Fellowships and Comepetitive Research Grants Won
• Fellowship of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) - (for Masters Degree in Health Economics)
• National Research Foundation of South Africa Post Doctoral Research Grant (for Post Doctoral Research under Prof Diane McIntyre, University of Cape Town, 2009)
Competitive Research Grants Won:
• African Economics Research Consortium (AERC) research grant on “Pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Nigeria – Analysis of the impact of region, demography and employment” (2010-2011) (with Chukwuma Agu and John Ataguba)
• Community Based Poverty Monitoring System in Nigeria: A Community Participatory Approach (with I.A. Achike) – 2009 on-going
• Post Doctoral Research Fellowship of the National Research Foundation (South Africa): Research Topic: Relationship between Health and Wealth of Nations
• WHO Post Doctoral Research: Topic:Demand and Supply Barriers, and
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Access to Effective Malaria Interventions in Sub-Sahara Africa - A Nigerian Case Study of Artemisinin-Based Combination Treatments (ACTs) –Reported Submitted
• WHO-AFRO Research Grant
Research Topic: Efficiency of Hospitals in South-Eastern Nigeria (200-2009)
• Team member: The Future of the Middle Class in Nigeria, (AIAE Research ) with Eric Eboh, Moses Oduh, Emmanuel Nwosu, Joseph Okeibuno, Onyukwu-Onyukwu, Oliver Uja (Commissioned by Standard Bank of South Africa) (2011 –on-going)
• Team member: International Remittances, Poverty and Inequality: The West African Case, Center for Demographic and Allied Research (2010 on-going)
• Team Leader: Socioeconomic Impact of Mobile Telephone in Nigeria – Research by African Institute for Applied Economic for Nigerian telecommunication Commission (2006 – 2007)
• Team Leader: The nature and size of the Nigerian Informal Sector: research conducted by African Institute for Applied Economics: For USAID and National Planning Commission (2006)
• Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Network research grant University of Laval, Canada (With Nnaemeka Chukwuone) 2007 (on-going)
Research issue being investigated: Impact of migrants’ remittances on poverty in Nigeria.
• Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Network research grant (including a three-week study visit to the University of Laval, Canada) 2004
Research Topic: “The redistributive effects of healthcare financing in Nigeria”
• African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Research Grant (with W.M.Fonta, and E. Nwosu (2007)
• Research Topic: “Valuation of Community-Led Financing of Poverty Reduction in Rural Cameroon: A Contingent Valuation Study of Households in the Bambalang Region of Ndop”
