Research projects:

-Innovative models for financing aquaculture in Africa (ongoing)

-Segmentation analysis for better policy targeting (ongoing)

-Understanding cooking energy stacking behaviour in Kigali: Evidence from the 2022 population census (in progress)

-Private investment and public–private partnerships in aquaculture in Rwanda: Status, challenges and prospects 

-Public–private partnership innovations for aquaculture development with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa  

-Kitchen gardens and food security in Rwanda 

-RCT, clean energy adoption and women empowerment 

-Covid-19 and low-cost private education in Nairobi

-Improved seeds and farm yields: What are the mediating factors?

-Coffee trees rejuvenation in Rwanda

-Impact of 'Girls’ safe room’ on girls absenteeism and educational performance

-Working but poor: The livelihoods of wage-farmers 

-Foreign language skills and labour market earnings

-Gender inequalities at the bottom: The case of domestic workers

-Statistical inference in the presence of measurement errors


Edited Book (with Jacob Wood):

By focusing on four areas: (1) agriculture and livestock, (2) consumption, poverty and inequality, (3) financial services, employment and corporate governance, and (4) economic integration, international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), this book presents a series of empirical studies that examine important contemporary economic issues facing Africa. The book incorporates a range of methodological approaches, with some chapters providing case study analyses while others embrace more traditional forms of econometric testing.

Technical  reports

Murekezi, P. & Habimana, O. (2025). Private investment and public–private partnerships in aquaculture in Rwanda – Status, challenges and prospects. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Papers, No. 741. Rome. FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6543en 

Murekezi, P., Habimana, O. & Menezes, A. (2024). Public–private partnership innovations for aquaculture development with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper, No. 713. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc9252en 

Habimana,O., Kiroro, f., Muchira, j., Ali, A.,Asego, C., Perakis, R. and Ngware, M.(2022). Exploring the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low-Cost Private Schools in Nairobi, Kenya. Center for Global Development. Washington DC.

Del Prete, D., Habimana, O., Tuyishime, C. and Magrini, E. (2021). Territorial analysis of agricultural typologies in conjunction with malnourishment in Rwanda: leveraging the role of agriculture to improve nutrition. Policy report. MAFAP (Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies). FAO. Rome.

Habimana, O., Tabaro, D. and Kalisa, T. (2020). Nowcasting Rwanda’s quarterly GDP using mixed-frequency methods. Working Paper, Macro Policy Division, Department of Chief Economist, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, March 2020.

Articles

Muhawenayo, J., Habimana, O. and Heshmati, A. (2022).  Language skills and labour market earnings in Rwanda. Journal of Education and Work, 35(6-7), 719-734. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2128186 

Habimana, O., Månsson, K., & Sjölander, P. (2021). A wavelet-based approach for Johansen’s likelihood ratio test for cointegration in the presence of measurement errors: An application to CO2 emissions and real GDP data. Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, 7(2), 128-145. Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, Taylor & Francis 

Khalid, U., & Habimana, O. (2021). Military spending and economic growth in Turkey: A wavelet approach. Defence and Peace Economics, 32(3), 362-376. Web of Science Core Collection: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

Habimana, O., Dugbeh, J. and Muhawenayo, J. (2020). Are African current accounts on a sustainable path? A tale of two components. Economics Bulletin, 40(3). Web of Science Core Collection:Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

Habimana, O. (2019). Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis of the Liquidity Effect and Monetary Neutrality. Computational Economics, 53(1)85-110, Springer. Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) | Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

Habimana O, Månsson K, Sjölander P. (2018). Testing for nonlinear unit roots in the presence of a structural break with an application to the qualified PPP during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 23 (3), 221-232, Wiley&Sons. Web of Science Core Collection: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

Umulisa, Y. and Habimana, O. (2018). Business Cycle Synchronization and Core-Periphery Patterns in the East African Community: A Wavelet Approach. Journal of Economic Integration, 33 (4): 629-658. Web of Science Core Collection:Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

Nsabimana, A. and Habimana, O. (2017). Asymmetric effects of rainfall on food crop prices: evidence from Rwanda. Environmental Economics, 8(3), 137-149. 

Habimana, O. (2017). Modelling Nonlinearity in Public Debt-Economic Growth Relationship: A Piecewise Panel Regression. The Empirical Economics Letters, 16(1), 35-39. EconLit.

Habimana, O. (2016). Asymmetric nonlinear mean reversion in real effective exchange rates: A Fisher-type panel unit root test applied to Sub-Saharan Africa. The Journal of Economic Asymmetries 14, 189–198, Elsevier. EconLit.

Habimana, O. (2016). Do flexible exchange rates facilitate external adjustment? A dynamic approach with time-varying and asymmetric volatility. International Economics and Economic Policy 14 (4), 625-642, Springer.  Web of Science Core Collection:Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)


PhD thesis

Habimana O, (2018). Asymmetry and multiscale dynamics in macroeconomic time series analysis. JIBS Dissertation Series No. 122. 

Blog posts and policy briefs

How is the Pandemic Affecting Low-Cost Private Schools? Evidence from Nairobi

Book chapter

Wood J., Habimana O. (2020) An Overview: A Multidimensional Economic Assessment of Africa. In: Wood J., Habimana O. (eds) A Multidimensional Economic Assessment of Africa, pp 1-17. Frontiers in African Business Research. Springer, Singapore 

Habimana, O., Månsson, K. and Sjölander, P. (2015). Testing for nonlinear unit roots in the presence of a structural break, in Thomas Holgerson (ed.), Festschrift in honor of Professor Ghazi Shukur on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Växjö: Linnaeus University Press. 

Working papers


Habimana, O. and Muhawenayo, J. (2023). Can Kitchen Gardens Improve Household Food Security? Causal Evidence in a Large Sample from Rwanda. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4330480 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4330480

Habimana, Olivier, Sesay, Vamuyan and Umulisa, Yvonne (2020). Business Cycle Synchronicity Within ECOWAS: The Eco-Core and the Eco- Periphery .  Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3708812 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3708812

Habimana, O. (2017). Gender Differences in Time Use: Evidence from Rwanda, Working Paper No 8, Turin School of Development, ITC-ILO.

Habimana, O. (2017). The multiscale relationship between exchange rates and fundamentals differentials: Empirical evidence from Scandinavia. MPRA Working Paper 75956. 

Habimana, O. (2016). Oil price, exchange rate and consumer price co-movement: A continuous-wavelet analysis. MPRA Paper No.71886, University Library of Munich, Germany.

Mukantabana, A. and Habimana, O. (2015).  Technology Shock and the Business Cycle in the G7 Countries: A Structural Vector Error Correction Model. MPRA Paper No. 69651, University Library of Munich, Germany.