Abena D Oduro
Biographic Data
| ID | 121838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abena D Oduro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abena D |
| FAMILY NAME | Oduro |
| SIGNATURE | ODURO A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0321-8860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“You Don’t Solve Your Problems by Sacrificing Your Aged”
This exploration examines the extent to which equity considerations are addressed in designing Ghana’s domestic debt exchange program. Equity considerations are important because of the heterogeneity among bondholders in terms of their ability to provide debt relief to the government. The interaction between Ghana’s Ministry of Finance and the Pensioner Bondholder Forum (PBF) in 2023 is documented to examine how the power relations between the tw…
Debt, Distress, and Defiance
Global debt distress is a crisis of unprecedented severity, affecting fifty-four countries and 3.2 billion people. United Nations agencies estimate that interest payments on external debt far exceed public expenditure on health and education. During this catalytic moment, this special issue presents feminist political economy perspectives linking debt at the national level to the household level, and both to the unequal architecture of internatio…
Examining Land Inheritance Patterns in Ghana Through a Gender Lens
The growing literature on women's land rights in the1990s triggered international development policy support for land titling with the aim of strengthening women's land rights. However, land titling is unlikely to close the gender gap in land ownership if the main mode of acquiring land, inheritance, is not equally available to women and men. The paper draws upon two surveys on gendered access to land ownership to examine how Ghana's customary an…
Regional integration and non‐tariff barriers to Intra‐ Sub‐Saharan Africa trade
The paper assesses the ex‐post trade effect of sub‐regional trade agreements (RTAs), financial integration and other non‐tariff barriers on intra‐regional trade involving 43 Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. The objective is to find out if RTAs within SSA had increased trade flows to inform current efforts of establishing a successful continental free trade area in SSA. Estimating a gravity model augmented with measures of trade agreements and …
Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics
African and African diaspora scholars have made key contributions to contemporary understandings of inequality, intersectionality, institutions and ‘development'. A recent major contribution to this debate is offered by Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s Property, Institutions and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Drawing on a wide range of literatures, but especially from traditions of Black radical economic thought that sp…
Innovation and employment in manufacturing and service firms in Ghana
Gendered Paths to Asset Accumulation? Markets, Savings, and Credit in Developing Countries
An extensive literature shows how property inheritance is biased against women in many developing countries, yet relatively little attention has been given to gender bias in other means of acquiring physical assets, such as the market. Using individual-level data from Ecuador, Ghana, and Karnataka, India, this study analyzes modes of acquisition and financing of housing, agricultural land, other real estate, and businesses. The findings show that…
Changing Patterns of Wealth Distribution
A largely unexplored feature of structural transformation is the change in the composition of an economy’s asset holdings. In most poor economies, assets are concentrated in land. In rich economies, physical and human capital are more important. This paper focuses on the changes in the composition of household wealth and the share of assets owned by women in Ghana over two decades of relatively rapid growth and significant structural changes. We …
Women-owned businesses and household welfare
Purpose Contrary to the gender gap in favour of men in entrepreneurial activity elsewhere, in Ghana more women own businesses. This paper aims to examine the correlates between women’s business ownership and household welfare in Ghana and the socio-economic factors that affect business size. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a nationally representative survey data and ordinary least squares and IV regression methods. Findings The finding…
Assets and shocks
Drawing upon household surveys in Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka, India, we analyse the relationship between assets and shocks, distinguishing between asset loss as the shock, and the use of assets as a coping strategy. A greater proportion of households experienced a direct loss of assets due to shocks than as a coping response. In Karnataka, but not in Ghana or Ecuador, women’s assets are more likely to be sold than men’s. Asset ownership and the…
Delayed primary school enrolment among boys and girls in Ghana
Women's Wealth and Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) by men against their partners is one of the most glaring indicators of women's lack of empowerment. Drawing upon the 2010 Ecuador Household Asset Survey (EAFF) and the 2010 Ghana Household Asset Survey (GHAS), nationally representative surveys for Ecuador and Ghana, respectively, this study investigates the relationship between women's ownership of assets and physical and emotional abuse by spouses against currentl…
Engendering Economic Policy in Africa
Despite Africa's relatively commendable growth performance since 2000, growth has not been accompanied by structural transformations. First, there has been little diversification from agriculture into industry, particularly manufacturing. Second, the poverty headcount and inequality remain high in many countries, even as African countries continue to rank lowest on the United Nations Development Programme's Gender Inequality Index. This contribut…
Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India
Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India
Women's Wealth and Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) by men against their partners is one of the most glaring indicators of women's lack of empowerment. Drawing upon the 2010 Ecuador Household Asset Survey (EAFF) and the 2010 Ghana Household Asset Survey (GHAS), nationally representative surveys for Ecuador and Ghana, respectively, this study investigates the relationship between women's ownership of assets and physical and emotional abuse by spouses against currentl…
Gendered Paths to Asset Accumulation? Markets, Savings, and Credit in Developing Countries
An extensive literature shows how property inheritance is biased against women in many developing countries, yet relatively little attention has been given to gender bias in other means of acquiring physical assets, such as the market. Using individual-level data from Ecuador, Ghana, and Karnataka, India, this study analyzes modes of acquisition and financing of housing, agricultural land, other real estate, and businesses. The findings show that…
Engendering Economic Policy in Africa
Despite Africa's relatively commendable growth performance since 2000, growth has not been accompanied by structural transformations. First, there has been little diversification from agriculture into industry, particularly manufacturing. Second, the poverty headcount and inequality remain high in many countries, even as African countries continue to rank lowest on the United Nations Development Programme's Gender Inequality Index. This contribut…
Women-owned businesses and household welfare
