Emmanuel Orkoh

Postdoctoral Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala University

Emmanuel Orkoh is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden, and an Extraordinary Research Scientist at North-West University, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from North-West University and degrees from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His research focuses on the welfare and distributional impacts of trade, health, labor policies, and digital development in Africa. Dr. Orkoh has collaborated with institutions such as United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), UN Trade (UNCTAD), World Trade Organization (WTO), and Ghana Statistical Service. He is an active member of the African Growth and Development Policy (AGRODEP) Modeling Consortium, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), and Pan-African Scientific Research Council (PASRC). A 2018 WTO Ph.D. Support Programme fellow, his recent research explores climate hazards and migration in Madagascar and the link between taxation and informality in Africa.