But, majority of the information for the literature review was sourced from scientific articles and journals. Purposeful searches were carried out conducted on some key scientific databases to obtain the needed information like: (1) http://apps.webofknowledge.com; (The Web of Knowledge) (2) Science directhttp://www.sciencedirect.com; and (3) Scopus; (4) Google Scholar http://scholar.google.dk/. The above mentioned databases together possess a wide and current collection of scientific papers. To search the documents, specific keywords were used such as: Trade “China”, “China etc. These keywords were combined with Boolean Relations”, “Africa” “developing countries”, operators such as ( of such and Africa trade AND; OR; ); “ ”. Examples searches: ‘China and China policy relations countries”’ etc. relations,’ ‘Ghana “developing 2.3.2 DATA INTERPRETATION The kind of data interpretation that will be used to carry out this thesis will be content analysis. 2.3.3 CONTENT ANALYSIS Content or textual analysis is the study of textual content of a material. Holsti (1969) explains content analysis as technique for making inferences by objectively and systematically “any identifying specified characteristics of The procedure includes studying the whole messages”. text to gain an overall overview; synthesis of the key themes; and ultimately generating a descriptive text (Kvale and Brinkmann, 2009).
But, majority of the information for the literature review was sourced from scientific articles and journals. Purposeful searches were carried out conducted on some key scientific databases to obtain the needed information like: (1) http://apps.webofknowledge.com; (The Web of Knowledge) (2) Science directhttp://www.sciencedirect.com; and (3) Scopus; (4) Google Scholar http://scholar.google.dk/. The above mentioned databases together possess a wide and current collection of scientific papers. To search the documents, specific keywords were used such as: “China”, “China Trade Relations”, “Africa” “developing countries”, etc. These keywords were combined with Boolean operators such as AND; OR; ( ); “ ”. Examples of such searches: ‘China and Africa trade relations,’ ‘Ghana and China policy relations “developing countries”’ etc. 2.3.2 DATA INTERPRETATION The kind of data interpretation that will be used to carry out this thesis will be content analysis. 2.3.3 CONTENT ANALYSIS Content or textual analysis is the study of textual content of a material. Holsti (1969) explains content analysis as “any technique for making inferences by objectively and systematically identifying specified characteristics of messages”. The procedure includes studying the whole text to gain an overall overview; synthesis of the key themes; and ultimately generating a descriptive text (Kvale and Brinkmann, 2009).
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