Working Papers

Published Working Papers

• Firm Volatility in an Era of Global Value Chain: The Role of Product Quality. (2025). Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Working Paper GVC - II-007 (with Gideon Ndubuisi)

• Economic Transformation in Africa: The Role of North-South Trade and South-South Trade. (2024). World Bank PRWP No.10896 (with W. Kassa & G.  Ndubuisi).

• Chinese Economic Ties and Low-Carbon Industrialization in Africa. (2024). Boston University, Global Development Policy Center Working Paper WP37 (with Keyi, T & G. Ndubuisi).

• Global Value Chains, Job Creation and Job Destruction among Firms in South Africa. (2023). STEG-CEPR Working Paper WP073 (with G.  Ndubuisi).

• Drivers of Services Sector Growth Acceleration in Developing Countries. (2023). UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2023/87 (with G. Ndubuisi, R. Asiama & E. Avenyo).

• Import Penetration and Manufacturing Employment: Evidence from Africa. (2022). UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series. No. 007 (with G. O. Ndubuisi  & E.B. Mensah)

• Wage Effects of Global Value Chains Participation and Position: An Industry-Level Analysis. (2021). UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series. No. 042 (with G. O. Ndubuisi)

• Powering Structural Transformation and Productivity Gains in Africa: The Role of Global Value Chains and Resource Endowments. (2021). UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series. No. 022.

• Digital Technology and Productivity of Informal Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria. (2021). UNU-WIDER Working Paper No. 114 (with M. Danquah).

• Gender Wage Differences, Women Empowerment and Welfare: Household Evidence from Ghana. (2021). UNU-WIDER WP 40/2021 (with M. Danquah, A.M. Iddrisu & E.O. Boakye).

• Africa in Manufacturing Global Value Chains: Cross-country Patterns and Dynamics in Linkages. (2020). World Bank PRWP No.9439 (with Abreha, K, Lartey, E, Taye, M & Zeufack, A).

• Export Variety and Imported Intermediate Inputs: Industry-Level Evidence from Africa. (2020). MPRA No. 106008 (with E.B. Mensah & G. O. Ndubuisi).

• The Rise of the Service Sector in the Global Economy. (2020).  UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series. No. 056 (with A. Szirmai & Neil-Foster McGregor).

• How Important is Global Value Chain for Export Upgrading. (2020). UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series. No. 026 (with G. O. Ndubuisi). 

• Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Labor Market Turbulence in Africa. (2018). Groningen Growth and Dev. Centre  (with EB. Mensah, Foster-McGregor, N & A. Szirmai).

• Productive Efficiency, Technological Change and Catch-Up .(2020).  UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series. No. 033 (with E. B. Mensah & Neil-Foster McGregor).

• Technology in the Classroom and Learning in Secondary Schools. (2020). World Bank Policy Research WP No. 9288 (with Moussa P. Blimpo, Ousman Gajigo, R Tomita & Yanbu Xu).

• Measurement and Analysis of the Evolution of Institution in Rwanda: Leximetric Approach (2017) (with G. O. Ndubuisi).

Work in Progress

• Global Value Chains Participation, Job Creation and Job Destruction: Industry Level Evidence (with G. Ndubuisi)

• Climate Change and Structural Change (with Valentina Antonaccio)

• Trade and Environment: A Network Analysis (with G. Ndubuisi)

• Rules of Origin as Double-Edge Sword: Textile Global Value Chains under AGOA (with Woubet Kassa).

• On the Growth Complementarity between Development in Services and Manufacturing Performance in Africa.

• Digital Technology Usage, Productivity and Transition: Household Evidence from Non-Farm Enterprises in Africa (with Michael Danquah).