RUcore: Rutgers University Community Repository
Subsistence entrepreneurs: market women as agents of economic development
Descriptive
TitleInfo
Title
Subsistence entrepreneurs: market women as agents of economic development
Name
(type = personal)
NamePart
(type = family)
Okoye
NamePart
(type = given)
Chikanele
DisplayForm
Chikanele Okoye
Role
RoleTerm
(authority = RULIB);
(type = text)
author
Name
(type = personal)
NamePart
(type = family)
Josephson
NamePart
(type = given)
Jyl
DisplayForm
Jyl Josephson
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm
(authority = RULIB)
chair
Name
(type = personal)
NamePart
(type = family)
Alidou
NamePart
(type = given)
Ousseina
DisplayForm
Ousseina Alidou
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm
(authority = RULIB)
internal member
Name
(type = personal)
NamePart
(type = family)
Lindgren
NamePart
(type = given)
Teri
DisplayForm
Teri Lindgren
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm
(authority = RULIB)
internal member
Name
(type = personal)
NamePart
(type = family)
Chuku
NamePart
(type = given)
Gloria
DisplayForm
Gloria Chuku
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm
(authority = RULIB)
outside member
Name
(type = corporate)
NamePart
Rutgers University
Role
RoleTerm
(authority = RULIB)
degree grantor
Name
(type = corporate)
NamePart
Graduate School - Newark
Role
RoleTerm
(authority = RULIB)
school
TypeOfResource
Text
Genre
(authority = marcgt)
theses
Genre
(authority = ExL-Esploro)
ETD doctoral
OriginInfo
DateCreated
(qualifier = exact);
(encoding = w3cdtf);
(keyDate = yes)
2020
DateOther
(type = degree);
(qualifier = exact);
(encoding = w3cdtf)
2020-10
Language
LanguageTerm
(authority = ISO 639-3:2007);
(type = text)
English
Abstract
Market women are a persistent presence in West Africa. The global economy promotes the use of waged employment and the use of formal financial institutions such as banks for the provision of credit facilities. In contrast, the market women are part of the informal employment structure and are suspicious of the formal system which is full of obstacles and hostility in their opinion. Using a framework of Modified Grounded Theory and African Feminist analysis, I found that the women resort to culturally appropriate strategies like isusu, a peer or kin-based rotating credit method, that provides them with credit and the ability to earn a living. They see what they use as female, flexible, and more humane. The use of micro-lending and survival strategies such as ‘sufferness’ and sympathy seeking, in conjunction with cooperatives created by market women’s associations improve the women’s subsistence position. Market women are an African institution. Studying their survival strategies provides insight into creating more sustainable policies for economic development on the African continent. Continuing with similar research provides opportunities for policymakers to seek culturally appropriate solutions to the market women’s precarity and by extension the precarity of African economies in the global system.
Subject
(authority = local)
Topic
African market women
Subject
(authority = RUETD)
Topic
Global Affairs
RelatedItem
(type = host)
TitleInfo
Title
Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier
(type = RULIB)
ETD
Identifier
ETD_11130
PhysicalDescription
Form
(authority = gmd)
InternetMediaType
application/pdf
InternetMediaType
text/xml
Extent
1 online resource (ix, 223 pages)
Note
(type = degree)
Ph.D.
Note
(type = bibliography)
Includes bibliographical references
RelatedItem
(type = host)
TitleInfo
Title
Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier
(type = local)
rucore10002600001
Location
PhysicalLocation
(authority = marcorg);
(displayLabel = Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
NjNbRU
Identifier
(type = doi)
doi:10.7282/t3-nrj0-ew15
Back to the top
Rights
RightsDeclaration
(ID = rulibRdec0006)
The author owns the copyright to this work.
RightsHolder
(type = personal)
Name
FamilyName
Okoye
GivenName
Chikanele
Role
Copyright Holder
RightsEvent
Type
Permission or license
DateTime
(encoding = w3cdtf);
(qualifier = exact);
(point = start)
2020-09-08 20:48:54
AssociatedEntity
Name
Chikanele Okoye
Role
Copyright holder
Affiliation
Rutgers University. Graduate School - Newark
AssociatedObject
Type
License
Name
Author Agreement License
Detail
I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
RightsEvent
Type
Embargo
DateTime
(encoding = w3cdtf);
(qualifier = exact);
(point = start)
2020-10-31
DateTime
(encoding = w3cdtf);
(qualifier = exact);
(point = end)
2022-10-31
Detail
Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 31st, 2022.
Copyright
Status
Copyright protected
Availability
Status
Open
Reason
Permission or license
Back to the top
Technical
RULTechMD
(ID = TECHNICAL1)
ContentModel
ETD
OperatingSystem
(VERSION = 5.1)
windows xp
CreatingApplication
Version
1.7
ApplicationName
Microsoft® Word for Office 365
DateCreated
(point = end);
(encoding = w3cdtf);
(qualifier = exact)
2020-10-14T18:34:12
DateCreated
(point = end);
(encoding = w3cdtf);
(qualifier = exact)
2020-10-14T18:34:12
Back to the top
Statistical Profile