Idrissa Ouedraogo is a Ph.D. student in Governance and Regional Integration at the Pan African University Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences (African union), and the University of Yaounde II in Cameroon. He obtained a MSc in Governance and Regional Integration from the Pan African University and the University of Yaounde II. He also obtained a MSc in Applied Economics from the University of Yaounde II and another MSc in Economics and Financial Engineering from the University of Rennes 1 in France. His main field of research is development economics. His research interests include: Governance/Institutions, Human Development, Economics of Inequality, Globalization, and Regional Integration in Africa. His Ph.D. is entitled: “Governance and Human Capital in Africa”.
1. Governance and human capital in Africa
2.Mineral resources and human development in Burkina Faso
3.Effects of trade openness on income inequality in the West African economic and monetary union (WAEMU)
4.Effects of Political Rivalry on Education in Africa
5.Electoral Corruption in Central Africa and Entrenchment of Democratic Culture: A Case Study of Cameroon (with Kabanda Umar andForgwe Azwe Nina Therese)
1. Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences, Pan African
University-African Union, Cameroon 2016-2019
2. Master Fellowship, Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences, Pan African
University-African Union Commission, Cameroon, 2014-2016
3. National Scholarship, Government of Burkina Faso to study Economics, 2009-2012
4. Best Student, BSc in Macroeconomics and Development Economics, Department of Economics,
University of Ouaga II, Burkina Faso, 2010-2011.
5. Best student, Secondary school of Province of Zondoma, Burkina Faso, 2004-2005.
Coast, Cameroon and Burkina Faso, Center for Effective Action (CEGA) and the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences based at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, 2017-2018 (with Nochi Faha Dief Reagen and Tafadzwa Maramura).