Lecturer
Business Administration Department
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Course(s) Taught at Ashesi
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- International Trade and Policy
Biography
Dr. Cooke is a lecturer in the Business Administration Department at Ashesi University. He is an economist and his research interests are in applied international trade, poverty, inequality, and economic growth.
Education and Qualifications
- PhD (Economics), University of Sussex
- MSc (International Economics), University of Sussex
- MPhil (Economics), University of Ghana
- BA (Economics with Political Science), University of Ghana
Publications
Journal Articles, Project Reports
- Hague, Sarah, Edgar F.A. Cooke and Andy McKay (2016), Child Poverty and Inequality in Ghana: Positive highlights from the new household Survey, conference paper presented in Abuja
- Cooke, Edgar F.A., Sarah Hague and Andy McKay (2016), "The Ghana Inequality and Poverty Report: Using the 6th Ghana Living Standards Survey", Accra: UNICEF
- Cooke, Edgar F.A., Sarah Hague, Luca Tiberti, John M. Cockburn, Abdel-Rahmen El Lahga, 2016. Estimating the impact on poverty of Ghana’s fuel subsidy reform and a mitigating response. Journal of Development Effectiveness 8, 105–128. doi:10.1080/19439342.2015.1064148
- Cirera, Xavier and Edgar F.A. Cooke (2015) "Trade Preferences" in Oliver Morrissey, Ricardo Lopez and Kishor Sharma (Eds.), Handbook of Trade and Development. Edward Elgar.
- Antwi-Asare, Theodore, John Cockburn, Edgar F. A. Cooke, Ismaiel Fofana, Luca Tiberti and Daniel K. Twerefou (2010), "Simulating the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis and Policy Responses on Children in Ghana", Innocenti Working Paper No. 2010-05, UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa, Dakar, and UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence (available at: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/601).