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

11. The changing regulatory environment and its implications for the performance of small-and medium-sized enterprises in Ghana
2006Regulating DevelopmentJournalFirst author2 citations
Special issue on the Conference on shared growth in Africa, Accra, 21-22 July 2005
2006African Development ReviewJournalFirst author0 citations

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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

2006Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)ReportFirst author4 citations

Agricultural market access in Ghana

2006Institute of StatisticalReportFirst author18 citations

Ghana’s post-independence economic growth performance

2006Accra: ISSERJournalSenior author8 citations

Monitoring donor and IFI support behind country-owned Poverty Reduction Strategies in Ghana

2005Report for the Commonwealth SecretariatJournalFirst author20 citations

Centre on Regulation and Competition

2005Utility regulation in Ghana (Working PaperJournalFirst author0 citations

Utilities regulation in Ghana

2005Centre on Regulation and…JournalFirst author24 citations

Helping the poor?: the IMF and low-income countries

2005(No Title)JournalSenior author6 citations

Openness, income distribution and poverty

2005Globalisation, Employment and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Ghana. Accra: ISSER publication, University of GhanaJournalSenior author2 citations

The Role of the Financial Sector in Securing Pro-poor Growth

2005Poverty, Growth and Institutions: Seminar Papers. Cape Town, African Economic Research ConsortiumJournalFirst author5 citations

Globalisation, Employment and Poverty Reduction

2005Accra: Woeli Publishing ServicesReportFirst author2 citations

New Finance for African Development

2005Low-Income CountriesJournalFirst author0 citations

Informal finance for private sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa

2005Journal of Microfinance/ESR ReviewJournalFirst author147 citations

Financing Africa’s future growth and development: some innovations

2004Unpublished Working Paper, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana (www. g24. org/aryeetey. pdf)JournalFirst author20 citations

Operationalising pro-poor growth

2004A Country Case Study on GhanaJournalSenior author13 citations

Operationalising pro-poor growth: a country case study on Ghana

2004Frankfurt: KfWJournalSenior author71 citations

Development Policy Framework

2004Macroeconomic Stability, Growth and Poverty Reduction in GhanaJournalFirst author0 citations

15. The institutional and policy framework for regulation and

2004Leading Issues in Competition, Regulation, and DevelopmentJournalFirst author0 citations

Mobilization of private savings for financing pro-poor growth

2004Financing Pro-poor Growth in Africa: Seminar papersJournalFirst author2 citations

A development-focused allocation of the special drawing rights

2004New Sources of Development Finance. Oxford University Press: Oxford, for UNU-WIDERJournalFirst author40 citations

Operationalizing pro-poor growth: Ghana case study

2004Department for International Development,…JournalFirst author44 citations

Household asset choice among the rural poor in Ghana

2004Institute of statistical, social and economic research, University of GhanaJournalFirst author73 citations

Essential financial market reforms in Africa

2004Institute of StatisticalReportFirst author56 citations

Recent Developments in African Financial Markets: Agenda for Further Research

2003Journal of African EconomiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding24 citations10.1093/jae/12.suppl_2.ii111

Does tying aid make it more costly? a Ghanaian case study

2003workshop on ‘Quantifying the Impact of Rich Countries’ Policies on Poor CountriesJournalFirst author34 citations

Financial Policies and Financial sector Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

2003Ashgate (Routledge)ReportSenior author0 citations

Asia and Africa in the global economy

2003United Nations University PressReportFirst author8 citations

Economic growth in Ghana: 1960-2000

2003Draft, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, KenyaJournalFirst author153 citations

Explaining Ghana's Economic Growth Performance

2002< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: African …ReportFirst author0 citations

Explaining African economic growth performance: The case of Ghana

2002Growth Working PaperJournalFirst author58 citations

15. The institutional and policy framework for regulation and competition in Ghana

2002Leading issues in competition, regulation and developmentJournalFirst author15 citations

Regional Integration in West Africa

2001OecdPublicationFirst author86 citations

Strengthening Ghana's Financial Market: An Integrated and Functional Approach

2001Institute of StatisticalReportFirst author18 citations

IV Factor Markets 11

2000Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the MirageJournalFirst author0 citations

Aid, debt and growth

2000Economic Reforms in Ghana: The miracle and the mirageJournal46 citations

Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the Mirage

2000James CurreyReportSenior author325 citations

VI Socio-Economic 15

2000Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the MirageJournalFirst author0 citations

A7T Socio-Economic**-Development

2000Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the MirageJournalFirst author3 citations

A diagnostic study of research and technology development in Ghana

2000Institute of StatisticalReportFirst author11 citations

Ghana: Social-policy reform in Africa

2000IDRCReportFirst author38 citations

The evolution of social policy

2000Economic Reforms: The Miracle and the Mirage’, Ernest Aryeetey, Jane Harrigan, and Machiko Nissanke (ed), James Currey and Woeli PublicationsJournalFirst author30 citations

Saving in Sub-Saharan Africa

2000CID Working PapersJournalFirst author120 citations

Macroeconomic and sectoral developments since 1970

2000Economic Reforms in Ghana, The Miracle and The Mirage. Oxford: James CurreyJournalFirst author138 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