Peter Quartey is a Ghanaian economist. He is a professor of development economics and has been director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research of the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in the country. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the British colony of the Gold Coast ...

since August 2019.

Early life and education

Peter Quartey was born in

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. He attended Wesley Grammar School and

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. Quartey received a

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and

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from the

in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Under an ODA Scholarship in 1996, Quartey moved to the

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to obtain a master's degree in Quantitative Development Economics. From 1998 to 2002, Quartey was enrolled at the

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for his doctorate degree in Development Economics.

Career

In 2003, he returned to Ghana and joined the Institute of Economic Affairs and later the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana in 2004 as a research fellow. He was promoted to senior research fellow in 2008, to associate professor in May 2011 and professor in January 2016. Peter Quartey is currently a professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), the head of the Department of Economics and director of the Economic Policy Management Programme of the University of Ghana.

Research

His research interests include private sector development, development finance, monetary economics, migration and remittances, and poverty analysis.

References

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