Food Security Erodes Trust. Policy Research working paper; No. WPS 10314. World Bank. Washington, D.C. 2023 (with M. D. Smith and D. Wesselbaum)
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. 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. Policy Research working paper; No. WPS 9761. World Bank. Washington, D.C. 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
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
Land Titling, Local Governance and Investment: An Empirical Investigation in Tanzania. Journal of Sustainable Development 11.1 (2018): 56.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Rules of origin as double-edged sword: Textile GVC Under AGOA (with Solomon Owusu) (Under Review: WD).
Is there an Optimal Foreign Value Added (%) in Export Content? It varies by sectors.
Abrupt AGOA Suspensions: Short/Long Term Impacts of Trade Uncertainty (with Habtamu Edjigu and Shushanik Hakobyan)
Hotter Planet, Hotter Factories (with Andinet Woldemichael)
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 (Contributed to A Chapter)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Africa Knowledge Fest 2022, World Bank, Washington DC June 2022
Infra4Dev Conference: Infrastructure, Recovery & Growth: Building Out From the Pandemic. WBG, IGC. March 2022
University of Oxford CSAE Conference on Economic Development in Africa, 2019
Eastern Economic Association 45th Annual Meetings. 2019
The Econometric Society Conference 2018 – Africa Meeting 2018
University of Oxford CSAE Conference on Economic Development in Africa, 2018
Eastern Economic Association 44th Annual Meetings. 2018
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Conference, 2016
41st Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference. 2016
REFEREE SERVICE
Journal of African Economies, PLOS ONE, World Bank Economic Review, Research in Globalization, Food Policy
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