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Faculty profile

Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti

Senior Lecturer in Economics; Departmental Registration and Examinations Officer

Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti is a Senior Lecturer whose research focuses on poverty, inequality, child welfare, health economics and development economics in sub-Saharan Africa. He has published in leading international journals including Energy Economics, Economic Modelling, the Journal of Economic Inequality, and journals published by Oxford University Press. His methodological strengths include applied microeconometrics, spatial analysis and advanced statistical modelling using Stata and R.

He engages in international research collaborations through the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), UNICEF and the African Research University Alliance (ARUA). He has secured competitive fellowships and research funding, and has supervised more than five MPhil and PhD theses. He serves as the Department's Registration and Examinations Officer.

Selected courses taught

  • Principles of Microeconomics
  • Principles of Macroeconomics
  • Intermediate Statistics I and II
  • Data Curation and Management
  • Economic Policy Models and Modelling

Selected recent publications

Ten most recent, drawn from Google Scholar.

  1. Inequalities in safe water, improved sanitation and hand hygiene among poverty-vulnerable households: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

    Journal of International Development · 2026

  2. Well-being implications of informal caregiving: Evidence on loneliness and social isolation

    2026

  3. Non-farm entrepreneurship and household economic precarity in rural Ghana

    Review of Development Economics · 2026

  4. Consumption inequality and multidimensional child poverty in Ghana: Does access to communal services matter?

    Child Indicators Research · 2025

  5. The nexus between consumption inequality and multidimensional poverty in Ghana

    Social Indicators Research · 2025

  6. Working but hungry: Precarious employment and household food insecurity in Ghana

    International Review of Economics · 2024

  7. Can health financing programmes reduce food insecurity in a developing country?

    International Journal of Health Economics and Management · 2024

  8. Financial inclusion and energy poverty in rural Tanzania

    Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Rural Development · 2024

  9. Reducing stunting and underweight through mother's birth spacing: Evidence from Ghana

    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · 2024

  10. Borrower discouragement and multidimensional child deprivation in Ghana

    The Journal of Economic Inequality · 2024

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