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Working Papers

2024

1. Catastrophic Effects of COVID-19 Health Expenditure Shocks and Multidimensional Poverty in Ghana: What Financing Mechanisms Mattered?
   Working Papers, African Economic Research Consortium
2. Dancing on the grid: electricity crises, manufacturing energy vulnerability, and jobs in South Africa
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
3. Jobs, investments, and exporting: the real effects of electricity crises in South Africa
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2023

4. Drivers of services sector growth acceleration in developing countries
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (1)

2022

5. Digital Technology Adoption and Performance in South African Manufacturing Firms: Early Evidence for Policy
   Working Papers, African Economic Research Consortium
6. Global Value Chain Participation and Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from Africa
   Working Papers, African Economic Research Consortium
7. Participation a la Chaa®ne de Valeur Mondiale et Innovation: Preuves au Niveau des Entreprises de l'Afrique
   Working Papers, African Economic Research Consortium View citations (1)

2021

8. Learning and Product Innovation Performance in Informal Enterprises: Evidence from Urban Ghana
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2020

9. COVID-19, Lockdowns, and Africa’s Informal Sector: Lessons from Ghana
   MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) View citations (1)
10. Exporters and global value chain participation: Firm-level evidence from South Africa
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (1)
11. Labour market effects of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: An informality lens from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal
    MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) View citations (19)

2019

12. The employment impact of product innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence
    MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) View citations (19)
    See also Journal Article The employment impact of product innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence, Research Policy, Elsevier (2019) View citations (17) (2019)

2018

13. Estimating the effects of robotization on exports
    MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) View citations (2)
14. Informal sector innovation in Ghana: Data set and descriptive analysis
    MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) View citations (4)

2016

15. Employment impacts of technological innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence
    Conference papers, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project

2014

16. Millennium Development Goals: Tool or token of global social governance?
    MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Dancing on the grid: Electricity crises, energy vulnerability, and manufacturing jobs in South Africa
   Energy Policy, 2025, 202, (C)
2. Global value chains and the innovativeness of firms in Africa
   Technovation, 2025, 146, (C)
3. Revisiting the sustainable industrialization paradigm in Africa: Exploring the influence of digitalization
   Sustainable Development, 2025, 33, (2), 2634-2658
4. ‘Learning to Export’ and ‘Learning By Exporting’: Revisiting the Relationship Between Innovation and Exports in African Firms
   African Development Review, 2025, 37, (1)

2024

5. Determinants of digital technologies' adoption in South African manufacturing: Evidence from a firm‐level survey
   South African Journal of Economics, 2024, 92, (2), 235-259 View citations (1)
6. Escaping Corruption in the Demand for Public Services in Africa — The Dual Nature of Civic Networks
   World Development, 2024, 177, (C)
7. Learning-by-exporting in South Africa: The influence of global value chain (GVC) participation and technological capability
   African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2024, 16, (4), 459-476 View citations (1)

2022

8. Greening manufacturing: Technology intensity and carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries
   Applied Energy, 2022, 324, (C) View citations (26)

2021

9. Digital platforms and development: a survey of the literature
   Innovation and Development, 2021, 11, (2-3), 303-321 View citations (10)
10. Do Productive Capabilities Affect Export Performance? Evidence from African Firms
    The European Journal of Development Research, 2021, 33, (2), 304-329 View citations (1)
11. Effets de la COVID-19 sur le marché du travail en Afrique subsaharienne: analyse sous le prisme de l’informalité au Burkina Faso, Mali et Sénégal
    Revue d’économie du développement, 2021, 29, (1), 43-84
12. On gender and spatial gaps in Africa’s informal sector: Evidence from urban Ghana
    Economics Letters, 2021, 199, (C) View citations (1)
13. Product innovation and informal market competition in sub-Saharan Africa
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2021, 31, (2), 605-637 View citations (17)
14. The effects of technology intensity in manufacturing on CO2 emissions: Evidence from developing countries
    ERSA Working Paper Series, 2021

2020

15. 'Learning to export’ and ‘learning to innovate’: Revisiting the relationship between innovation and exports in African firms
    ERSA Working Paper Series, 2020

2019

16. The employment impact of product innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence
    Research Policy, 2019, 48, (9), - View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper The employment impact of product innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence, MERIT Working Papers (2019) View citations (19) (2019)