From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa

The World Bank Group's Horn of Africa Regional Initiative promotes resilience and economic opportunity in one of the world’s most challenging regions for security and development. Within the region, extreme poverty, vulnerability, fragility, a...

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spelling okr-10986-335132021-05-25T09:34:18Z From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa World Bank POVERTY VULNERABILITY FRAGILITY CLIMATE IMPACT MOBILITY SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS MIGRATION DEVELOPMENT AID RESILIENCE CONFLICT INEQUALITY TRADE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS POLITICAL ECONOMY GOVERNANCE STATE BUILDING The World Bank Group's Horn of Africa Regional Initiative promotes resilience and economic opportunity in one of the world’s most challenging regions for security and development. Within the region, extreme poverty, vulnerability, fragility, and food insecurity are disproportionately concentrated in the arid and remote border regions. But despite its challenges, there are areas in the borderlands with real economic potential. For example, the region's international borders have long allowed communities to benefit from price differentials through licit and illicit trade (Scott-Villiers 2015). Pastoralism and trade, the dominant livelihoods in the Horn of Africa, require the easy movement of people and goods within and across borders—and continue to heavily rely on cross-country clan and ethnic affiliations. Local institutions therefore still play a key role in regulating and facilitating economic activity and managing conflict, especially as the formal institutions are often weak or absent. Even in areas at the periphery of state control, the borderlands remain highly connected to circuits of global capital and exchange. 2020-03-31T20:50:06Z 2020-03-31T20:50:06Z 2020-03-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/167291585597407280/The-Borderlands-of-the-Horn-of-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33513 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study Africa East Africa Ethiopia Kenya South Sudan Uganda
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topic POVERTY
VULNERABILITY
FRAGILITY
CLIMATE IMPACT
MOBILITY
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
MIGRATION
DEVELOPMENT AID
RESILIENCE
CONFLICT
INEQUALITY
TRADE
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
POLITICAL ECONOMY
GOVERNANCE
STATE BUILDING
spellingShingle POVERTY
VULNERABILITY
FRAGILITY
CLIMATE IMPACT
MOBILITY
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
MIGRATION
DEVELOPMENT AID
RESILIENCE
CONFLICT
INEQUALITY
TRADE
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
POLITICAL ECONOMY
GOVERNANCE
STATE BUILDING
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From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa
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Ethiopia
Kenya
South Sudan
Uganda
description The World Bank Group's Horn of Africa Regional Initiative promotes resilience and economic opportunity in one of the world’s most challenging regions for security and development. Within the region, extreme poverty, vulnerability, fragility, and food insecurity are disproportionately concentrated in the arid and remote border regions. But despite its challenges, there are areas in the borderlands with real economic potential. For example, the region's international borders have long allowed communities to benefit from price differentials through licit and illicit trade (Scott-Villiers 2015). Pastoralism and trade, the dominant livelihoods in the Horn of Africa, require the easy movement of people and goods within and across borders—and continue to heavily rely on cross-country clan and ethnic affiliations. Local institutions therefore still play a key role in regulating and facilitating economic activity and managing conflict, especially as the formal institutions are often weak or absent. Even in areas at the periphery of state control, the borderlands remain highly connected to circuits of global capital and exchange.
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title From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa
title_short From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa
title_full From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa
title_fullStr From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa
title_full_unstemmed From Isolation to Integration : The Borderlands of the Horn of Africa
title_sort from isolation to integration : the borderlands of the horn of africa
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/167291585597407280/The-Borderlands-of-the-Horn-of-Africa
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