DSEP
Thematic clusters

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, tax evasion and domestic revenue mobilisation, alongside Ghana's underground economy.

Key topics

  • Tax capacity, effort, buoyancy and elasticity
  • Tax evasion and the underground economy
  • Trade taxes and tariff reform
  • Trade misinvoicing and revenue losses
  • Domestic revenue mobilisation
  • Tax incentives and foreign investment
  • Informality and fiscal stabilisation
  • Public debt and distributional outcomes

Contributing faculty

  • Prof. William Godfred Cantah

    Associate Professor of Economics; Head of Department

    Macroeconomics, monetary policy and applied policy modelling

  • Prof. Emmanuel Ekow Asmah

    Associate Professor of Economics; Vice Dean, School of Economics

    Development and health economics, CGE-based policy modelling

  • 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

  • Prof. William Gabriel Brafu-Insaidoo

    Associate Professor of Economics; former Head of Department

    Fiscal and monetary policy, international finance

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