Dr. Ama A. Ahene-Codjoe

Dr. Ama A. Ahene-Codjoe

Contact info aaahene-codjoe@ug.edu.gh

About

Profile

Dr. Ama Ahene-Codjoe 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.

 

Education

B.A., MPhil. (Econs., UG); PhD (Econs) (Nottingham, UK)

 

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Dzanku, F. M., Hall, A. J., Ahene-Codjoe, A. A., Tetteh, A. A., & Alu, A. A. (2024). Potential Illicit Financial Flow Risks in Ghana’s Gold-for-Oil Transaction. International Development Policy| Revue internationale de politique de développement, (17).
  2. Ahene-Codjoe, A. A., Alu, A. A., & Mehrotra, R. (2022). Abnormal pricing in international commodity trading: Evidence from Ghana. International Economics, 172, 331-348. 
  3. Okyere, C. Y.,  & Ahene-Codjoe, A. A. (2022). Irrigated Agriculture and Welfare: Panel Data Evidence from Southern Ghana. The European Journal of Development Research, 34(2), 583 - 610. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00384-2  
  4. Okyere, C. Y., Ankrah, D. A., & Ahene-Codjoe, A. A. (2022). Intra-household Health Effects of Irrigation in Southern Ghana. Irrigation and Drainage, 71(1), 268–285. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2630

Book Chapter

  1. Aryeetey, E., & Ahene, A. A. (2005). Changing regulatory environment for small-medium size enterprises and their performance in Ghana. Regulating Development: Evidence from Africa and Latin America, 2006, pp. 237–271