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Working paper | Taking stock of the complexities between economic growth, poverty, and inequality in Africa. ACEIR WP no. 18
Working paper | Sustainable development as an African agenda. ACEIR WP no. 17
Working paper | The Maputo Protocol: International agreements and women’s rights as an enabler of development. ACEIR WP no. 16
Working paper | The impact of the Green Transition on jobs in South Africa. ACEIR WP no. 15
Established in 2018, ACEIR is one of the 13 centres of excellence of the African Research Universities Alliance.
ACEIR researcher appointed as first female professor of economics at University of Ghana
ACEIR Ghana's Nkechi S. Owoo is the first female full professor of economics to be capped at the University of Ghana. This also means she is only the third female in the country to be promoted to the highest academic grade in economics.
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In case you missed it: Seminar series on African inequalities
We're hosting a series of seminars on African inequalities until yearend. The seminars draw on chapters from a publication by the World Bank and AFD that represents a stock-take of ACEIR's research with the AFD. Recordings are now online.
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PhD fellowship: the importance of networking and applying local knowledge
Back from a fellowship at UNU-WIDER – the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research – in Finland, PhD candidate Chandré Jacobs reflects on participating in this research capacity building opportunity.
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Contributing to summer school of cluster of research excellence in Ghana
The 2025 summer school of the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Inequalities, Poverty, and Deprivation was held at ACEIR's Ghana node, University of Ghana. Our team contributed to the school alongside European counterparts.
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