Ernest Ernest Aryeetey

Publishing since 1886, latest 2025

Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Soil Science
Urban Studies
Accounting
Education

In their own words

Development Economics

Publications: 2051886–2025
Citations: 6,132to those papers
h-index: 44i10-index 99
Field-weighted impact: 2.281.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 40%6 of 15 scored papers
Open access: 20%3 of the 15 whose access is recorded

30 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 7,721 citations, h-index 50 and i10-index 117 (1,639 citations and h-index 22 since 2021), as of October 12, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Publications

205 in all

Beyond Jobless Growth to Productive Employment
2025NEW PATHWAYS TO JOB CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAJournalFirst author0 citations
Tradition and modernity in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Achebe's Things Fall Apart
2025Economics and LiteratureBook chapterFirst author0 citations10.4324/9781003534358-4

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Economics and Econometrics105%
Finance42%
Soil Science31%
Urban Studies31%
Accounting21%
Education21%
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance21%
Business and International Management10%
Development10%
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences10%

Life Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Microfinance and Financial Inclusion6
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency4
Firm Innovation and Growth2
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth2
Islamic Finance and Banking Studies2
Land Rights and Reforms2
Urban and Rural Development Challenges2
Agricultural risk and resilience1
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development1
Community and Sustainable Development1
Community Health and Development1
Economic Growth and Development1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

40% of their 15 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written4444555Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States5
United Kingdom4

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

SOAS University of LondonGB2 papers
Brookings InstitutionUS2 papers
World BankUS2 papers
University of OxfordGB1 paper
Yale UniversityUS1 paper
University of Maryland, College ParkUS1 paper
University of LondonGB1 paper
University of NottinghamGB1 paper
Chapman UniversityUS1 paper

Where they publish

Afrique contemporaine12
Institute of Statistical10
< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …6
Globalization, Trade and Poverty in Ghana6
< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: United …5
Journal of African Economies

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

1No poverty2
8Decent work and economic growth2
10Reduced inequalities1
16Peace, justice and strong institutions1
17Partnerships for the goals1

Most cited

Supply and demand for finance of small enterprises in Ghana
World Bank Publications
1994522 citations
Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the Mirage
James Currey
2000325 citations
The characteristics of informal financial markets in Africa
African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
1995262 citations

Financing Educational Infrastructure

2025The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure FinanceBook chapterFirst author1 citation10.4324/9781032712031-31

Thinking about constitutions

2024Afrique contemporaineJournal0 citations

The constitutional order: A challenge, a trap, an opportunity

2024Afrique contemporaineJournal0 citations

Addressing youth unemployment in Ghana by supporting the agro-processing and tourism sectors

2022Africa in Focus. Available at: https://www. brookings. edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2021/06/29/addressing-youth-unemployment-in-ghana-by-supporting-the-agro-processing-and-tourism-sectors/. AccessedJournalFirst author3 citations

Employment Creation Potential, Labor Skills Requirements, and Skills Gaps for Young People: Ghana Case Study

2021< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …ReportFirst author15 citations

Addressing Youth Unemployment in Ghana: The Role of Agro-processing and Tourism

2021< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …ReportFirst author0 citations

Employment Creation and Skills Gaps in Ghana's Industries Without Smokestacks

2021< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization …ReportFirst author0 citations

Oil Resource Management in Ghana: Boom, Bust, and Dynamics

2018< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: United …ReportFirst author0 citations

The boom, the bust, and the dynamics of oil resource management in Ghana

2018Mining for ChangeJournalFirst author31 citations

Informal economies

2017PublicationFirst author3 citations

Introduction: Comparative Development Experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia

2017Comparative Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East AsiaBook chapterFirst author2 citations10.4324/9781315198668-1

Financial policies and financial sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa

2017Comparative Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East AsiaJournalFirst author6 citations

Comparative Institutional Analysis: Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia

2017Comparative Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East AsiaBook chapterSenior author16 citations10.4324/9781315198668-2

Ghana's Experiments with

2017The Practice of Industrial Policy: Government—Business Coordination in Africa and East AsiaJournalFirst author0 citations

Economic growth in Ghana

2017The economy of Ghana sixty years after independenceJournalFirst author61 citations

WIDER Working Paper 2015/140 Understanding Ghana’s growth success story and job creation challenges

2016< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: United …ReportFirst author6 citations

A Successful Growth Story with Job Creation Concerns

2016Africa’s LionsJournalFirst author13 citations

The informal economy, economic growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

2015Economic growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa: Current and emerging issuesJournalFirst author66 citations

Ghana's Experiments with Business-Government Coordination and Economic Growth

2015< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: United …ReportFirst author0 citations

WIDER Working Paper 2015/099-Ghana’s experiments with business–government co-ordination

2015< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: United …ReportFirst author0 citations

Ghana’s Experiments with Business–Government Coordination

2015The Practice of Industrial PolicyJournalFirst author13 citations

Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges

2015WIDER Working PaperReportFirst author164 citations

Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria by Ngozi Okonjoiweala

2014Journal of Economic InsightJournal0 citations

663 African Development Banks: Lessons for Development Economics

2014The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Volume 2: Policies and PracticesBook chapterFirst author0 citations

Litigants' Access to Justice in Senegal: Toward Local Justice?

2014Afrique contemporaineJournal0 citations

Ghana country study

2014Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Working but Poor. London: RoutledgeJournalFirst author3 citations

Country Studies, Chapter 5, Ghana

2014Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Working but PoorJournalFirst author4 citations

Managing Ghana's Oil Boom for Structural Transformation

2014Sub-Saharan Publishers for Institute of StatisticalReportFirst author0 citations

State–business relations and firm performance in Ghana

2013State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and IndiaBook chapter2 citations

Findings of the Nobel laureate economist expert panel

2012Cambridge University Press eBooksBook chapterFirst author0 citations10.1017/cbo9781139236805.011

Findings of the Nobel laureate

2012RethinkHIV: Smarter Ways to Invest in Ending HIV in Sub-Saharan AfricaJournalFirst author0 citations

Wage and employment effects of trade liberalization: the case of Ghanaian manufacturing

2012Globalisation, Trade and Poverty in Ghana. Ottawa: International Development Research CentreJournal15 citations

An overview of trade policies and development in Ghana

2012Globalization, trade and poverty in GhanaJournalSenior author23 citations

Wage and Employment Effects of Trade

2012Globalization, Trade and Poverty in GhanaJournal1 citation

10 Cash Cropping, Gender and Household Welfare: Evidence from Ghana

2012Globalization, Trade and Poverty in GhanaJournalSenior author6 citations

African Development Review4

Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the Mirage4

How it can be read

20% free to read, of the 15 recorded

Diamond 1 · 0%Free to read and to publish
Bronze 1 · 0%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 0%A copy in a repository
Closed 12 · 6%Behind a paywall
Unknown 190 · 93%Not recorded by the source