Thematic clusters

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 work on digital investment and its role in business resilience during disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key topics

  • Firm access to finance and efficiency
  • Digital investment and resilience
  • Innovation among small-scale enterprises
  • Entrepreneurship and household livelihoods
  • Small and medium-sized enterprise financing
  • Informality and firm performance

Contributing faculty

  • Prof. Ferdinand Ahiakpor

    Professor of Economics (currently on formal secondment)

    Labour and industrial economics, economic policy modelling

  • Prof. Mark Kojo Armah

    Associate Professor of Economics; inaugural Head of Department (2018–2020)

    Development economics, econometrics and macroeconomic modelling

  • Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti

    Senior Lecturer in Economics; Departmental Registration and Examinations Officer

    Poverty, inequality and child welfare

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