Aboagye, Solomon
Solomon Aboagye is a doctoral student at EPRU, University of Cape Town. Under the supervision of Prof Edwin Muchapondwa, Solomon is focusing on several aspects of households’ modern energy deprivations beyond connections and access based on the MTF Global survey of the World Bank/ESMAP.
His research interests are borders mainly in energy, environment and resource management as well as their interlinkages with other sectors of the economy. Solomon’s current publications are in the areas of emissions, efficiency and household energy decisions with focus on Ghana, South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa in general.
Publications
Kwakwa P. A, Aboagye S., Acheampong V., and Achaamah A., (2023), “Renewable energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in Ghana: the effects of financial strength of listed financial institutions”, International Journal of Energy Sector Management, 17(2): 1-21.
Kwakwa P. A, Acheampong V., and Aboagye S., (2021), “Does agricultural development affect environmental quality? The case of carbon dioxide in Ghana”, Management of Environmental Quality, 7(3): 14-32.
Aboagye S, Appiah-Konadu P and Acheampong V. (2020), “Economic Expansion and Environmental Degradation in Ghana: A Sector Decomposition Analysis”, African Journal of Economic Review, 8(1): 106-123.
Aboagye S. (2019), “Examining the energy consumption and CO2 emissions nexus in South Africa within the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis framework”, Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research, 9(2): 64-82 (2019)
Aboagye S. (2019), “What drives energy intensity in Ghana? A test of the Environmental Kuznets hypothesis”, OPEC Energy Review, September 2019, 259-276
Aboagye S. (2019), “Is Energy Consumption Responsible for Environmental Degradation in Ghana?” Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research, 9(1): 38-50 (2019)
Kwakwa P. A., Alhassan H. and Aboagye S., (2018) Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in a financial development and natural resource extraction context: evidence from Tunisia, Quantitative Finance and Economics, 2(4): 981–1000
Aboagye S. (2017), “Economic Expansion and Environmental Sustainability Nexus in Ghana”, African Development Review, 29(2): 155–168
Aboagye S. (2017), “The policy implications of the relationship between energy consumption, energy intensity and economic growth in Ghana”, OPEC Energy Review, December 2017, 344-363
Aboagye S. and Alagidede P. (2016), Energy consumption efficiency in Sub- Saharan Africa: evidence and policies, Ghanaian Journal of Economics, 4(December 2016): 116-138
Aboagye S. and Nketiah-Amponsah E. (2016), “The implication of economic growth, industrialization and urbanization on energy intensity in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research, 6(4): 197-211
Kwakwa P. A., Aboagye S., and Alhassan H., (2015), “Towards energy sustainability in Ghana: a review of the empirics and determinants of energy consumption”. In Wiafe E. D. and Arku F. S. (eds.) Sustainable Utilization and Management of Natural Resources in the era of Climate Change (pp. 93-113) New York: Nova Science Publishers
Aboagye S., Nketiah-Amponsah E., and Barimah A. (2014), “Disaggregated Growth and Environmental quality in developing countries: Some evidence from Sub Saharan Africa” Review of Social Science, 9(8): 17 – 30
Kwakwa P. A., and Aboagye S. (2014), “Energy consumption in Ghana and the story of economic growth, industrialization, trade openness and urbanization” Journal of Economics and Empirical Research 1(1): 1 – 5
Aboagye S. and Kwakwa P. A., (2014), “The relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability: evidence from selected Sub Sahara African countries”, The Ghanaian Journal of Economics, 2(December 2014): 135-153
Kwakwa P. A, Arku F. S. and Aboagye S. (2014), “Environmental degradation effect of agricultural and industrial growth in Ghana”, Journal of Rural and Industrial Development, 2(1): 1 – 8