You only have to look at the budgets of similar sized but well-managed countries like Rwanda ($5 billion) or Senegal ($8.5 billion) to realise Somalia is nowhere near where it should be in terms of tax-collection or what it could raise, be it traditional or digital. Its agricultural belt is not optimised, its ports and Blue Economy aren’t optimised, its airspace isn’t optimised, its digital tax on the telecom industry isn’t optimised. Billions and billions left on the table.
Senegal’s health budget alone is $450 million, imagine what kind of impact that sort of allocation would have on the Somali Healthcare industry?