Research

Macroeconomic Policy, Monetary Economics and Financial Stability

How monetary, fiscal and financial-sector policies influence economic stability, growth and welfare — inflation dynamics and forecasting, monetary-policy regimes, exchange-rate vol...

Contributing faculty: Prof. William Godfred Cantah, Prof. William Gabriel Brafu-Insaidoo, Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah, Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah

International Trade, Investment and Economic Integration

How trade policy, foreign investment and international capital movements affect African economies — trade liberalisation, tariff revenue, export performance, foreign direct investm...

Contributing faculty: Prof. William Gabriel Brafu-Insaidoo, Prof. William Godfred Cantah, Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah, Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor

Financial Development, Inclusion and Household Finance

Access to financial services and the role of finance in household and firm welfare — financial inclusion, literacy, credit access, mobile money, microfinance, savings and borrower...

Contributing faculty: Dr. Joshua Sebu, Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor, Prof. William Gabriel Brafu-Insaidoo, Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah, Prof. William Godfred Cantah, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah

Poverty, Inequality and Inclusive Development

The measurement and analysis of poverty, deprivation and inequality, going beyond income-based measures to spatial inequality, multidimensional poverty, child deprivation, energy p...

Contributing faculty: Dr. Joshua Sebu, Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah, Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah, Prof. William Godfred Cantah

Health Economics, Population Health and Social Protection

Economic and quantitative methods applied to healthcare utilisation, insurance coverage, maternal and child health, nutrition and household welfare. A substantial body of work eval...

Contributing faculty: Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah, Dr. Joshua Sebu

Agriculture, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods

The economic wellbeing of rural households, smallholder farmers and agricultural communities — livelihood diversification, agricultural credit, financial inclusion, mobile money, f...

Contributing faculty: Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah, Dr. Joshua Sebu, Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor, Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti

Education, Human Capital and Child Development

Educational participation, learning outcomes and inequalities in access to educational resources — enrolment, parental expectations, teacher absenteeism, school distance and infras...

Contributing faculty: Dr. Joshua Sebu, Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah

Gender, Women's Empowerment and Household Welfare

Gender as a cross-cutting dimension of the Department's development research: how women's decision-making power, education, access to resources and economic participation affect fo...

Contributing faculty: Dr. Joshua Sebu, Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah, Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah

Energy, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development

The economic and social effects of energy consumption, petroleum production, commodity prices and natural-resource extraction — and the connection between energy and broader develo...

Contributing faculty: Prof. William Godfred Cantah, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah, Dr. Joshua Sebu, Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah

Public Finance, Taxation and the Informal Economy

Evidence for the design of effective, equitable and sustainable public-finance systems — tax buoyancy and elasticity, tax capacity and effort, tariff revenue, trade misinvoicing, t...

Contributing faculty: Prof. William Gabriel Brafu-Insaidoo, Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah, Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor, Prof. William Godfred Cantah

Firms, Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation

The determinants of firm productivity, resilience and innovation — access to finance, technical efficiency, small-enterprise innovation and financial constraints — with emerging wo...

Contributing faculty: Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor, Prof. Mark Kojo Armah

Quantitative Methods, Econometrics and Data-Driven Policy Analysis

The methodological spine running through every other cluster: time-series, panel-data, household-survey and cross-country methods used to estimate relationships, forecast outcomes...