PUBLICATIONS

Dataset

• Inclusive Green Growth Dataset for African Countries
  

2025

• Distributional Energy Justice and the Inclusive Human Development Agenda in Africa, World Development, 2025.
  

• Energy consumption, democracy, and income inequality in Africa, Empirical Economics, (Joint with Samuel Adams and Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo), 2025.
  

• Heterogeneous effects of frontier technology adoption on economic growth in Africa, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, (Joint with Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo, Andrea Vezzulli), 2025.
  

2024

• Foreign Aid, Infrastructure, and the Inclusive Growth Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa, Growth and Change, (Joint with Nathanael Ojong and Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo), 2024.
  

• Economic globalisation and Africa’s quest for greener and more inclusive growth: The missing link, International Economics, (Joint with Andreas Freytag and Simplice A. Asongu), 2024.
  

• Repackaging FDI for inclusive growth: Nullifying effects and policy-relevant thresholds of governance, Transnational Corporations Review, (Joint with Simplice A. Asongu), 2024.
  

2023

• Foreign direct investment and inclusive green growth in Africa: Energy efficiency contingencies and thresholds, Energy Economics, (Joint with Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo and Nathanael Ojong), 2023.
  

• Bridging Africa’s income inequality gap: How relevant is China’s outward FDI to Africa?, Economic Systems, (Joint with Marcel A. Toyo Dossou, Simplice A. Asongu and Mark K. Armah), 2023.
  

• Towards inclusive growth in Africa: Remittances and financial development interactive effects and thresholds, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, (Joint with Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo, Richard K. Nkrumah, Marcel A. Toyo Dossou and Emmanuel Nkansah), 2023.
  

• Towards sustainability: The relationship between foreign direct investment, economic freedom and inclusive green growth in sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Cleaner Production, (Joint with Francesco Figari and Nathanael Ojong), 2023.
  

2022

• Economic globalisation and inclusive green growth in Africa: Contingencies and policy‐relevant thresholds of governance, Sustainable Development, (Joint with Francesco Figari), 2022.
  

• What drives financial sector development in Africa? Insights from machine learning, Applied Artificial Intelligence, (Joint with Pamela E. Ofori and Christopher Quaidoo), 2022.
  

• Towards inclusive green growth in Africa: Critical energy-efficiency synergies and governance thresholds, Journal of Cleaner Production, (Joint with Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo and Nathanael Ojong), 2022.
  

BOOK CHAPTER

• Veling, L. & Ofori, I. K. (eds). The Sustainable Enterprise: Transforming Business For The Future, OAK TREE PRESS, Cork T12 XY2N, 2024.
  

• Inclusive Green Growth in OECD Countries: Insight from the Lasso Regularisation and Inferential Techniques, Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Mathematics: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications, (joint with Andrea Vezzulli, Isaac K. Ofori and Emmanuel Gbolonyo), 2023.
  

• Global Value Chain Participation and Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, (joint with Camara Obeng and Peter Y. Mwinlaaru), 2022.
  

• What Really Drives Financial Sector Development in Ghana? Evidence from Machine Learning, In: Arun, T., Ngalawa, H., Derera, E., & Peprah, J. A (eds), Palgrave Handbook on Financial Sector Development in Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, (joint with Camara Obeng), 2022.
  

WORKING PAPERS

• Frontier Technology Adoption, Energy Equity and Environmental Quality of Life in Sub-Saharan Africa, (Joint with Pamela E. Ofori and Nathanael Ojong).
  

• Towards inclusivity: The impact of frontier technology adoption on inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (Joint with Pamela E. Ofori, Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo, and Simplice Asongu)
  

• Frontier Technology Adoption and Inclusive Green Growth in the EU: A Double-edged Sword? (Joint with Louise Veling and John Cullen).
  

• Does Economic Complexity Promote Inclusive Green Growth (Joint with Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo and Nathanael Ojong)
  

• Frontier Technology Readiness, Democracy, and Income Inequality in Africa
  

• Effects of Innovation and Economic Freedom on Female Economic Inclusion (Joint with Isaac K. Ofori and Paolo Castelnovo).
  

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Innovation, Environmental Taxes and Environmental Wellbeing (joint with Andrea Vezzulli, Paolo Castelnovo, Pamela E. Ofori).

• Carbon Tax and Wellbeing (joint with Andrea Vezzulli, Paolo Castelnovo, Pamela E. Ofori).