Edward Asiedu published a paper entitled “Economic Recovery but Stagnating Mental Health During a Global Pandemic? Evidence from Ghana and South Africa” in the journal “Review of Income and Wealth”. In this study the authors explore the mental and economic well-being of the urban poor in Ghana and South Africa comparing the COVID-19 lockdown and the “new normal” one year later.
Dr. Asiedu holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Business School. He is currently visiting the University of Passau as a Fellow at the Chair of Development Economics (Prof. Michael Grimm) and undertakes research in the field of behavioural and development economics.
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