Nwosu, O. Emmanuel

Emmanuel O. Nwosu has been a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Nigeria since October 2021 and was the Head of the Department of Economics from August 2020 to July 2022. He has been a member of AGRODEP since 2013, a researcher at the African Economic Research Consortium, the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) and affiliated with J-PAL, CEGA and DIWA. He was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington D.C. and a Technical Assistant in the Office of the Honourable Minister of Finance and CME. He holds a Master’s degree in Economic Policy Management from the University of Tsukuba, Japan and a PhD in Economics. He has conducted several funded research and published many articles in well-indexed journals indexed. His areas of research interest include environmental economics, impact evaluation, child and maternal health, labour market, gender, poverty and income distribution.

Research Interest

Development Economics (Impact evaluation, poverty and income distribution, labour market, Gender, Health and Environmental Economics), Monetary Economics, Public Financial Management, Public Policy Analysis.

Mentoring

Emmanuel has graduated 3 PhD students and over 15 Master’s students. He is currently supervising 8 Master’s and 6 PhD degree students. He has mentored staff and guided both staff students in choosing their career paths and conducting quality research.

Grants, consultancy and Capacity Building

1. Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Research Support Grant, 2005

Project: The Distributional Impact of Healthcare Financing in Nigeria: A Case Study of Enugu State

2. African Economic Research Consortium Research Grant 2006:

Project: Contingent Valuation in Community Based Project Planning: The Case of Bamendjim Fishery Restocking in Cameroun.

African Economic Research Consortium Research Grant 2010:

Project: Bank Consolidation and Bank Risk Taking Behaviour: A panel Analysis of Commercial Banks in Nigeria

4. Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Research Support Grant, 2013:

Project: Is There Discrimination Against Women Entrepreneurs in Formal Credit Markets in Nigeria?

5. Center for Environmental Policy in Africa (CEEPA) Research Grant 2014:

Project: Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Management in Nsukka Metropolis in Enugu State of Nigeria.

6. African Economic Research Consortium Research Grant 2022: Empirical Investigation of Gender Wage Gap in the Nigerian Labour Market using Waves of Household Surveys

Some Consultancy Works

1          Dec 2018-March 2019            Short-Term Senior Technical Assistant in the Office of the Secretary to Government of the Federation under the office of the Permanent Secretary Political and Economic Affairs STTA  PERL-ARC/DFID

2.         March, 2018: Costing of Child Protection Services in Plateau State Team Lead      UNICEF

3.         Oct - Nov. 2017: UNICEF Public Expenditure Rationalization - Costing of Child Protection Services and Investment in Plateau State.         Sole Consultant           UNICEF

4.         June 2017: Financial Benchmark on Child Protection Services in Plateau and Benue State.           Sole Consultant       UNICEF

5.         Nov-December, 2017: Evaluation and Analysis of Public Expenditure and Investment in Children and Families in Benue, Delta, Edo, Kogi, and Plateau State.        Sole Consultant           UNICEF

6.         July – September 2017: Evaluation and Analysis of Public Expenditure and Investment in Children and Families in Anambra, Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi State of Nigeria.       Sole Consultant           UNICEF

7.         October 2016: Training on Revenue Forecasting and Expenditure Rationalization   Resource Person            Fed. Ministry of Finance

8.         July – Nov 2006: Public Expenditure and Strategic Management for Budget Office Cross River State            Sole Consultant           USAID/DAI

9.         September, 2015: Training Programme on Compilation of Social Statistics             Sole Consultant            UNDP/NBS

10.       August 2015: Database Management and Macroeconomic Forecasting in STATA, Consultant            UNDP/NBS

11.       June – August 2013: 2013 Proposed Nigeria Trade & Investment Budget Appraisal Against the Transformation Agenda (Strategic Planning and Policy Design)       Policy Analyst FEPAR/ Fed. Min. of Finance

12.       September 2012: Review of Infant, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Implementation Strategy. Team member  World Health Organization (WHO)

13.       June 2009: Consultant to the Enugu State of Nigeria: Training of local government legislators on the design of Medium-Term Sector Strategies     Team Member Enugu State Government

14.       October 2006  Consultant to the United State Agency for International Development (USAID) State’s reforms project for economic framework for openness, reforms and macroeconomic stability for the state governments of Calabar and Ebonyi.     Team Member USAID/DAI

15.       October 2006  Workshop and Training on Public Expenditure and Strategic Management for Budget Office Cross River State         Team Member USAID/DAI

Capacity Building and Trainings Attended

1. Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), WASHINGTON D.C. 2011
2. Training Workshop on the Econometrics of Impact Evaluation by the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) at Waterfront Hotel Cape Town South Africa, 2013.
3. UNCTAD Certificate Course on Non-Tariff Measures and Data Collection 2017.
4. Training workshop on Costing of Child Protection in Nigeria by UNICEF, 2017.
5. Training on Macroeconomic Modelling for Sustainable Economic Development in Africa by the Economic Commission for Africa for Young Economists Network (ECA-YEN) December 2021-May 2022.
6. Training Workshop on Computation of Productive Capacities Index (PCI) by UNCTAD and CSEA, September 12-15, 2022, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.
7. Impact Evaluation Training and Match-Making Workshop for Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) Researchers at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in collaboration with the Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA), March 26-31, 2023, Accra Ghana.

Current Policy Engagement

1. Chairman Nigerian Economic Society, Enugu State Chapter.

International / national recognition (editorial or advisory boards, awards, etc.)

1. Managing Editor, Journal of Economics and Allied Research (JEAR).
2. Member, Development Impact West Africa (DIWA).