Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema

Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema is a development economist from Burkina Faso. She is an Assistant Professor at Université Norbert Zongo, Burkina Faso. She holds a Ph.D in Applied Economics from the Université Cheick Anta Diop in Senegal, a MSc in Human Resource Economics from the Université Thomas Sankara (former Université Ouaga II) in Burkina Faso. Ms. Nikiema has worked as a Research Fellow at UNECA and a short-term consultant at the World Bank, Africa Region Chief Economist Office. She is a researcher with the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), and the Pan-African Research Center for Economic and Social Development (CARDES). Ms. Nikiema is a member of the Association for the Advancement of African Women Economists (AAAWE), and the African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium (AGRODEP). Her fieldwork included education economics, health and nutrition, gender and development, youth employment, financial inclusion, and impact evaluation.

Fields of specialization

Gender & women’s empowerment, Health and nutrition, Education and training, Youth and children

Projects

Title	Country	Themes
Rural renewable energy MSMEs operating to modernize agriculture in and Africa: Barriers, opportunities, and implications for inclusive low-carbon transition in Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	Gender & women’s empowerment , Entrepreneurship , Agriculture and food security , Climate change
Empirical review of Youth Employment Policies in Burkina	Burkina Faso	Labour markets and employment
Subvention du capital agricole des femmes et inégalités de genre au Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	Gender & women’s empowerment , Poverty and Inequality , Labour markets and employment

Details

Dr Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema
Lecturer-Researcher
Université Norbert Zongo de Koudougou

Contact information:

Burkina Faso
ritanikiema@yahoo.fr