The Death of Makola and Other Tragedies

Robertson, Claire

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“…However, only a limited number of studies have focused on market women in Ghana. These include empirical studies on market women in Accra (Robertson, 1976, 1983, 1995, Rocksloh-Papendieck, 1992, Westwood, 1984, Dinan, 1977, Campbell, 1985 and on Asante market women in Kumasi (Clark, 1989, Clark and Manuh, 1991. A common topic of these empirical studies is their focus on the effects of the economic crisis of the early 1980s on coping strategies of market women.…”

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Credit for What? Informal Credit as a Coping Strategy of Market Women in Northern Ghana

Schindler

2010

Journal of Development Studies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract This paper analyzes the use of informal credit as a coping strategy against risk by market women in the city of Tamale, Ghana. Using qualitative research techniques, the analysis reveals that intra-household structure and allocation decisions determine these market-based coping strategies. Market women invest a considerable amount of working hours in maintaining complex credit networks as a safeguard against extreme risks. As a policy implication, this research suggests to provide market women with access to formal, reliable and long-term microfinance institutions, both to improve their ability to cope with risks and to reduce the risks they face. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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Section: Review Of Recent Literature and Gapsmentioning

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Credit for What? Informal Credit as a Coping Strategy of Market Women in Northern Ghana

Schindler

2010

Journal of Development Studies

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“…Following the economic downturn in the early 1980s, the market situation was characterized by a decline in gross domestic product, falling prices and inflation, thus hoarding and black marketing of goods were practiced by most traders (Robertson, ). The visible role of the Makola market women at that time placed them in a bad position and as noted by Robertson (), Makola market women were left to bear the brunt of public displeasure provoked by shortages in goods, invisible inflation, decline in terms of trade, corruption, and incompetence. While the government played on people's resentment in trumpeting the overwhelming power of market women, it demonstrated the punyness of that power by razing the Makola market (Robertson, : 469).…”

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It's not all about wealth and beauty: Changing perceptions of fatness among Makola market women of Accra, Ghana

Wrigley-Asante

Agyei‐Mensah

Obeng

2017

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Within the African context, body shape preferences may be influenced by culture without necessarily taking into consideration health implications. Thus, fatness is culturally associated with beauty, prosperity, and prestige while thinness is perceived as a sign of ill‐health or poverty. Using a cross section of Makola market women, who traditionally are perceived as fat and affluent, our findings revealed that the perception of fatness as a sign of richness and beauty is changing due to women's access to knowledge and information on the health implications of fatness. The challenge for these women however, is adhering to healthy lifestyles despite living sedentary lives in the market place which is a conducive environment for one to become fat. We recommend that qualified professionals should encourage these women through continuous programmes on regenerative health and nutrition aimed at healthy lifestyle behaviour at the market places. The social groups that women belong to should be targeted, trained and equipped with the right information on healthy living so that they can disseminate this information to other members of their networks.

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“…Ghanaian marketplaces have been sites of previous ethnographic examination ( Chamlee-Wright, 1997;Clark, 1994;Darkwah, 2002;Lentz & Nugent, 2000;Overa, 2007;Robertson, 1983;Seligmann, 2001). Studies of Chinese traders in Africa (Hsu's, 2007;Srebrnik, 1999) and in Ghana (Ho, 2008) exist as well; however, they often overlook the possibility of mutual influences.…”

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Contact and identity: The experience of ‘China goods’ in a Ghanaian marketplace

Liu

2010

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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The rise in Chinese traders and increased availability of low-cost imported goods benefits consumers, challenges local African retailers and is a point of tension in local communities. China's presence in Africa has been largely discussed and analysed through a political economy perspective. The social impact in local communities has been documented anecdotally but has yet to be empirically studied. This study took place in Makola Market, Accra, Ghana, to investigate the emerging intergroup encounters between established Ghanaian traders and nascent Chinese traders. Photo-elicited semistructured interviews were conducted to explore how their interrelated experiences shape their interpretative framework and inform the dialectic of contact and social identity. I draw on these interpretative frameworks to propose a new model of contact, the Tri-relational Contact Model, to capture and highlight how people's experiences include contact relationships with not just each other, but also with their places of business and the goods of trade. The findings from this study empirically highlight the micro-level impact of China's presence in Ghana and help re-conceptualize the contact hypothesis through a new model of contact with greater analytical utility to explicate the relational nature of contact and social identity formation.

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The Death of Makola and Other Tragedies

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Credit for What? Informal Credit as a Coping Strategy of Market Women in Northern Ghana

Credit for What? Informal Credit as a Coping Strategy of Market Women in Northern Ghana

It's not all about wealth and beauty: Changing perceptions of fatness among Makola market women of Accra, Ghana

Contact and identity: The experience of ‘China goods’ in a Ghanaian marketplace

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