Where economic policy meets data science.
DSEP trains analytical thinkers and problem-solvers who can harness data to design evidence-based policies for national and global development challenges.
- Established
- 2018 Established
- Academic programmes
- 9 Academic programmes
- Research clusters
- 12 Research clusters
- Specialist centres
- 2 Specialist centres
Our approach
Three disciplines that are too often kept apart.
The Department brings together modern data science and machine learning, advanced econometrics and policy modelling, and practical, hands-on engagement with real institutions and real datasets. This integration is not merely rhetorical — it is built into how we design curricula, structure research, and organise our partnerships with government, industry and development partners.
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Data science and machine learning applied to problems that policy actually has to solve.
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Advanced econometrics and the policy modelling that turns estimates into decisions.
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Real institutions, real data through sustained work with national agencies and development partners.
“We do not train economists who happen to know a little about data, nor data scientists who happen to know a little about economics.”
Study with us
Graduate programmes built for evidence-based policy.
Our graduates work in government agencies, development finance institutions, research organisations and the private sector.
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MPhil In the University's catalogue
MPhil Data Science and Economic Policy
Ghana and the wider African continent face the critical task of monitoring and achieving multiple high-level development frameworks, including the Sustainable...
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MPhil In the University's catalogue
MPhil Economic Policy Modelling
The MPhil Economic Policy Modelling is a two-year graduate programme of the School of Economics, run by the Department of Data Science and Economic Policy. It...
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MPhil In the University's catalogue
MPhil Public Policy Modelling
Research
Twelve clusters, one question: what does the evidence say?
Faculty research addresses major development challenges in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa, using econometric modelling, household and firm-level data, macroeconomic analysis, forecasting and policy evaluation.
- Macroeconomic Policy, Monetary Economics and Financial Stability
- International Trade, Investment and Economic Integration
- Financial Development, Inclusion and Household Finance
- Poverty, Inequality and Inclusive Development
- Health Economics, Population Health and Social Protection
- Agriculture, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods
Our centres
A research and outreach capability that sets DSEP apart.
Two specialist units give the Department a distinctive place in the West African academic landscape.
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C-DAMAA
Centre for Data Archiving, Management, Analysis and Advocacy
Ghana's first dedicated data-sharing and archiving centre, preserving research data for the long term and training researchers to use it.
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EPMU
Economic Policy Modelling Unit
The Department's modelling capability — CGE, macro-econometric and microsimulation work built for ministries, regulators and development partners.
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