Date of Award
Summer 8-8-2017
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Public Management and Policy
First Advisor
Dr. Janelle Kerlin
Second Advisor
Dr. Justice Nyigmah Bawole
Third Advisor
Dr. Steven Black
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Ann-Margaret Esnard
Fifth Advisor
Dr. Dennis R. Young
Abstract
This dissertation uses a mixed method approach to examine the determinants of internal remittances that are connected to the social networks of urban migrant street vendors. Urban street markets are a point of entry for many migrants moving from rural areas to cities in the Global South. The qualitative portion of the dissertation uses an ethnographic approach including participant observation, interviews and focus groups to examine the social networks of street vendors in a market in the municipality of Madina, Ghana. The quantitative analysis codes data from the ethnography in order to conduct a social network analysis using quadratic assignment procedure and logistic regression quadratic assignment procedure to analyze the relationship between attributes of street vendors and remittance behavior. Findings lead to several policy recommendations for the international community, as well as locally based non-governmental organizations, microfinance organizations, national and local governments providing funding or designing interventions affecting street markets or working with individual street vendors.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/10394140
Recommended Citation
Zook, Sandy, "Subsistence Urban Markets and In-Country Remittances: A Social Network Analysis of Urban Street Vendors in Ghana and the Transfer of Resources to Rural Villages." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2017.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/10394140