Dr. Michael Kodom

Biography
Research Areas
Publications
Recent Projects
Teaching Programmes

Michael Kodom’s research interest focuses on assessing the interlinkages between digitalization and development. His substantive research areas include digital financial inclusion, health, and gender. He has published in Enterprise Development and Microfinance, and the Journal of Asian and African Studies. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Development Studies and a BA in Political Science, and Geography and Resource Development, all from the University of Ghana. Before joining ISSER as a research fellow, he worked as a principal research assistant at ISSER’s Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Unit for two years. He was also an Adjunct Lecturer at GIMPA, Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), and KNUST Institute of Distance Learning.

Digital Financial Services
Microfinance and Development
Gender and Development
Health and Development

Journal Articles

Kodom, M., Ackah, C., Steel, W.F. & Bokpin, G.A. (2020). Drivers of Mobile Financial Inclusion in Ghana. Enterprise Development and Microfinance, 31(4), 226–253. https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.20-00008
Kodom, M., Owusu, A.Y., and Kodom, P. N. B (2019). Quality Healthcare Service Assessment under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909619827331
Kodom, P. N. B, Kodom, M., and Senah, K. (2018). “Why we deliver elsewhere”: Women Preferred Places of Delivery and their Effects. Sociology and Anthropology, 6(3), 321 – 329. DOI:10.13189/sa.2018.060305

Period	Employing organization:	Project	Role
2021 – Date	USAID/ICED	ALL-INS: The Poverty Reduction Impact of Relaxing Constraints in the Shea Value Chain	Co-Investigator
January 20 – March 15, 2022	International Justice Mission	Peoples Reliance on the Criminal Justice System in Ghana	Co-Investigator

Short Course – Data Management and Analysis
Short Course – Qualitative Data Analysis