lloyds Bank International Trade Portal (lloydsbanktrade.com)

Somalia - United States Department of State

Somaliland fulfilled many of the basic requirements to attract foreign direct investment and winning investor confidence. | Somaliland Chronicle

Somaliland Listed As UAE’s Biggest FDI Recipient | Saxafi (saxafimedia.com)

Foreign minister looks to put Somaliland on FDI map | fDi Intelligence – Your source for foreign direct investment information - fDiIntelligence.com

www.somalilandinvest.net

Somaliland. An Investment Guide to Somaliland Opportunities & Conditions

Macro Data

Somalia | Data (worldbank.org)

Somalia and the IMF

General Information and Political Information

Somalia - The World Factbook (cia.gov)

Somalia country profile - BBC News

Somaliland profile - BBC News

Puntland profile - BBC News

Relevant Research Papers and Research Books

State Building in De Facto States: Somaliland and Puntland Compared on JSTOR

Hoehne, M. V. (2015). Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, militarization and conflicting political visions. Rift Valley Institute.

How Piracy is Affecting Economic Development in Puntland, Somalia on JSTOR

News media and political contestation in the Somali territories: defining the parameters of a transnational digital public: Journal of Eastern African Studies: Vol 13, No 1 (tandfonline.com)

Project MUSE - From Pre-Colonial Past to the Post-Colonial Present: The Contemporary Clan-Based Configurations of Statebuilding in Somalia (jhu.edu)

Between Somaliland and Puntland | African Affairs | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Adapting UN Sustainable Development Goals to Somali Situation: Using Puntland Somalia as a Case Study | Issa-Salwe | Journal of Sustainable Development Studies (infinitypress.info)

Beyond Polarity: Negotiating a Hybrid State in Somaliland - Michael Walls, Steve Kibble, 2010 (sagepub.com)

Revenues on the hoof: livestock trade, taxation and state-making in the Somali territories: Journal of Eastern African Studies: Vol 15, No 1 (tandfonline.com)

Frontiers | Foreign Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing in Somali Waters Perpetuates Conflict | Marine Science (frontiersin.org)

328753-Somalia and Yemen's Cross-border Maritime Economy .pdf (dehai.org)

The Future of Somaliland Livestock Exports: Examining the Sustainability of Livestock Trade (ijmae.com)

Order beyond the state: explaining Somaliland's avoidance of maritime piracy - ProQuest

The “Borderlandization” of the Horn of Africa in Relation to the Gulf Region, and the Effects on Somalia: Journal of Borderlands Studies: Vol 0, No 0 (tandfonline.com)

Politics of circulation: The makings of the Berbera corridor in Somali East Africa - Finn Stepputat, Tobias Hagmann, 2019 (sagepub.com)

Trusting in Somalia’s stateless money: The persistence of the Somali shilling | African Affairs | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Somalia | SpringerLink

Public Policy and Politics via Documentaries and in-Depth TV NewsPrograms

Documentaries and in-Depth TV News programs usually reflect a certain viewpoint.ZRB

Somaliland 30th Anniversary Documentary - YouTube

Somaliland vs Somalia | Inside Story - YouTube

History and Important History Events

A Modern History of Somalia | Taylor & Francis Group (taylorfrancis.com)

Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group 2005-2012 - ProQuest

Somalia: The Forgotten Story | Al Jazeera World - YouTube

Other Issues

Counter piracy programming and potential barriers to reintegrating Somali pirates: An African restorative justice critique - ScienceDirect

Building peace from the margins in Somalia: The case for political settlement with Al-Shabaab: Contemporary Security Policy: Vol 39, No 4 (tandfonline.com)

War and Peace in Somalia: National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab - Google Books