Abdulnomics - living economics!!
Dr. Abdul Malik Iddrisu
Current employer: The Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK.
2019: Post-doctoral researcher on the GIGA/MIASA project on large-scale land investment and conflict in Liberia.
Researcher: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Quebec, Canada.
Email (official): abdul.iddrisu@ifs.org.uk
Email (private): abdulmalikiddrisu@ymail.com
I am an Economist, specialising in the area of Development Economics and Policy. Currently, I am the Country Adviser for Ghana under the TaxDev programme at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, UK. I hold a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the University of Ghana. My research focuses on Applied Microeconometrics and General Equilibrium Modelling using CGE and Microsimulation modules. Some of the key issues addressed in my research relate to access to finance, poverty, and education analysis as well as tax and subsidy policies. I have taught a number of courses at both Graduate and undergraduate levels including Advanced Macroeconomics I and Econometrics at the SOLASS (GIMPA) Msc Financial/Energy Economics programme and Microeconomic Theory and Econometrics for undergraduate students at the Wisconsin International University College, Ghana.
What's new?
Together with colleagues from the TPU and GRA, we've published our work on customs revenue performance in Ghana.
My paper on "Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction" (with Michael Danquah, Peter Quartey, Williams Ohemeng, and Alfred Barimah) has been published in Poverty and Public Policy.
My paper on "the link between gender wage gap, women empowerment, and household welfare" (with Michael Danquah, Solomon Owusu, and Ernest Owusu Boakye) has been published in the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization.
