Research, Publications

Trade Barriers or Catalysts ? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins. World Bank Policy Research working paper; No. WPS11024. World Bank. 2025 (with F. Dela Dem Doe A & A. Lartey)

Economic Transformation in Africa : The Role of North-South and South-South Trade. World Bank Policy Research working paper; No. WPS10896. World Bank. 2024 (with G. O. Ndubisi & S. Owusu)

Hotter Planet, Hotter Factories: Uneven Impacts of Climate Change on Productivity. World Bank Policy Research working paper; No. WPS10762. World Bank. 2024 (with Andinet Woldemichael)

Food insecurity erodes trust. Global Food Security. Vol. 40. 100742 (2024)

Does financial inclusion empower women in Africa? Economic Notes 52 No. 3 e12226 (2023)

Uncertainty in preferential trade agreements: Impact of AGOA suspension on exports. World Bank Policy Research working paper; No. WPS 10424. World Bank. 2023 (with Habtamu Edjigu and Shushanik Hakobyan)

Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa : Seizing Opportunities in Global Value Chains – Policy Note. World Bank. Washington, D.C. 2023 (with Solomon Owusu)

Africa in the New Trade Environment: Market Access in Troubled Times. Washington, DC: World Bank. 2022 (with Souleymane Coulibaly and Albert G. Zeufack)

Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Seizing Opportunities in Global Value Chains. Africa Development Forum. Washington, DC: World Bank. 2021. doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1673-4. (with K. G. Abreha, E.K.K. Lartey, T. Mengistae, A. G. Zeufack)

Mobile Access Expansion and Price Information Diffusion. World Bank Policy Research working paper; No. WPS 9752. World Bank. Washington, D.C. 2021 (with K. Abreha, Jieun C., H. J. Kim, M. Kugler)

Trade Creation and Trade Diversion in African RECs: Drawing Lessons for AfCFTA. World Bank Policy Research working paper; No. WPS 9761. World Bank. 2021 (with P. N. Sawadogo)

COVID-19 and Trade in Africa: Impacts and Policy Response Africa Knowledge in Time Policy Brief; No. 1. World Bank Group. 2020 (Policy Note)

Financial development, exchange rate regimes, and growth dynamics. (with Emmanuel K. K. Lartey) Policy Research working paper; No. WPS 8562. Washington, D.C. World Bank Group. 2019

Revisiting the Trade Impact of AGOA: A Synthetic Control Approach (with Souleymane Coulibaly), University of Oxford, CSAE 2018 Annual Conference, Oxford, UK. 2019

Land Titling, Local Governance and Investment: An Empirical Investigation in Tanzania. Journal of Sustainable Development 11.1 (2018): 56.

Assessing food Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean using FAO’s Food Insecurity Experience Scale (with Paul Winters & M. Smith). Food Policy Volume 71, 2017, Pages 48-61

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

Africa’s Pulse, No. 25, April 2022 : Boosting Resilience: The Future of Social Protection in Africa. © World Bank 2022

Africa’s Pulse, No. 22, October 2020 : An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future. © World Bank. 2020

Africa’s Pulse, No. 21. April 2020: An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future. © World Bank. 2020

The Future of Work in Africa : Harnessing the Potential of Digital Technologies for All. © World Bank. 2019

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

World Trade Forum 2025. Coping with chaos: sustaining the rules-based trade order. European Union University (EUI), 2025

28th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis
“Accelerating Economic Transformation, Resilience, Diversification, and Job Creation” 2025

The Econometrics Conference, Africa Region Meeting 2024.

Center for the Study of African Economies Economic Development in Africa Conference. 2024. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.