Constituting Development in Somaliland
Constituting Development in SomalilandGlobal Prosperity Initiative
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The Social Change Project at the Mercatus Center presented a lecture by Sujai Shivakumar, Senior Program Officer at the National Academies. Dr. Shivakumar discussed the importance of crafting institutions for economic development and shared his experiences from advising the Somaliland government and civil society on developing a constitution.
Institutions matter for development because they represent a shared understanding within a community of the rules we need to cooperate successfully with each other. Many assume that the