How effective are heuristic solutions for electricity planning in developing countries

Acknowledgement The first author would like to acknowledge the University of Aberdeen and the Henderson Economics Research Fund for funding his PhD studies in the period 2011-2014 which formed the basis for the research presented in this paper. The first author would also like to acknowledge the Macaulay Development Trust which funds his postdoctoral fellowship with The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland. The authors thank two anonymous referees for valuable comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. All usual caveats applyPeer reviewedPostprin

Socio-Political Instability and Foreign Direct Investments in Ghana: An ARDL Approach.

This paper aims to examine the impact of unstable socio-political periods, characterised by national elections, on foreign direct investments (FDIs) in Ghana. Since the inception of multiparty democracy in 1992, the country had undergone five national elections. These elections however are often characterised by heightened socio-political tensions among opposing parties and have resulted in civil unrest, mass arson, even deaths in the past. During this period the country had also implemented numerous policies to encourage FDIs. Has the unstable socio-political climate during electioneering periods impacted upon the inflow of FDIs in the country; and to what extent? This paper adopts the robust Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds cointegration approach as developed by Pesaran et al (2001) in its analysis. The results indicate that socio-political instability exerts a negative influence on FDIs in Ghana in the short- and long-run. In conclusion the paper recommends that in order to maintain its competitiveness as a FDI hub in the West Africa sub region and indeed the world, Ghana needs to work at limiting the often high tensioned national mood that is suggestive of a country teetering towards implosive violence and civil unrest during its national electioneering seasons. Keywords: Ghana, Foreign direct investments, socio-political instability, cointegration

Examining the Effect of the UK Oil and Gas Windfall Tax on the Economics of New Fields in the UKCS Province

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Evaluating the Impact of a 24-Hour Economy on Ghana’s Economic Landscape : A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

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An Assessment of the Economic Viability of the Controversial Cambo Field in the UKCS

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A Stochastic Anaerobic Digestion Economic Assessment Tool (SADEAT)

The author would like to acknowledge the Macaulay Development Trust which funded his postdoctoral fellowship with The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK in the period January 2015 to January 2018. The author would also like to thank the Centre for Energy Economics Research and Policy at the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh where he is currently based, and BP Plc which supports his current fellowship, for part funding this research.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The Politico-Economics of Electricity Planning in Developing Countries : A Case Study of Ghana

The first author would like to thank the University of Aberdeen and the Henderson Economics Research Fund for funding his PhD studies in the period 2011-2014 which formed the basis for the research presented in this paper.Peer reviewedPostprin