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Emmanuel Kumi

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Verified email at ug.edu.gh University of Ghana ORCID 0000-0001-8318-8499 Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
DepartmentCENTRE FOR SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES SECRETARIAT
NGOsCivil SocietyDevelopment AidPhilanthropyInternational Development
Publications

80

Citations

1,567

H-index

20

i10-index

27

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
19.6
Most cited paper
243
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
13 Sep 2026, 22:31
Publications

80 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Can post-2015 sustainable development goals survive neoliberalism? A critical examination of the sustainable development–neoliberalism nexus in developing countries
E Kumi, AA Arhin, T Yeboah
2014 Environment, development and sustainability 16 (3), 539-554, 2014 Humanities 243
Private sector participation in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Ghana: Experiences from the mining and telecommunications sectors
E Kumi, T Yeboah, YA Kumi
2020 The Extractive Industries and Society 7 (1), 181-190, 2020 Humanities 152
Facing the bullet? Non-Governmental Organisations’(NGOs’) responses to the changing aid landscape in Ghana
AA Arhin, E Kumi, MAS Adam
2018 VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 29 …, 2018 Humanities 141
Government's ban on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, youth livelihoods and imagined futures in Ghana
L Osei, T Yeboah, E Kumi, EF Antoh
2021 Resources Policy 71, 102008, 2021 Humanities 96
Aid, aid volatility and sectoral growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: does finance matter?
E Kumi, M Ibrahim, T Yeboah
2017 Journal of African Business 18 (4), 435-456, 2017 Social Sciences 87
Is better to be a kayayei than to be unemployed: reflecting on the role of head portering in Ghana’s informal economy
T Agyei, Y.A., Kumi, E., & Yeboah
2015 GeoJournal 81 (2), 293–318, 2015 Humanities 85
Advancing the sustainable development goals: an analysis of the potential role of philanthropy in Ghana
E Kumi
2019 Journal of Asian and African Studies 54 (7), 1084-1104, 2019 Humanities 76
Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries
JC Glasbey, TEF Abbott, A Ademuyiwa, A Adisa, E AlAmeer, S Alshryda, ...
2022 The Lancet 400 (10363), 1607-1617, 2022 Health Sciences 62
Farmers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the Cocoa Disease and Pest Control Programme (CODAPEC) in Ghana and its effects on poverty reduction
E Kumi
2015 American Journal of Experimental Agriculture 7 (5), 257-274, 2015 Agriculture 56
Aid Reduction and NGDOs’ Quest for Sustainability in Ghana: Can Philanthropic Institutions Serve as Alternative Resource Mobilisation Routes?
E Kumi
2019 VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 30 …, 2019 Humanities 50
From donor darling to beyond aid? Public perceptions of ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’
E Kumi
2020 The Journal of Modern African Studies 58 (1), 67-90, 2020 Humanities 45
Fighting poverty from the street: Perspectives of some female informal sector workers on gendered poverty and livelihood portfolios in Southern Ghana
E Kumi, A ARHIN
2015 Humanities 41
Greasing or sanding the wheels? Effect of corruption on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
M Ibrahim, E Kumi, T Yeboah
2015 African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 4 (2), 157-173, 2015 Social Sciences 39
Pandemic democracy: the nexus of covid-19, shrinking civic space for civil society organizations and the 2020 elections in Ghana
E Kumi
2022 Democratization 29 (5), 939-957, 2022 Humanities 36
Friend or Patron? Social Relations Across the National NGO–Donor Divide in Ghana
E Kumi, J Copestake
2021 The European Journal of Development Research, 1-24, 2021 Social Sciences 31
Domestic resource mobilisation strategies of national non‐governmental organisations in Ghana
E Kumi
2022 Public Administration and Development, 1-19, 2022 Social Sciences 28
Understanding the motivations and roles of national development experts in Ghana:‘We do all the donkey work and they take the glory’
E Kumi, P Kamruzzaman
2021 Third World Quarterly 42 (6), 1157-1175, 2021 Humanities 25
Does religious faith matter in development practice? Perspectives from the Savelugu-Nanton district in northern Ghana
S Dotsey, E Kumi
2020 Forum for Development Studies 47 (2), 351-381, 2020 Social Sciences 23
Empowering and shaping gender relations? Contesting the microfinance–gender empowerment discourse
T Yeboah, A Arhin, E Kumi, L Owusu
2015 Development in Practice 25 (6), 895-908, 2015 Social Sciences 23
Diversify Or Die?: The Response of Ghanaian Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) to a Changing Aid Landscape
E Kumi
2017 University of Bath, 2017 Humanities 22
How internationally funded NGOs promote gender equality in horticulture value chains in Kenya
E Kumi, W Elbers
2022 Third World Quarterly 43 (9), 2112-2128, 2022 Social Sciences 19
Domestic Resource Mobilisation Strategies of National Non-Governmental Development Organisations in Ghana
E Kumi
2017 Bath Papers in International Development and Wellbeing, 2017 Humanities 18
Strategic responses of microfinance institutions to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis in Ghana
T Yeboah, EF Antoh, E Kumi
2022 Development in Practice 32 (1), 112-127, 2022 Health Sciences 17
Hybridisation of institutional logics and civil society organisations' advocacy in Kenya
E Kumi, T Saharan
2022 Public Administration and Development 42 (4), 245-255, 2022 Social Sciences 13
Analysing the relationship between domestic resource mobilisation and civic space: Results of a scoping study
E Kumi, R Hayman
2019 INTRAC, Change the Game Academy and Civic Engagement Alliance, April, 2019 Humanities 11