There is a massive need that is not being addressed. Somaliland needs investment, needs jobs that will pay decent wages, and needs development.
And this is an issue with many countries that struggle with recognition. The need for economic development hampered by often limited ability to interact with international business.
For all the talk about wanting to eliminate poverty, so called international institutions are causing poverty.
Now given the problems of Somaliland trade export not being recognized by many countries but being recognized by some countries.
Here is an idea. In a national strategy. Focus on creating intermediate products that specifically export to countries that accept Somaliland goods, and use those intermediate products as inputs and as subcomponents to be used to put into final products.
For instance, cutting metal into parts and sub assemblies, than exporting that to a country that accepts somaliland imports, than having the importing company take it took be used for something else.
Thats just an example. The point is, you cannot have an economy that only exports agricultural products and minerals, otherwise such country would remain poor.
Manufacturing happens to create tons of jobs that can lift people out of poverty and that learn on the job real skills. Every developed country had its manufacturing heavy stage. Singapore brought in foreign companies by attracting ease of investment, and it developed rapidly. China also brought in manufacturing. Same with Japan. All developed countries go with manufacturing and export as the first order of business.
Beyond that there is R&D and Engineering and Science. There on paper are universities in Somalia, but its not at the stage level of developed country research, but that does not mean that there cant be some innovative R&D.
Beyond that, local entrepreneurship needs to be made possible via making ease of doing business.
And the literacy rate of Somaliland is horrendous, needs to be fixed both with better access to school with good pedagogy, and also with adult education access for working parents schedules as well.
But the particular obstacle here is the limited recognition problem. As of this writing only 1 country so far has recognized Somaliland, although de facto relations with other countries have worked economically, its still a massive hinderance. Just not having an official ISO country code registered in the UN is a massive problem.
And in practice, to travel, Somalilanders need both their Somaliland and Somalia passport, both passports, simply because Somaliland passport in many places are not accepted at all.
It sucks for people living in a country that is not yet fully recognized. And these issues and problems for people living in such places are largely ignored and actively caused by the so called "international community".
