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Kofi Takyi Asante

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Verified email at ug.edu.gh ISSER, University of Ghana, Legon ORCID 0000-0002-8459-1375 Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteINST. OF STAT. SOC.& ECON. RES
DepartmentINSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH SECRETARIAT
state formationcolonialismcitizenshippolitical economy
Publications

48

Citations

298

H-index

11

i10-index

12

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
6.2
Most cited paper
31
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
13 Sep 2026, 23:50
Publications

48 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
The politics of policy failure in Ghana: The case of oil palm
KT Asante
2023 World Development Perspectives 31, 100509, 2023 Social Sciences 31
Individualistic and collectivistic orientations: Examining the relationship between ethnicity and national attachment in Ghana
KT Asante
2020 Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 20 (1), 2-24, 2020 Social Sciences 26
Political economy of the oil palm value chain in Ghana
KT Asante
2021 The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2021 Social Sciences 23
“You cannot rely on bank loans to expand your business”: aversion to formal credit among female micro-entrepreneurs in Ghana
C Ackah, GD Torvikey, F Obeng Adomaa, KT Asante
2024 International Journal of Social Economics 51 (7), 870-883, 2024 Social Sciences 20
Strategic coethnicity: social capital and entrepreneurial strategies of two Ghanaian migrant businesses
KT Asante
2018 Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy …, 2018 Social Sciences 19
Religion as a tool in strengthening the democratic process in Ghana
MPK Okyerefo, DY Fiaveh, KT Asante
2011 Journal of African Studies and development 3 (6), 124, 2011 Humanities 16
Heterogeneous market participation channels and household welfare
FM Dzanku, KT Asante, LS Hodey
2024 Oxford Development Studies 52 (1), 74-93, 2024 Social Sciences 15
Social accountability and anti-corruption in Ghana’s Fertiliser Subsidy Programme
KT Asante, S Mullard
2021 Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2021 Social Sciences 15
Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in Ghana
KT Asante
2022 WIDER Working Paper, 2022 Social Sciences 14
Citizens or spectators? Civic engagement and informality of citizenship in Ghana
KT Asante
2020 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7 (2), 1-17, 2020 Social Sciences 14
Political corruption and the limits of anti-corruption activism in Ghana
KT Asante, M Khisa
2019 Political Corruption in Africa, 29-51, 2019 Social Sciences 14
Imagining Citizenship and Belonging in Ghana: KT Asante
KT Asante
2020 Development 63 (1), 90-94, 2020 Social Sciences 11
Nested Patriotism: Revisiting Collaboration, Resistance and Agency in Colonial Ghana
KT Asante
2020 International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 33 (3), 347-364, 2020 Social Sciences 8
Smallholder farmers’ choice of oil palm commercialisation model and household welfare in South-western Ghana
FM Dzanku, KT Asante, W Quarmine, LS Hodey
2020 APRA Working paper 43, 2020 Social Sciences 8
National movements in colonial Africa
KT Asante
2014 The history of African development, 1-17, 2014 Social Sciences 8
Post-COVID economic crisis, citizen-state relations, and the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) controversy in Ghana
KT Asante, E Kumi, M Kodom
2024 World Development Perspectives 35, 100621, 2024 Social Sciences 7
Explaining the weakness of associational life in oil palm growing communities in southwestern Ghana
D Takyiakwaa, PSK Tetteh, KT Asante
2021 The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2021 Social Sciences 7
“INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE COUNTRY” Factionalism in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast Administration
KT Asante
2018 African Economic History 46 (2), 63-92, 2018 Social Sciences 6
Inequality and inclusive development in Ghana
ANA Sowah, PSK Tetteh, KT Asante
2023 Reduced Inequalities, 205, 2023 Social Sciences 5
Truly National? Social Exclusion and the Ghana@ 50 Celebrations
NA Anyidoho, KT Asante
2008 Ghana Studies 11 (1), 139-173, 2008 Social Sciences 5
‘Associations do not survive here’: Inequality, Mistrust and Obstacles to Collective Action in Oil Palm Growing Communities in Ghana
D Takyiakwaa, PSK Tetteh, KT Asante
2025 Journal of Asian and African Studies 60 (5), 2864-2876, 2025 Social Sciences 4
'Purchased allies' or'thorns in the side of the government'?: African Merchants and Colonial State Formation in the Nineteenth Century Gold Coast
KT Asante
2016 Northwestern University, 2016 Social Sciences 4
Neoliberal Hegemony and the Narrowing Discursive Space for Social Policymaking in Africa
RK Foli, KT Asante
2025 African and Asian Studies 24 (1-2), 148-167, 2025 Social Sciences 3
The political economy of natural resource conflicts in Ghana: The case of the Songor
ET Lawer, P Siakwah, CC Mba, KT Asante
2024 World Development Perspectives 36, 100641, 2024 Social Sciences 3
“What are we celebrating?”: Nation-Building and The Politics of Independence Commemoration in Ghana
MJ MANU-OSAFO, E LAMPTEY, KT ASANTE
2021 e-Rea. Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone, 2021 Social Sciences 3