Local Development and Politics in Mokha (abstract)

In Yemen, as in many other countries, the problems of economic and social development are inseparable from local politics. In the 1960’s, the associations appeared on the public scene, at the time when the newly born Arab Republic of Yemen struggled to improve its economic and social situation by encouraging local initiatives. However, these initiatives, at first vigorously formulated, were very soon impeded and appropriated by the state. From the publication of the first law concerning the a..