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 discouragement. The research weighs the opportunities against the risks, asking both whether inclusion improves welfare and whether too much finance can constrain investment.
Key topics
- Financial inclusion and multidimensional poverty
- Credit access among households, farmers and small businesses
- Mobile money and rural welfare
- Microfinance, multiple borrowing and borrower vulnerability
- Financial literacy and financial distress
- Financial innovation and savings
- Finance, firm efficiency and private investment
- Financial inclusion and monetary-policy transmission
Contributing faculty
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Prof. William Godfred Cantah
Associate Professor of Economics; Head of Department
Macroeconomics, monetary policy and applied policy modelling
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Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah
Associate Professor of Economics; Vice Dean, School of Economics
Development and health economics, CGE-based policy modelling
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Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor
Professor of Economics (currently on formal secondment)
Labour and industrial economics, economic policy modelling
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Prof. Mark Kojo Armah
Associate Professor of Economics; inaugural Head of Department (2018–2020)
Development economics, econometrics and macroeconomic modelling
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Prof. William Gabriel Brafu-Insaidoo
Associate Professor of Economics; former Head of Department
Fiscal and monetary policy, international finance
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Dr. Joshua Sebu
Senior Lecturer in Economics and Data Science
Survey data, financial inclusion and energy poverty
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Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti
Senior Lecturer in Economics; Departmental Registration and Examinations Officer
Poverty, inequality and child welfare
