Academic Publications As At 2014
1. Emmanuel O. Nwosu, Anthony Orji, Nathaniel Urama, Joseph I. Amuka (2013) “Regional Integration and Foreign Investment: The Case of Asian Countries”, Asian Economic and Financial Review, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 1670-1680.
2. Urama, N. E., Oduh, M. O., Nwosu, E. O, and Odo A. C. (2013). “Price Rigidity and Monetary Non-Neutrality in Developing Countries: Evidence from Nigeria,” International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2013, pp.525-536
3. Oduh, M. O., Nwosu, E. O, and Urama N. E. (2012). “Macroeconomic Models and the Challenge of Growth in African Economies: The Context,” Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, Vol.3, No.10, 2012.
4. Oduh, M. O. and Urama N. E. (2012). “Does the End Use of Remittance Matter? A Macro Simulation of the Nigerian Economy,” Journal of Developing Country Studies, Vol 2, No.10, 2012.
5. Urama N. E, Ukwueze R. E., and Aneke G. C., (2012). “Minimizing the Negative Externality from Sachet Water Consumption in Nigeria,” European Journal of Business and Management, Vol 4, No.15, 2012.
6. Urama N. E., Nwosu E. O., and Aneke G. C., (2012). “Lost revenue Due to Trade Liberalization: Can Nigeria Recover her Own?” European Journal of Business and Management, Vol 4, No.10, 2012.
7. Urama N. E, and Oduh M. O., (2012). “Impact of Developments in Telecommunications on Poverty in Nigeria” Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development ISSN 2222-1700 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2855 (Online) Vol.3, No.6, 2012
8. Nwosu E. O., Urama N. E., and Uruakpu C., (2012). “Determinants of Antenatal Care Services Utilization in Nigeria,” Journal of Developing Country Studies, Vol 2, No.6, 2012.
9. Fonta M. W., Ichoku H. E., and Urama N. E, (2011). “Climate change and plantation agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis of farmland in Nigeria,’ Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, Vol.2, No.4, 2011.
10. Nzeh C, Eboh E., Nweze, Amakom U., Urama N, Ito D., Ujah O., Lemchi and Nwandu (2010). “The Economic Importance of Forest Products in Enugu State, Nigeria,” International Journal of Tropical Agriculture and Food Systems, 4(2): 122-131, 2. (www.tapasinstitute.org/journals/ijotafs)
11. Oduh M., Urama N., Eboh E., Agu C, and Nwosu E., (2009). “Designating and Operationalizing Macroeconomic forecast Model for Nigeria: Context and Prospects,” African Institute for Applied Economics working paper I. (www.aiaenigeria.org)
Practical Research Experience:
1) Member of a three man Research term on: “The Impact of Climate change on Poverty in Africa: a case study of Nigeria”. Ongoing research awarded by Climate Analytics GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
2) Lead Researcher in the project, “Remittances and labour force participation rate in Nigeria,” ongoing research awarded by African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).
3) Leader, African Development Solutions Institute (ADSI)’s research team on “Evaluating the Demands for Broadband in Nigeria” Being a contract research work for Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) (on-going).
4) Training on the application of DSGE models to macro modelling of the developing economies (University of Reading, and University of Surrey, 2013).
5) Member of African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE)’s research team on “Evaluating State Social Protection Programs in Nigeria” (2012).
6) Member of African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE)’s research team on “Assessment of Macroeconomic Models in Africa”, (2011).
7) Member of African Development Solutions Institute (ADSI)’s research team on a work done for Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) : “Assessment of the Impact of Developments in Telecommunications on the attainment of the Millennium development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria” 2010-2011
8) Member of Centre for Demographic and Allied Research (CDAR), Economics Department, University of Nigeria/ IDRC’s research team on “Economic Impact of Migrant Remittances in Nigeria, 2010 - 2011”.
9) Member of African Economics Research Consortium (AERC)’s research team on “Economic Impact of climate change on Plantation Agriculture in Nigeria: implication for enhanced productivity’, 2010-2011
10) Member of African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE)’s research team on “Designing and Operationalizing Macroeconomic Forecast Model for Nigeria, 2009- 2010”.
11) Worked as enumerator and data analyst for African institute for Applied Economics on the research they conducted for the Nigerian telecommunication Commission (NCC) on the “Socio-economic impact of mobile telecommunication in Nigeria”, 2007.
12) Worked as enumerator and data analyst in the National Bureau of Statistics and Central Bank of Nigeria collaborative survey on Private Farmers Statistics (crop and livestock) 2006.
