MEDIA: PRESS
Voice of America Interviews Yaw Nyarko on West African Currency
January 2020
Voice of America Interviews Yaw Nyarko on how Brexit will Affect Africa
October 2019
Workshop Held On “Markets For Agricultural Output In Rural Sub-Saharan Africa”
August 2019
Digital Guide Network
3News
X Live Africa
Modern Ghana
Ghana News Agency
Peace FM Online
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Ghana TV Features Yaw Nyarko’s Commodities Research in Ghana and the UAE
September 2018
Uploaded by Prof. Yaw Nyarko on 2018-11-12.
Ghana Commodities Exchange (GCX) Launches Warehouse Receipt System
November 8, 2017
Ghana News Agency
Daily Graphic
Migration research featured in The National article “UAE labour mobility reforms create winners and losers”
August 20, 2016
Migration research featured in The Economist article “Migrant workers in the UAE: Wages of chagrin”
April 9, 2016
The Economist
Financial Access Initiative (FAI) and Micro Save interview with Yaw Nyarko on the book “Portfolios of the Poor” and its influence on development research
2012
In this video, Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics at New York University and Director of NYU Africa House, talks about the particulars of the research for 'Portfolios of the Poor' and how the book will influence the development of new research trends.
Audio: BBC interview on the Millennium Development Goals
September 20, 2010
William Easterly and Yaw Nyarko on winning the 2009 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge in Development Cooperation Award
DRI received the international award for its work helping to ensure that the economic aid rich countries provide to the developing world is better utilized, and for questioning mainstream assumptions in development cooperation, like the idea that more generosity on the part of rich donor countries will have an automatic pay-off in poor country development.