Uzochukwu Amakom

Uzochukwu Amakom

Country: Nigeria
Nationality: Nigeria
Region of Coverage: Africa
Language(s): French, English
Telephone: 234-42-256644
Email: amakuzob@yahoo.com
Organization: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria
Job Title: Lecturer/Research Fellow
Last Updated: Wednesday, 17 December 2008

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Macroeconomics policies for sustainable growth in Nigeria: a post mortem on socio-economic development
Nigeria’s infrastructural base and human capital formation have deteriorated further throughout the adjustment period
By Amakom, U., 2008
Produced by: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

How large is the opportunity cost of queuing in service centres? Evidence from eastern Nigeria
Surveying and examining critically the problems encountered in public service delivery systems
By Amakom, U., 2008
Produced by: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

Fiscal policy and poverty reduction in Nigeria
Fiscal policy can be a powerful tool for stabilizing the economy and avoiding large cyclical swings in unemployment
By Amakom, U., 2008
Produced by: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

Who is marginalizing whom in Nigeria? Gender analysis beyond the head of households dogma
Educating women is one of the best investments for societal development
By Amakom, U., 2008
Produced by: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria
Nigeria
Teaching and research university in Nigeria


Expertise:

My ressearch interest is focused on Poverty, Public Finance Analysis, Gender, Income Distribution, Divestment of public enterprises, and Firm level analysis. I am dexterous in the use of economics and statistical packages.

Professional/ Work Experience:

Apart from being a lecturer at the Department of Economics, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria, I am also the coordinator of the PIDLAM Thematic Research Group of the African Institute for Applied Economics. I was one of the members of the team that produced the background paper for ECOWAS Common Agricultural Policy (ECOWAP, 2005) and a member of the team that developed the National Policy on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprsies (MSMEs) in Nigeria in 2007

GDN Subject Interest:

Impact Evaluation
Gender, Poverty and Economic Policy
Trade & Regional Integration
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Water and Sanitation

Affiliation:

Member, Nigerian Economic Society (NES), Ibadan, Nigeria
Member, Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA), Ibadan , Nigeria
M ember, International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), New Delhi , India
M ember, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi , Kenya
M ember, Macro-Econometric Modelling Group (EcoMod), Brussels , Belgium
M ember, Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network (PEP), University of Laval , Canada
F ellow, International Working Group on Gender and Macroeconomics and International Economics, University of Utah , Salt Lake City , USA
M ember: GTAP of Purdue University , West Lafayette , Indiana , USA
M ember: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar , SENEGAL Membership Number: 0734/CM
Member, Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Univerisity of Oxford, UK
Member, Africa Capacity Building Foundation, Harare, Zimbabwe

Geo Interest:
Nigeria, West Africa, East Africa, Africa and South Asia

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