Dr. Richmond Atta-Ankomah

Richmond Atta-Ankomah
Senior Research Fellow

rankomah@ug.edu.gh

Richmond Atta-Ankomah is a development economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana. He holds a PhD from the Open University, UK. Before joining ISSER in early 2017, Richmond worked as a Research Associate at the Development Policy and Practice Unit, School of Social Sciences and Global Studies, The Open University, UK. He has also been a Research Associate at the African Center of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) since 2018 and served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Open University between 2017 and 2019.

The research interest of Dr Richmond Atta-Ankomah is a bit diverse but largely converges around development issues concerning households and firms in sub-Saharan Africa. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing various research protocols including those used for impact evaluations. The following are some of the specific areas he has worked on:

1. Innovation and development from both household and firm perspectives

2. Poverty, inequality and the economics of the household

3. Structural transformation especially the microeconomic implications and dynamics

4. Technology adoption and agricultural development 

5. Economic development implications of China-Africa relationship 

 

  • Okyere, C. Y., Atta-Ankomah, R., Asante-Addo, C., & Kornher, L. (2024). The effect of carbon farming training on food security and development resilience in Northern Ghana. Climate and Development, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2024.2342682
  • Atta-Ankomah, R., Adjei-Mantey, K., & Amankwah, A. (2024). Digital financial services and livelihood diversification in rural Ghana. Cogent Economics & Finance, 12(1), 2330434.
  • Atta-Ankomah, R. (2024). Mobile money and intra-household employment diversification: Empirical evidence from Ghana, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, DOI: 10.1080/20421338.2024.2317657
  • Atta-Ankomah, R., Adjei-Mantey, K., Asante-Poku, N. A., & Agyei-Holmes, A. (2024). What Makes People Happy with their Lives in Developing Countries? Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Data on Ghana. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1-26.
  • Elom, C. O., Onyeneke, R. U., Ayerakwa, H. M., Atta-Ankomah, R., Deffor, E. W., & Uwaleke, C. C. (2024). The role of information and communication technologies and access to electricity on education in Africa. Education and Information Technologies, 1-32.
  • Amankwah, A., Atta-Ankomah, R., Moshi, G. C., and Swinkels, R. A. (2023). The Welfare Effects of Structural Change and Internal Migration in Tanzania (English). Policy Research working paper  no. WPS 10530. LSMS Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
  • Atta-Ankomah, R., Lambon-Quayefio, M. and Osei, R. D. (2023). Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study. WIDER Working Paper 2023/91. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER
  • Onyeneke, R. U., Ankrah, D. A., Atta-Ankomah, R., Agyarko, F. F., Onyeneke, C. J., & Nejad, J. G. (2023). Information and Communication Technologies and Agricultural Production: New Evidence from Africa. Applied Sciences, 13(6), 3918.
  • Osei, R. D. Atta-Ankomah, R. & Lambon-Quayefio, M. (2022). Adverse Political Settlements: An Impediment to Structural Transformation and Inclusive Growth in Ghana. In Alisjahbana, A. S., Sen, K., Sumner, A., & Yusuf, A. A. (Eds). The Developer’s Dilemma (pp. 159-179). New York, United States: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978–0–19–285529–9.
  • Atta-Ankomah, R. & Okyere, C.Y. (2022). Welfare Effects of Financial Inclusion Services in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis of Mobile Money and Other Financial Services. Global Social Welfare, 1-10 
  • Atta-Ankomah, R. (2022). Credit for households in Ghana: Has mobile money (momo) improved inclusive access?. Scientific African, e01230, 1-12.
  • Atta-Ankomah, R. & Danso-Mensah, K. (2022). Best management practices for sustainable oil palm production: the case of smallholder farmers’ adoption in Ghana. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 31(2), 123-138.
  • Atta-Ankomah, R., Appiah Kubi, J., & Ackah, C. G. (2022). The Effect of Kaizen on Performance: Evidence from Manufacturing Enterprises in Ghana.  European Journal of Development Research, 34(2), 1167-1192.
  • Atta-Ankomah, R., & Osei, R. D. (2021). Structural Change and Welfare: A Micro Panel Data Evidence from Ghana. Journal of Development Studies, 57(11), 1927-1944.
  • Atta-Ankomah, R. & Tsiboe-Darko, A. (2021). Business Operational Resilience and COVID-19 Pandemic in Ghana. In ISSER (2021). The COVID 19 Business Tracker Survey in Ghana (pp. 35-54). Accra: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research. ISBN 978-9964-75-301-6
  • Atta-Ankomah, R. & Armah, R. (2021). Government and Multilateral Response to COVID-19 and Livelihood Impact. In ISSER (2021), The Socio-Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Ghana 2020 – 2021 (pp. 29-47). Accra: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research. ISBN 978-9964-75-300-9
  • Ackah, C. Atta-Ankomah, R. and Appiah Kubi, J. (2020) “Management Practices and Firm Performance: The Case of Kaizen Adoption in Ghana.” In Hosono et al (2020) Workers, Managers and Productivity: Kaizen in Developing Countries. Springer Nature
  • Mohan, G., Lampert, B., Tan-Mullins, M., and Atta-Ankomah, R. (2019), “The (im)possibility of Southern theory: the opportunities and challenges of cultural brokerage in co-producing knowledge about China-Africa relations, In: Mawdsley et al., eds. Routtledge.
  • Egbetokun, A., Atta-Ankomah, R., Jegede O., Lorenz E. (2016) “Firm Level Innovation in Africa: Overcoming Limits and Constraints”, Innovation and Development,  6(2), 161-174.
  • Atta-Ankomah, R. (2016) Chinese technologies and pro-poor industrialization in SSA: The case of furniture manufacturing in Kenya, European Journal of Development Research, 28(3), 397-413, 2016.
  • Chowa, G., Ansong, D., Masa, R., Despard, M., Osei-Akoto, I., Atta-Ankomah, R., Agyei-Holmes, A., and Sherraden M., (2012). Youth and saving in Ghana: A baseline report from the YouthSave Ghana experiment, CSD Research Report, No. 12-56.
  • Mensah, O., Williams J., Atta-Ankomah, R. & Mjomba, M. (2008) “Contextual Analysis of the Disability Situation in Ghana” Report for the Ghana Federation of the Disabled

Advanced Quantitative Research Method and Analysis (PhD Development Studies)

Development Economics (MA Development Studies)