13) Worked as enumerator and data analyst in the National Bureau of Statistic and Central Bank of Nigeria collaborative survey on Agricultural Export survey in Nigeria, 2006.
14) Worked as enumerator and data analyst in the National Bureau of Statistic and Central Bank of Nigeria collaborative survey on Mass Household Survey in Nigeria, 2006.
15) Worked as enumerator and data analyst in the National Bureau of Statistic and Central Bank of Nigeria collaborative survey on Core Welfare Indicator survey in Nigeria, 2006.
16) Conducting of focus group discussion for ATPS W&E Programme: Baseline Studies on Household Demand for Potable Water Supply in Africa: Economics, Ethics, Social Psychology, and Institutions.
Conferences and Training Workshops Attended:
1) African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Biannual Research Workshop, Arusha, Tanzania. May 30 - June, 4, 2015.
2) Research Workshop on Impact of Climate Change on Economies of African countries; Abidjan, 22nd -24th April, 2015. (Presentation of the Nigerian Case study)
3) Resource Person/Instructor: Executive Training Course on Macroeconomic Modelling and Sustainable Investment Management: A Quantum Global Research Lab (Switzerland) Training Course: Co-hosted by University of Abuja and Institute for Public Policy Analysis & Management (IPPAM), Abuja, Nigeria, 02– 26 March 2015.
4) NCC/ADSI workshop for the presentation of the Interim report on the project: “Evaluating the Demands for Broadband in Nigeria”, Aug, 2014.
5) African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Biannual Research Conference. June, 2014
6) Instructor, in NCC/ADSI training workshop on field work for their project entitled: “Evaluating the Demands for Broadband in Nigeria”, 2014.
7) Managing Survey Data from the Developing Country Surveys: University of Surrey, United Kingdom, June, 2013.
8) Application of DSGE models to macro modelling of the Developing economies: University of Surrey, United Kingdom, Jan-April, 2013, Tutor: Prof. Paul Levine.
9) Methods of Estimation of DSGE model parameters: University of Reading, UK, March, 2013.
10) Monetary Policy in developing countries: University of Reading, UK, March, 2013.
11) African Heritage Institution Dissemination Seminar on Evaluating State Social Protections in Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria, August, 2013.
12) African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Biannual Research Conference. Arusha, Tanzania, June, 2013.
13) African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE) Policy Seminars on Social Security Programme and Sovereign Wealth Fund , 27 February - 2 march, 2012
14) African Economic Research consortium (AERC) Biannual Research Conference. Nairobi, Kenya, Dec, 2011.
15) Centre for Demographic and Allied Research (CDAR)/IDRC, Worksop on Economic Impact of Migrant Remittances. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Sept., 2011.
16) Nigerian Telecommunication Commission (NCC) and African Development Solutions Institute (ADSI) workshop on Research findings. Abuja, Nigeria, Sept., 2011.
17) Providing training service (Instructor) for Digital Bridge Institute, Nigeria on Economics of Telecommunication. Aug. 08- Aug. 12, 2011.
18) 34th African Economic Research consortium (AERC) Biannual Research Conference. Nairobi, Kenya, May, 2011.
19) 33rd African Economic Research consortium (AERC) Biannual Research Conference. Mombasa, Kenya, Nov, 2010.
20) Sub-Regional Methodology Workshops for Social Research in Africa: 2010 session for Nigeria and other Anglophone West and Central African Countries held in UI. August, 2010.
21) 32nd African Economic Research consortium (AERC) Biannual Research Conference, Mombasa, Kenya. May, 2010.
22) Training Course on “Multivariate Technique in Economic and Social Analysis” Organized by African Institute for Applied Economics in collaboration with University of Laval, Canada. 26-31ST July, 2010.
23) Training Workshop for data collection and analysis on: Productivity and Investment climate survey in Nigeria, Abuja Nigeria. 29th Jan – 11th Feb 2008. By: EEC Canada/ AIAE Nigeria.
24) The International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) Tenth Biennial Conference entitled “ISEE 2008 Nairobi: Applying Ecological Economics for Social and Environmental Sustainability”. Organized in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the African Society for Ecological Economics (ASEE), 7-11 August 2008.
25) The third African regional Youth Congress on science and technology: Enhancing the Role of the Youths in Attaining the MDGs in Africa. Kampala Uganda. 3rd-5th July, 2007. By: AYFST/ATPS/CTA/UNCST/SCIENCES FOR PROSPERITY/LOG’EL PROJECT/UY
