Research

New Policy Report: Regionalizing Green Transition Minerals for Structural Transformation in Africa. (2025). World Bank (with G. Ndubuisi, E. Avenyo & K. Woubet)

New Blog: Industrialization in Africa: Compete, Connect, Create Value. (2025). World Bank. Washington D.C (with Woubet Kassa)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

• Taking Stock of Africa's Economic Transformation: Rethinking Sources of Productivity Growth. The World Bank  Research Observer, forthcoming. (with  Margaret McMillan, Douglas Gollin, Emmanuel Mensah & Gideon Ndubuisi)

• Structural Change in Africa: The Role of North–South and South–South Trade. (2026). The World Economy. (with Gideon Ndubuisi & Woubet Kassa)

• Chinese Ties and Low Carbon Industrialization in Africa. (2025). Energy Economics. (with Keyi Tang & Gideon Ndubuisi). 

• Global Value Chains and Aggregate Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: The Role of Intra-Sectoral Allocation and Structural Change. (2024). Review of World Economics 

• Productive Efficiency, Structural Change and Catch-Up Within Africa. (2023). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. (with E. B. Mensah & Neil Foster-McGregor)

• Trade for Catch-Up: Examining How Global Value Chains Participation Affects Productive Efficiency. (2023). Journal of Productivity Analysis. (with G. Ndubuisi)

• Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Labour Market Turbulence in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2022). Journal of African Economies. (with E. B. Mensah; Neil Foster-McGregor & A. Szirmai)

• ICTs Quality and Technical Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis. (2022). Telecommunications Policy. (with G. Ndubuisi, C. Otioma & G. Tetteh)

• Wage Effects of Global Value Chains Participation and Position: An Industry-Level Analysis. (2022). Journal of International Trade & Economic Development. (with G. O. Ndubuisi)

• How Important is Global Value Chains to Export Upgrading. (2021). The World Economy. (with G. O. Ndubuisi)

• Do Gender Wage Differences Within Households Influence Women Empowerment and Welfare: Evidence from Ghana. (2021). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. (with M. Danquah, A. M. Iddrisu & E. O. Boakye)

• Trust, Efficient Contracting and Export Upgrading. (2021). European Journal of Development Research. (with G.O. Ndubuisi)

Books

• Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Seizing Opportunities in Global Value Chains.  (2021). World Bank, African Development Forum, Washington D.C. (with Kaleb Abreha, G., Emmanuel K. K. Lartey., Taye A. Mengistae., Woubet Kassa & Albert G. Zeufack).

• Supporting an Innovative Agenda for the Western Balkans: Tools and Methodologies. (2018). Publications Office of the European Commission.

Book/Policy Chapters

• Regionalizing Green Transition Minerals for Structural Transformation in Africa. (2025). World Bank (with Gideon Ndubuisi, Elvis, K. Avenyo & Woubet Kassa)

• African Economic Outlook: Driving Africa's Transformation. (2024). African Development Bank Group. (Chapter 2 with Margaret McMillan, E. Mensah, G. Ndubuisi & A. Mansoor).

• Sub-Saharan Africa's Prospect of Economic Development through Global Supply Chains. (2022). Sustainable Global Supply Chains Report. German Development Institute, Bonn (with G.O. Ndubuisi, pp.126-145).

• The Rise of the Service Sector in the Global Economy and Africa. (2021). (Chapter 13 with Neil Foster-McGregor & A. Szirmai) in Alcorta, L., Foster-McGregor, N., Verspagen, B & Szirmai, A. "New Perspectives on Structural Change: Causes and Consequences of Structural Change in the Global Economy" Oxford University Press.

• The Future of Work in Africa: Harnessing the Potential of Digital Technologies for All. (2020). World Bank, Africa Development Forum, Washington D.C. (Chapter 3 with Moussa P. Blimpo).

Other Policy Work

• Boosting Resilience: The Future of Social Protection. Africa’s Pulse, No. 25. (2022, April). World Bank, Washington, DC. (with Albert, Zeufack. G; Calderon, Cesar; Kabundi, Alain; Kubota, Megumi; Korman, Vijdan; Raju, Dhushyanth; Girma Abreha, Kaleb; Kassa, Woubet).

• UNIDO Industrial Development Report: The Future of Industrialization in a Post-Pandemic World. (2022). United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna.