RESEARCH

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • On Promoting Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Africa: Evidence from Ghana and Kenya. Economics Bulletin
  • Commodity booms will not last forever: Implications and recommendations for the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Extractive Industries and Society (Accepted)
  • First come, first served: Economic reform and corporate investment in Africa. Africagrowth Agenda 15(4), pp.16-18, 2018
  • 非認知的能力が職能に及ぼす影響 ―エチオピア縫製業労働者に見るカイゼン教育の効果―. 国際開発研究 第２７ 巻第２ 号, pp. 55-67, ２０１８ (The Effect of Non-cognitive Skills on Comprehensive Capacities of Workers: KAIZEN Education and Workers of Garment Industry in Ethiopia. Journal of International Development Studies, 27(2), pp. 55-67, 2018) (With Shoko Yamada)
  • Domestic Agricultural Value Chain Development and Pro-Poor Growth: A CGE Microsimulation Application for the Democratic Republic of Congo. Review of Development Economics, doi.org/10.1111/rode.12557
  • Explaining differing perceptions of employees’ skill needs: the case of garment workers in Ethiopia. International Journal of Training and Development (With Shoko Yamada & Kyoko Taniguchi)
  • 韓国の水利用負担金制度と流域管理－CGEモデルを用いた水利用負担金の効果分析－. 名城論叢 17(1) 27-40 2016年8. (Water Use Charge System and Basin Management in Korea: Effect of Water Use Charge System using CGE model). (With Jiang Mei-hong, Fujikawa Kiyoshi, Lee Soo-Chul).
  • Mining-based growth and productive transformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: What can an African lion learn from an Asian tiger? Resources Policy 45: 227-238, 2016.
  • Agriculture Modernization, Technological Change and Pro-poor Growth: Policy Options for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Journal of Economic Structures 3(8):1-43, doi:10.1186/s40008-014-0008-x, 2014.
  • Distributional and poverty effects of agricultural trade liberalization: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo", Paper prepared for the UNCTAD Virtual Institute project on trade and poverty, UNCTAD Virtual Institute, Geneva, http://vi.unctad.org/tap/other.html, 2014
  • How could Industrial Structure Guide the Choice of Development Strategy? A Field of Influence Analysis for the Democratic Republic of Congo. International Journal of Economic Policy Studies 8:89-112, 2014.
  • An Integrated Approach to Trade Policy, Poverty and Income Distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A CGE-Microsimulation Analysis, Journal of International Development 22(1): 39-53, 2013.

Book Chapters

  • "Dépendance aux ressources naturelles et vulnérabilité économique structurelle : Le cas de la République Démocratique du Congo". In Développement économique et sécurité en République Démocratique du Congo, edited by Maswana Jean-Claude, 133-168. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018
  • "Gender-based Barriers and Opportunities to Financial Inclusion: New Evidence from Ghana." In Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation: Issues and Case Studies for Sustainable Development, edited by Essam Yassin Mohammed and Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi, 155-73. London & New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • "Education and Income Inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo." In Handbook on Africa: Challenges and Issues of the 21st Century, edited by Whitney Sherman, 263-82. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2016.

Works in Progress

  • Explaining Africa’s productivity gaps across time and space
  • The role of institutions on firm productivity and export performance in Sub-Sahara Africa
  • Multiple Jobs and Beyond: Evidence from Uganda
  • Sorting into self-employment