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Comparative Politics

Jun 2, 2017

Summary

Somalia has faced numerous challenges to the extent of being named as a failed nation. Some of the challenges have come as a result of increased population. The problem with population increase is not all about the numbers but the consequences which come as result of the increased population. First and foremost, an increase in population is very much beneficial to a nation. A growing economy generates growth in economy. Birth if many children’s leads tom more parents investing more to their young and energetic population. These parents will have to purchase big houses with several bedrooms for their children hence benefiting the economy because this will attract investors to construct more houses so consumer purchase. In return the children mature and get jobs which are good paying and this income is spent in the economy hence economic growth. However, the shortcomings of population growth are the increased food shortage in a nation. For instance, a county like Somalia is a dry nation and its native people haven’t embraced cultivation because they are pastoralist who moves from time to time in search of greener pastures. Another short coming is that an increase in population will lead to increased pressure on employments opportunities. In in some areas this will lead to civil wars because of competition of scarce natural resources as we have seen in Somali land so far (Wimmer, 2008).

Demography it’s simply the study of population and its structure such as age, education and mortality rate. Some research work have proved that population growth is a threat to nations prosperity. Prosperity of Somali land has being put on jeopardy by the rising population growth. This has forced the government to refocus its attention to its people first. Somalia being a dependent nation for both food and financial aid this population rise has hit their government hard because now the government has had to shift all its finances to its people so food, shelter and even clothing. This has put economic growth to a halt because all the finances have being refocused back to the people instead of developing the nation (Visser, 2017).

Resource scarcity is another big deal in Somali land. Somalia lacks both the natural and environmental resources. The lives of Somali people are basically traditional depending on these scarce resources such as water and greener pastures for their herds of cattle. Of all the resources, water is the most essential of them all. In Somalia, water is hardly got; they depend on seasonal rain from the neighboring countries which increases the competition of this already scarce resource. Some politicians in Somalia have taken advantage of this by digging a well so that they can be voted in the government. This is just an hint of how this resource is prestigious in Somali land (Sanders, 2014).

Destabilizing can be viewed as the process by which a smooth running of a nation is interfered with. In Somalia the colonial troops destabilized their economy in the early 1990s. These troops used Somalia as their supply of food after the opening of the Suez Canal. Britain, Italy, France and Ethiopia as a result they divided Somalia among themselves. After the colonial period Somali community had already being destabilized and divided and bring them back together as a nation was a big issues for the newly appointed Somali government (Sontag, 2003).

Moreover, non-state factors have also posed challenges to Somali prosperity. Initially, Somali was viewed as a failed nation until the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and also an attempted attack of an Israeli airline at the port of Mombasa Kenya. Since the all the focus has being shifted to Somalia for it has being viewed as a refuge ground or terrorist. This has led to the invasion of the united nation peace keeping troops and also the Kenya defense forces in order to neutralize this growing terror groups in Somali land. This invasion limits nation’s growth for the country is partially controlled by troops who come with mass destruction weapons hence limiting infrastructure growth (Kruizenga, 2010).

References

Wimmer, 2008 Constitutional mismatch repair-deficiency syndrome: have we so far seen only the tip of an iceberg? Human Genetics

Visser, 2017 “Because we're all different” – Everyday experiences of belonging among young people from immigrant backgrounds in Tottenham Geoforum

Sanders, 2014 Body & brain: Dog brain areas respond to voices: MRIs hint at how pups understand human communication Science News

Sontag 2003 An example of a gas system which can be destabilized by an integrable perturbation IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Kruizenga, 2010 Teaching Somali Children: What Perceived Challenges Do Somali Students Face in the Public-School System? International Journal of Education