Godfred Aawaar
The researcher's work centers on a comprehensive exploration of social and economic development across various domains, examining themes such as working capital requirements, microfinance, financial risks, market dynamics, fiscal policies, public health issues, energy sectors, insurance markets, education financing, and resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through these lenses, the study highlights the interconnectedness of different factors influencing development outcomes. By integrating themes like economic growth through financial innovation and microfinance into broader frameworks that address sustainability, resource distribution, and crisis preparedness, the researcher provides a holistic view of how social sciences can inform policies aimed at fostering resilience and promoting inclusive development in emerging markets.
Faculty Biography
Dr. Aawaar is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Accounting and Finance, KNUST School of Business, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Law (first class honours) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is a commonwealth scholar of Cranfield University, School of Management in the United Kingdom where he obtained his master’s degree in finance and management. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zululand, South Africa. Godfred has a rich background in economics and finance as an academic with over a decade of university teaching experience. He has taught and continues to teach the following courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels: Financial Econometrics, Research Techniques in Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, Bank Lending, Money and Banking, Corporate Finance, Business Finance, and Business Economics. In terms of research, Dr. Aawaar primarily focuses on financial market development in emerging and frontier markets with particular attention on their development, efficiency, integration and behavioural financial issues. Specifically, his research areas include international financial markets, behavioural finance, development finance, education finance, and international macroeconomics. He has published quite extensively in these areas in peer reviewed journals, including but not limited to Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of Economic and Administrative Science, Cogent Economics and Finance, Frontier in Finance and Economics, and International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues. He also reviews for the Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for a number of journals. Dr. Aawaar also mentors and supervises a large number of undergraduate students and postgraduate theses. He practices as an entrepreneur and actively engages in community development projects that will better the lives of many, especially, the under-privileged in society.
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Economic Growth and Development
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Global Health Care Issues
Healthcare Systems and Reforms
Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Working Capital and Financial Performance
Financial development, public health financing, and health outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open AccessThe non-linear threshold effects of public investment on sustainable trade development in Africa: a panel smooth transition regression approach
Sustainable finance and social development: do institutional quality and ICT infrastructure matter
Open AccessRegional and global shock spillovers to Africa’s equity markets: evidence from the global financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic
Financial inclusion—entrepreneurship nexus: evidence from a threshold analysis
Capital mobility, financial development and sustainable trade development in sub-Saharan Africa: a GMM-PVAR based analysis
Financial Development, Public Health Financing, and Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open AccessRole of institutional quality in the public education financing–educational quality nexus: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Open AccessEffect of public education financing on educational quality in sub-Saharan africa: an autoregressive distributed lag approach
Open AccessDo Women Require Specialized Digital Financial Instruments to Meet Their Needs? Insights from Ghana
Operational risk and non-life insurers’ performance
Equity return volatility in Africa’s stock markets: A dynamic panel approach
Open AccessEconomic activities’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries
Open AccessFinancial development and educational quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open AccessWhat accounts for the high underwriting losses in the Ghanaian insurance industry?
Using signalling theory to assess the Government of Ghana’s risk communication during the COVID-19 pandemic
Open AccessFinancial innovations and economic growth: Does financial inclusion play a mediating role?
Open AccessRelationship between financial inclusion, banking stability and economic growth: a dynamic panel approach
INVESTOR HERD BEHAVIOUR IN AFRICA’S EMERGING AND FRONTIER MARKETS
Open AccessDeterminants of working capital requirement in listed firms: Empirical evidence using a dynamic system GMM
Open AccessMarket Integration and Informational Efficiency of Africa's Stock Markets
Department of Accounting and Finance
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology