Theme: Trade, Poverty and Vulnerability

• Speaker : Prof. Charles ADJASI
• Home Univsersity : Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
• Period : 8 – 12 August 2023 / 9H – 15H

Lectures

1. Review of trade theory and welfare implications
2. Concepts of poverty and vulnerability and STATA application
3. Empirical papers:
   • Welfare Implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area: A simulation analysis
   • Trade liberalization and poverty in Ghana (Ocran and Adjasi 2009)
4. Discussions
   • Short in-class discussions and presentations
   • Trade policy and household vulnerability: Evidence from Ghana

Presentation of Papers

• Remittances and vulnerability of smallholder farmers in Ghana
• Finance and household enterprise performance in Ghana