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• Health Economics
• International Trade and Finance
• Public Sector Economics.

• Health Economics
• Healthcare Financing
• Impact Evaluation
  Analysis
• Healthcare System Efficiency Analysis

Grant Agreement No.: 2022-392/08
Award Reference Number: DRGCP20/05
Awarding Organization: Development Impact West Africa
Funding Organization: Hewlett Foundation
Amount Awarded: $19,500
Period of Grant Award: October 16, 2023 – February 28, 2025
Title of Project: Impact Evaluation of the Ghana Accountability Outcome Project
Role on the Project: Principal Investigator

• Economics
• Statistics
• Research Methods
• Quantitative Methods

• Arhin K, Asante-Darko D (2023) Performance evaluation of national healthcare systems in the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0294653. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294653

• Arhin, K., Oteng-Abayie, E. F., & Novignon, J. (2023). Effects of healthcare financing policy tools on health system efficiency: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa. Heliyon, 9(10), e20573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20573

• Arhin, K., Oteng-Abayie, E.F. & Novignon, J. (2023). Cost efficiency of primary health care facilities in Ghana: stochastic frontier analysis. Discover Health Systems 2, 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44250-023-00044-8

• Arhin K, Oteng-Abayie EF, Novignon J. (2023). Assessing the efficiency of health systems in achieving the universal health coverage goal: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Health Economics Review. May 2; 13(1):25. doi 10.1186/s13561-023-00433-y. PMID: 37129773; PMCID: PMC10152035.

• Acheampong, K., Frimpong, A. O., & Arhin, K. (2023). Effect of Foreign Capital Inflows on Domestic Credit to the Private Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Social Science Journal. http://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12411

• Arhin, K., Frimpong, A. O., Boso, R., & Acheampong, K. (2023). A double bootstrap data envelopment analysis model for evaluating malaria spending efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa. Healthcare Analytics, 100137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.health.2023.100137.

• Frimpong, A., Arhin, K., Boachie, M. & Acheampong, K. (2023). A gravity model approach to understanding the spread of pandemics: Evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak. Open Health, 4(1), 20220032. https://doi.org/10.1515/ohe-2022-0032

• Arhin K, Frimpong AO, Acheampong K. Effect of Primary Health Care Expenditure on Universal Health Coverage: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. ClinicoEcon Outcomes Res. 2022; 14:643-652. https://doi.org/10.2147/CEOR.S380900. PMCID: PMC9549798. PMID: 36225199.

• Arhin, K., & Frimpong, A. O. (2022). Assessing the Efficiency of Public Health and Medical Care Services in Curbing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Retrospective Study. Global Journal of Health Science, 14(4), 111. https://doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v14n4p111.

• Frimpong, AO, Arhin K, & Acheampong, K (2022). Health systems resilience and endemic: evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Business and Professional Studies, 14 (1), 54-66, Special Issue on COVID-19 pandemic.

• Arhin, K. (2023). Studies on Health System Efficiency: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Economics, KNUST, Kumasi.

• Arhin, K. (2010). An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of Inflation on Economic Growth in Ghana (1965-2007), Master’s Thesis, Department of Economics, KNUST, Kumasi.

Email: kwarhin@gimpa.edu.gh