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A State is Born: Transport Infrastructure and Democracy in Somaliland (2010)
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@MISC{Azam10astate,
author = {Jean-paul Azam and Gani Aldashev and Jean-marie Bal and François Bourguignon and Elise Brezis and Cecilia Garcia and Maitreesh Ghatak and Kalle Moene and Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray and Are Gratefully},
title = {A State is Born: Transport Infrastructure and Democracy in Somaliland},
year = {2010}
}
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Abstract
Abstract: Somaliland has recently developed an unexpected democracy after seceding from chaos-ridden Somalia, while turning its port of Berbera into a success story, competing successfully with the long established ones in the Horn of Africa. A simple game-theoretic model is used to explain why the home-grown democratic institutions that developed in Somaliland are a key factor in making Berbera a credible outlet for the external trade of neighboring landlocked Ethiopia. The model shows that redistributing some of the resources from this trade is a key condition for sustaining this efficient political equilibrium. Acknowledgements: This paper has been presented at the “Political Economy and