Purpose Contrary to the gender gap in favour of men in entrepreneurial activity elsewhere, in Ghana more women own businesses. This paper aims to examine the correlates between women’s business ownership and household welfare in Ghana and the socio-economic factors that affect business size. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a nationally representative survey data and ordinary least squares and IV regression methods. Findings The finding…
Delayed primary school enrolment among boys and girls in Ghana
Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics
African and African diaspora scholars have made key contributions to contemporary understandings of inequality, intersectionality, institutions and ‘development'. A recent major contribution to this debate is offered by Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s Property, Institutions and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Drawing on a wide range of literatures, but especially from traditions of Black radical economic thought that sp…
Examining Land Inheritance Patterns in Ghana Through a Gender Lens
The growing literature on women's land rights in the1990s triggered international development policy support for land titling with the aim of strengthening women's land rights. However, land titling is unlikely to close the gender gap in land ownership if the main mode of acquiring land, inheritance, is not equally available to women and men. The paper draws upon two surveys on gendered access to land ownership to examine how Ghana's customary an…
Assets and shocks
Drawing upon household surveys in Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka, India, we analyse the relationship between assets and shocks, distinguishing between asset loss as the shock, and the use of assets as a coping strategy. A greater proportion of households experienced a direct loss of assets due to shocks than as a coping response. In Karnataka, but not in Ghana or Ecuador, women’s assets are more likely to be sold than men’s. Asset ownership and the…
Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India
Women's Wealth and Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) by men against their partners is one of the most glaring indicators of women's lack of empowerment. Drawing upon the 2010 Ecuador Household Asset Survey (EAFF) and the 2010 Ghana Household Asset Survey (GHAS), nationally representative surveys for Ecuador and Ghana, respectively, this study investigates the relationship between women's ownership of assets and physical and emotional abuse by spouses against currentl…
Engendering Economic Policy in Africa
Despite Africa's relatively commendable growth performance since 2000, growth has not been accompanied by structural transformations. First, there has been little diversification from agriculture into industry, particularly manufacturing. Second, the poverty headcount and inequality remain high in many countries, even as African countries continue to rank lowest on the United Nations Development Programme's Gender Inequality Index. This contribut…
Delayed primary school enrolment among boys and girls in Ghana
Changing Patterns of Wealth Distribution
A largely unexplored feature of structural transformation is the change in the composition of an economy’s asset holdings. In most poor economies, assets are concentrated in land. In rich economies, physical and human capital are more important. This paper focuses on the changes in the composition of household wealth and the share of assets owned by women in Ghana over two decades of relatively rapid growth and significant structural changes. We …
Women-owned businesses and household welfare
Purpose Contrary to the gender gap in favour of men in entrepreneurial activity elsewhere, in Ghana more women own businesses. This paper aims to examine the correlates between women’s business ownership and household welfare in Ghana and the socio-economic factors that affect business size. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a nationally representative survey data and ordinary least squares and IV regression methods. Findings The finding…
Assets and shocks
Drawing upon household surveys in Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka, India, we analyse the relationship between assets and shocks, distinguishing between asset loss as the shock, and the use of assets as a coping strategy. A greater proportion of households experienced a direct loss of assets due to shocks than as a coping response. In Karnataka, but not in Ghana or Ecuador, women’s assets are more likely to be sold than men’s. Asset ownership and the…
Gendered Paths to Asset Accumulation? Markets, Savings, and Credit in Developing Countries
An extensive literature shows how property inheritance is biased against women in many developing countries, yet relatively little attention has been given to gender bias in other means of acquiring physical assets, such as the market. Using individual-level data from Ecuador, Ghana, and Karnataka, India, this study analyzes modes of acquisition and financing of housing, agricultural land, other real estate, and businesses. The findings show that…
Innovation and employment in manufacturing and service firms in Ghana
Regional integration and non‐tariff barriers to Intra‐ Sub‐Saharan Africa trade
The paper assesses the ex‐post trade effect of sub‐regional trade agreements (RTAs), financial integration and other non‐tariff barriers on intra‐regional trade involving 43 Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. The objective is to find out if RTAs within SSA had increased trade flows to inform current efforts of establishing a successful continental free trade area in SSA. Estimating a gravity model augmented with measures of trade agreements and …
Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics
African and African diaspora scholars have made key contributions to contemporary understandings of inequality, intersectionality, institutions and ‘development'. A recent major contribution to this debate is offered by Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s Property, Institutions and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Drawing on a wide range of literatures, but especially from traditions of Black radical economic thought that sp…
Examining Land Inheritance Patterns in Ghana Through a Gender Lens
The growing literature on women's land rights in the1990s triggered international development policy support for land titling with the aim of strengthening women's land rights. However, land titling is unlikely to close the gender gap in land ownership if the main mode of acquiring land, inheritance, is not equally available to women and men. The paper draws upon two surveys on gendered access to land ownership to examine how Ghana's customary an…
“You Don’t Solve Your Problems by Sacrificing Your Aged”
This exploration examines the extent to which equity considerations are addressed in designing Ghana’s domestic debt exchange program. Equity considerations are important because of the heterogeneity among bondholders in terms of their ability to provide debt relief to the government. The interaction between Ghana’s Ministry of Finance and the Pensioner Bondholder Forum (PBF) in 2023 is documented to examine how the power relations between the tw…
Debt, Distress, and Defiance
Global debt distress is a crisis of unprecedented severity, affecting fifty-four countries and 3.2 billion people. United Nations agencies estimate that interest payments on external debt far exceed public expenditure on health and education. During this catalytic moment, this special issue presents feminist political economy perspectives linking debt at the national level to the household level, and both to the unequal architecture of internatio…
Economics (11 works) · Business (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Socioeconomics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Poverty (4 works)