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Nkechi S. Owoo (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Ghana. Currently on Sabbatical, she is based at the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) in Washington DC. Among other affiliations, she is a Research Fellow at local and international organisations such as the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) in Nairobi, Kenya; Population Institute in Washington DC; as well as the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) and the Environment for Development (EfD) institute, both in Accra, Ghana. She has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at Cornell University and the University of Michigan, both in the US, as well as the University of Pretoria in South Africa and the University of Bristol in the UK. She currently represents the Africa region on the Governing Board of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) based in France and is an Invited Researcher with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL). Prof Owoo has been featured as part of the International Economic Association’s (IEA) Featured Economist series, as well as JPAL’s African Scholar Spotlight blog series. She has also been a resource person for the World Bank, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), as well as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Her research focuses on spatial econometrics, health and…