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Abena Oduro

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Associate Professor of Economics, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
gender and assetsemployment securityregional integrationpoverty and inequality
Publications

174

Citations

5,130

H-index

32

i10-index

61

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
29.5
Most cited paper
554
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 09:46
Publications

174 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Credit constraints in manufacturing enterprises in Africa
A Bigsten, P Collier, S Dercon, M Fafchamps, B Gauthier, JW Gunning, ...
2003 Journal of African Economies 12 (1), 104-125, 2003 Social Sciences 554
Do African manufacturing firms learn from exporting?
A Bigsten, P Collier, S Dercon, M Fafchamps, B Gauthier, ...
2004 Journal of development studies 40 (3), 115-141, 2004 Social Sciences 469
Access to basic education in Ghana: The evidence and the issues
K Akyeampong, J Djangmah, A Oduro, A Seidu, F Hunt
2007 University of Sussex, 2007 Social Sciences 326
Economic reforms in Ghana: The miracle and the mirage
E Aryeetey, J Harrigan, M Nissanke
2000 Africa World Press, 2000 Social Sciences 325
Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India
CD Deere, AD Oduro, H Swaminathan, C Doss
2013 The Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2), 249-265, 2013 Social Sciences 294
Rates of return on physical and human capital in Africa's manufacturing sector
A Bigsten, A Isaksson, M Söderbom, P Collier, A Zeufack, S Dercon, ...
2000 Economic Development and Cultural Change 48 (4), 801-827, 2000 Social Sciences 267
Contract flexibility and dispute resolution in African manufacturing
A Bigsten, P Collier, S Dercon, M Fafchamps, B Gauthier, JW Gunning, ...
2000 The Journal of Development Studies 36 (4), 1-37, 2000 Social Sciences 248
Investment in Africa's manufacturing sector: A four country panel data analysis
A Bigsten, P Collier, S Dercon, B Gauthier, JW Gunning, A Isaksson, ...
1999 Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 61 (4), 489-512, 1999 Social Sciences 171
Women's wealth and intimate partner violence: Insights from Ecuador and Ghana
AD Oduro, CD Deere, ZB Catanzarite
2015 Feminist Economics 21 (2), 1-29, 2015 Social Sciences 142
Formal and informal social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
AD Oduro
2010 ERD, August, 2010 Social Sciences 137
Exports and firm-level efficiency in African manufacturing
A Bigsten
2000 The Centre for the…, 2000 Social Sciences 129
Ethnic fractionalization in an African labour market
A Barr, A Oduro
2002 Journal of Development Economics 68 (2), 355-379, 2002 Social Sciences 110
The gender asset and wealth gaps
CR Doss, CD Deere, AD Oduro, H Swaminathan
2014 Development 57 (3), 400-409, 2014 Social Sciences 106
Exports of African manufactures: macro policy and firm behaviour
A Bigsten, P Collier, S Dercon, M Fafcharnps, B Gauthier, ...
1999 Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 8 (1), 53-71, 1999 Social Sciences 106
Measuring the gender asset gap in Ghana
AD Oduro, W Baah-Boateng, L Boakye-Yiadom
2011 Woeli publishing services, publ. For the Department of Economics, University …, 2011 Social Sciences 93
Export diversification and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
LS Hodey, AD Oduro, B Senadza
2015 Journal of African Development 17 (2), 67-81, 2015 Social Sciences 86
The gender asset and wealth gaps: evidence from Ecuador, Ghana, and Karnataka, India
CR Doss, CD Deere, AD Oduro, H Swaminathan
2011 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, 2011 Social Sciences 81
Trade reforms and food security
H Thomas
2006 FAO, 2006 Agriculture 77
Basic education in Ghana in the post-reform period
AD Oduro
2000 Accra: Centre for policy analysis, 2000 Social Sciences 76
Determinants of moonlighting in Ghana: an empirical investigation
W Baah-Boateng, AD Oduro, P Adjei
2013 African Review of Economics and Finance 4 (2), 176-202, 2013 Social Sciences 72
Access to Basic Education in Ghana: The Evidence and the Issues. Country Analytic Report.
K Akyeampong, J Djangmah, A Oduro, A Seidu, F Hunt
2007 Online Submission, 2007 Social Sciences 61
Investigating chronic poverty in West Africa
A Oduro, I Aryee
2003 CPRC Working Paper, 2003 Social Sciences 59
Gendered paths to asset accumulation? Markets, savings, and credit in developing countries
CR Doss, CD Deere, AD Oduro, H Swaminathan, Z Catanzarite, ...
2019 Feminist Economics 25 (2), 36-66, 2019 Social Sciences 55
Performance of the external trade sector since 1970
AD Oduro
2000 Economic Reforms in Ghana: The miracle and the mirage, 168-184, 2000 Social Sciences 48
Risk sharing in labor markets
A Bigsten, P Collier, S Dercon, M Fafchamps, B Gauthier, JW Gunning, ...
2003 The World Bank Economic Review 17 (3), 349-366, 2003 Social Sciences 47