A Micro-assessment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Realities on Small-Scale Vendors in Ghana: China as a Leveraging Resource

IF 0.8 Q2 AREA STUDIES Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI:10.1177/09750878221114378
Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey, Dennis Senam Amable
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Since the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, international relations (IR) literature on the pandemic’s implication on global politics has generally increased, while studies on small businesses and human developmental consequences in the developing world have lagged. In this context, through a micro-level analysis, this article investigates the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic affects the economically bottom-class citizens and their businesses, focusing on small-scale vendors in Ghana. It utilises content analysis to examine 384 small-scale vendors in four cities/towns (Accra, Tema, Sunyani, Ho) in Ghana between August and October 2021. We show that the pandemic has negatively affected economic life and ordinary living conditions by increasing poverty among economically bottom-class citizens, likely to have dire long-term consequences nationally. Further, we contend that the small-scale vendors and entrepreneurs recognise leveraging the increasing Chinese global economic influence. Thus, China provides an exit point through which the people can navigate themselves out of the COVID-19 predicaments. Our study is novel for its first-level—individual—analysis of the impact of COVID-19 in the Ghanaian market space from an IR perspective. It also provides policy relevance.
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2019冠状病毒病对加纳小规模供应商的微观评估:中国作为杠杆资源
自2019冠状病毒病(新冠肺炎)爆发以来,关于疫情对全球政治影响的国际关系(IR)文献普遍增加,而关于发展中国家小企业和人类发展后果的研究则滞后。在此背景下,本文通过微观分析,调查了新冠肺炎疫情对经济最底层公民及其企业的影响程度,重点关注加纳的小规模供应商。它利用内容分析对2021年8月至10月期间加纳四个城镇(阿克拉、特马、苏亚尼、何)的384家小规模供应商进行了调查。我们表明,疫情增加了经济底层公民的贫困,对经济生活和普通生活条件产生了负面影响,可能会在全国范围内产生可怕的长期后果。此外,我们认为,小规模供应商和企业家认识到利用中国日益增长的全球经济影响力。因此,中国提供了一个出口,人民可以通过这个出口走出新冠肺炎的困境。我们的研究是新颖的,从IR的角度对新冠肺炎对加纳市场空间的影响进行了一级个人分析。它还提供了政策相关性。
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期刊介绍: nsight on Africa is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering contemporary African affairs and issues of policy relevance. It focuses on, though not confined to, foreign policies and developmental issues of African countries. The journal specially encourages article submission on issues related to emerging powers in Africa, BRICS in Africa and Afro-Asian relations. The journal is owned by African Studies Association of India (ASA India) located at Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and its publication is managed by Policy Research Institute of African Studies Association (PRIASA) based in New Delhi.
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