DSEP
Thematic clusters

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 food security, child health, renewable-energy use and household wellbeing.

Key topics

  • Women's empowerment and household food security
  • Women's empowerment and child health
  • Maternal education and child nutrition
  • Gender disparities in energy access
  • Women's health and reproductive care
  • Gender, household decision-making and wellbeing
  • Parental attitudes, violence and childhood development

Contributing faculty

  • Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah

    Associate Professor of Economics; Vice Dean, School of Economics

    Development and health economics, CGE-based policy modelling

  • Prof. Mark Kojo Armah

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

    Development economics, econometrics and macroeconomic modelling

  • Dr. Joshua Sebu

    Senior Lecturer in Economics and Data Science

    Survey data, financial inclusion and energy poverty

  • Dr. Raymond Elikplim Kofinti

    Senior Lecturer in Economics; Departmental Registration and Examinations Officer

    Poverty, inequality and child welfare

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