Abdulnomics - living economics!!
Dr. Abdul Malik Iddrisu
Current employer: The Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK
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 Economist & Programme Manager for Ghana under the TaxDev programme at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, UK. I hold a Ph.D. in Development Economics through a collaborative PhD programme between the University of Ghana and United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNUWIDER). 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 financial inclusion, 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?
My paper entitled "On the relationship between corruption perception and tax morale: does natural resource abundance matter?" has been published in Comparative Economic Studies (Springer Nature).
This paper was presented at the 40th edition of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) conference at Oxford, UK.
Together with colleagues from the RPD at the Ministry of Finance, Ghana and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, we've published our work on "A review of Ghana's value-added tax (VAT) system".
My paper entitled "The financial inclusion agenda: Examining the role of conventional banks in deepening access to formal credit" (with Michael Danquah) has been published in Economic Systems (Elsevier).
My paper entitled "Urbanization without structural transformation in Accra, Ghana" (with Michael Danquah, Williams Ohemeng, and George Domfe) has been published in the UNU-WIDER Working Paper Series.
