LEADER 04306nam 22006615 450 001 9910523771703321 005 20230810173952.0 010 $a9783030875565$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030875558 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-87556-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6838937 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6838937 035 $a(CKB)20275216500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-87556-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920275216500041 100 $a20211220d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMarketplace Trade and West African Urban Development $eA Paradox /$fby Krys Ochia 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Ochia, Krys Marketplace Trade and West African Urban Development Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030875558 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Marketplace entrepreneurs, Mobility Infrastructure & Linkages -- Chapter 3: Onitsha: The Largest market in Nigeria - One of the largest in West Africa -- Chapter 4: Challenges Facing Urban Marketplace Traders -- Chapter 5: Attributes Impacting Out-of-Stall Business Contacts -- Chapter 6: A Geography of Contacts in a Large Urban Marketplace -- Chapter 7: Sustainability of Marketplace Institution -- Chapter 8: Strategies for Improving Urban Development - Addressing the Paradox. 330 $aThis book analyses how nformal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities. According to the World Bank, being an African reduces the probability that an individual is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing sector by more than 95 percent. Exporting unprocessed strategic raw materials and importing large volumes of finished goods stagnate Africa's informal sector while creating formal jobs overseas. This suggests employment increases in distributive trade and persistence of the marketplace institution in reducing urban unemployment and income inequality. However, there is limited knowledge of the men and women with permanent stalls in large urban marketplaces that function daily as a temporary city within a city, even though they are the major actors in distribute trade. More important their daily out-of-stall contacts resulting from maintaining complex social and economic relationships that determine the financial health of family, business, and the economy are generally unexplored and largely unknown, but have significant unintended consequences on the urban mobility system. Researchers, planners, development practitioners and policymakers have, therefore, not focused their attention and considered the impacts of the powerful economic institution - marketplaces and traders - in framing transport planning processes and urban development policies, and that is the paradox surrounding marketplace trade and urban development in West Africa. Krys Ochia is currently in charge of transit planning for a regional transit system in Florida, and has taught at Portland State, Washington State, and George Mason Universities. 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 606 $aUrban policy 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aDevelopment Studies 606 $aAfrican Politics 606 $aUrban Policy 606 $aUrban Sociology 606 $aHuman Geography 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aAfrica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aUrban policy. 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 14$aDevelopment Studies. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 615 24$aUrban Policy. 615 24$aUrban Sociology. 615 24$aHuman Geography. 676 $a338.966 676 $a330.966 700 $aOchia$b Krys Chukwuma$01256792 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910523771703321 996 $aMarketplace trade and West African urban development$92913026 997 $aUNINA