Edgar Cooke

Edgar is a lecturer in the Economic and Business Administration Department at Ashesi University in Ghana. He teaches microeconomics, macroeconomics and international trade and policy to undergraduate students in his institution. His principal research interests are in the areas of poverty, inequality, economic development (in general) and international trade. Over the past few years he has gained considerable experience in the area of poverty and inequality by working on projects sponsored by PEP and UNICEF on household poverty and inequality studies. He has run simulations of the impact of fuel subsidy reforms on households in Ghana and Sudan. He has also estimated non-monetary and monetary poverty indicators, carried out benefit and incidence analysis, simulated cash transfer scenarios and measured various inequality indices as well. His research has also included analyzing child poverty and inequality outcomes in Ghana.

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