Samuel Kobina Annim is a Ghanaian associate professor of economics with specific concentration on micro development economics and applied micro econometrics, statistician and the current head of the

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. He was appointed on 1 March 2019

Education

Annim attended St. Augustine's College, and earned his first degree in Economics from the

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. He was awarded a Master of Philosophy Degree in Economics from the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

. He earned his PhD degree in Economics from

Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. Following the completion of his doctoral studies, Samuel was engaged at the

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and

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, both in the

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, in the respective capacities of Research Associate and Post-doctoral Research Fellow.

Career

Samuel Annim started his career as a lecturer and has approximately 20 years teaching experience in Universities both in Ghana and abroad. While at the

, he contributed to a number of interventions including; institutionalization of microfinance programmes and a conference, establishment of a Data Repository Centre; upgrading the status of the Department of Economics to a School and the development of a host of policies that promotes scholarship and research administration.

Works and publications

Samuel Annim has more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and technical reports to his credit. His publications are available in academic outlets such as World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of International Development and the Oxford University Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Annim, Samuel Ghanaian statisticians Living people St. Augustine's College (Cape Coast) alumni University of Cape Coast alumni University of Ghana alumni Alumni of the University of Manchester Year of birth missing (living people) Fante people Academic staff of the University of Cape Coast