Emmanuel Agyapong Wiafe is a senior lecturer and the current acting campus manager for the GIMPA Takoradi Satellite Campus.

Emmanuel holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Economics from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Cape Coast. During the Masters program, he benefited from the AERC Collaborative Master Program where he took electives in Econometrics, Research Methods and Corporate Finance. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Economics at KwaZulu Natal University.

Before joining GIMPA, he worked at West End University College as a lecturer and as an Adjunct for several universities. He has consulted for GIZ.

From 2019 to 2021, he was appointed by the European Union as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK where he worked on Occupational Health and Safety Risk Management on construction projects in collaboration with notable professional bodies in the UK including Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Association for Project Safety (APS), Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM), among others. His research and consultancy works have received funding from The World Bank; European Union; The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Switzerland; German Development Cooperation (GIZ), etc.

His research work has been published in reputable international peer-review journals including the International Journal of Production Economics; Production Planning & Control; Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management; International Journal of Managing Projects in Business; Safety Science, among others. He is a member of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), USA and the Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS).

• Econometrics
• Development economics
• International Trade

• international finance and Trade Impact
• SME Development
• Development

Undergraduate, GIMPA Business School, GIMPA, Takoradi Campus, Ghana

• Research Methods
• Business Analytics
• Statistics for Business I and II,
• Managerial Economics
• Calculus for Business
• Mathematics for Business

Selected Publications

Peer reviewed book chapters

• Cantah, W.G., Darfor, K.N., Nunoo, J., Afful, B., Wiafe, E.A. (2023). Bank Competition and Financial Sector Stability in Ghana. In: Peprah, J.A., Derera, E., Ngalawa, H., Arun, T. (eds) Financial Sector Development in Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09345-6_6

Peer reviewed journal articles

• Ansah, S., Xungang, Z., Wiafe, E. A., & Ntim-Amo, G. (2022). Sustainable Economic Development Routes in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Dynamic Long-Run Relationship Analysis of Fiscal Policy, Energy Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emissions. Journal of Advanced Research in Economics and Administrative Sciences, 3(2), 64-94. https://doi.org/10.47631/jareas.v3i2.479
• Wiafe, E. A., Quaidoo, C., & Sekyi, S (2022). Monetary policy effectiveness in the advent of mobile money activity: Empirical evidence from Ghana, Cogent Economics and Finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2022.2039343
• Kaumba, A. A., Wiafe, E. A., & Chawinga, S. (2021) Performance of small and medium enterprises in Lilongwe district, Malawi: do village savings and loan associations matter? Small Enterprise Research. DOI: 1080/13215906.2021.1989623
• Sekyi, S., Quaidoo, C., & Wiafe, E. A. (2021). Does crop specialization improve agricultural productivity and commercialization? Insight from the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone of Ghana. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JADEE-01-2021-0021
• Bondzie, E.A., Cantah, W. G., Wiafe, E. A., & Ahiakpor, F. (2021). Macroeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Ghanaian economy. African Review of Economics and Finance, 1-27. https://www.african-review.com/online-first-details.php?id=19
• Wiafe, E. A. (2021).Willingness of employers to employ ex-convicts among selected SMEs in the western region of Ghana, Cogent Social Sciences, 7:1, DOI: 1080/23311886.2020.1868670
• Wiafe, E. A., & Anning, L (2021). Effects of Sino FDI on the Growth of Sub-Saharan Africa. Economia Internazionale/International Economics, 74 (1), 1-24 Published by Institute for International Economics, Italy.
• Cantah, G. W., Brafu-Insaidoo, G. W., Wiafe, E. A., & Adams, A (2018). FDI and Trade Policy Openness in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Economic Journal,44, (1), 97-116

Email: ewiafe@gimpa.edu.gh