Ama A. Ahene-Codjoe

Profile

Ama is a lecturer at the Department. She teaches Managerial and Business Economics, Agricultural Trade I & II, Quantitative Methods and Operations Research, and Agri-Food Business and Agro-Processing. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K.; and presently having fun learning French as part of her extra-curricular activities. 

She previously worked as a socioeconomic researcher with the Economics Division at ISSER, Univ. of Ghana, Legon and the Advisory service line at Ernst & Young, Ghana. She thus has a fair bit of industry experience, which enables the delivery of meaningful academic work. Her areas of expertise include economic and statistical research, programme management, monitoring and evaluation; and knowledge of statistical tools such as STATA. She also has the skills to carry out high-level diagnostic reviews of programmes and development issues. A passion for research, teaching and a previous voluntary placement as an education and career advisor in her community have sharpened her interpersonal skills and diplomacy.

Ama’s main research interests include the analysis of the economics of education and its related impact on core socioeconomic activities such as health and agriculture; rural labour allocation and development; climate change and sustainable resource development; and international trade. She is currently working on a project titled “Curbing Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) from Resource-rich Developing Countries”. This project seeks to improve the understanding of commodity trade-related IFFs using transaction level trade data. The selected commodities for Ghana are COCOA and GOLD. The project is a collaborative research between the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the Centre for Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.

Publications:
Ahene-Codjoe, A. A. and Alu A. (2019) “Commodity Trade-related Illicit Financial Flows: Evidence of Abnormal Pricing in Commodity Exports from Ghana” R4D-IFF Working Paper Series, R4D-IFF-WP03-2019.

Ahene-Codjoe, A. A. (2012) “The Effects of Education on Health and Fertility in Ghana” PhD Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Aryeetey, E. and Ahene, A. A. (2006) “The Changing Regulatory Environment and its Implications for the Performance of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ghana” in Edmund Amann (ed.) Regulating Development: Evidence from Africa and Latin America, pp. 237-271, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.

Aryeetey, E. and Ahene, A. A. (2006) “Ghana” in Pradeep S. Mehta (ed.) Competition Regimes in the World – A Civil Society Report, pp. 239 – 243, Jaipur, India: CUTS-International and INCSOC.

Aryeetey, E. and Ahene, A. A. (2005) “Utilities Regulation in Ghana”, Working Paper No. 111, Centre on Regulation and Competition, IDPM, University of Manchester, U.K.