Dr. Emmanuel Mensah
Assistant Professor
Publications
2026
Scholarly publications
Hamilton, C., & Mensah, E. (2026). Disparate Data, Disparate Results: Has the Sub-Saharan African Region Deindustrialized? The World Bank Economic Review, Article lhag029. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Hamilton, C., Mensah, E., & Sennoga, E. (2026). Services-led structural transformation in East Africa. Journal of African Economies, 35(4), Article ejag013. [DOI] [Repository]
Mensah, E., & de Vries, G. (2026). Harmonized Time-Series Supply and Use Tables for sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific data, 13(1), Article 1231. [DOI] [Repository]
Gollin, D., McMillan, M., Mensah, E., Ndubuisi, G., & Owusu, S. (2026). Taking Stock of Africa’s Economic Transformation: Rethinking Sources of Productivity Growth. World Bank Research Observer, Article lkag001. Advance online publication. [DOI]
de Vries, G., Kruse, H., Mensah, E., Vidogbena, Y., & Yi, K.-M. (2026). Structural change in sub-Saharan Africa: An open economy perspective. Journal of International Economics, 161, Article 104248. [DOI] [Repository]
2025
Scholarly publications
Ndubuisi, G., Mensah, E., Avenyo, E., & Sakyi, D. (2025). Global value chains and the innovativeness of firms in Africa. Technovation, 146, Article 103276. [DOI] [Repository]
2023
Scholarly publications
Mensah, E., & Van Biesebroeck, J. (2023). Integration of African countries in regional and global value chains: Static and dynamic patterns. The world economy, 46(11), 3259–3281. [DOI] [Repository]
Mensah, E., Owusu, S., & Foster-McGregor, N. (2023). Productive efficiency, structural change, and catch-up within Africa. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 65(June 2023), 78-100. [DOI] [Repository]
Mensah, E., Owusu, S., Foster-McGregor, N., & Szirmai, A. (2023). Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Labour Market Turbulence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of African Economies, 32(3), 175-208. [DOI]
Kruse, H., Mensah, E., Sen, K., & de Vries, G. (2023). A Manufacturing (Re)Naissance? Industrialization in the Developing World. IMF Economic Review, 71(2), 439–473. [DOI]
2022
Scholarly publications
Konte, M., Kouamé, W., & Mensah, E. (2022). Structural Reforms and Labor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra or Inter-Reallocation Channel? World Bank Economic Review, 36(3), 646-669. [DOI]