
Ayodele Odusola
Resident Representative and
Director, Africa Finance Sector Hub
United Nations Development Programme
Pretoria, South Africa
MEDIA
Recent Publications
Affordable Connectivity and Digital Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem for Rural Africa

Innovative Financing for Development: A New Model for Development Finance?

Strategies for Revitalizing The Nigerian Economy: The Role Of The Informal Sector

Conclusions and Policy Recommendations

Drivers of Income Inequality in Burkina Faso, Ghana and the United Republic of Tanzania: A comparative analysis

Understanding Policy and Institutional Innovations to Harness Knowledge For The Realization Of The MDGs in Africa

Assessing Development Strategies to Achieve the MDGs in The Republic of South Africa

Economics of Exchange Rate Management

Climate Change and Economic Growth in Africa: An Econometric Analysis

Poverty and the Dynamics of Women's Participation in Household Decision-Making in Nigeria

The Nexus Between Global Competitiveness And Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020

The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy Management in Nigeria

Addressing the Foreign Direct Investment Paradox in Africa

Savings, Investment and Growth Patterns in Developed and Developing countries

Income Inequality and Population Growth in Africa

Inequalities and Conflict in Africa: An empirical investigation

The Nigerian Oil Industry: Environmental Diseconomies, Management Strategies and the Need for Community Involvement

Productivity and Unemployment In Nigeria

Fiscal Space, Poverty and Inequality in Africa

Land Grab In Africa: A Review Of Emerging Issues And Implications For Policy Options

Effects of Temperature and Rainfall Shocks on Economic Growth in Africa

Re-awakening and Shaping Africa's Future in a Globalised World

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa in the Context of Complex global Development Cooperation

Economic Development Management in Nigeria: Dynamics, Dialectics and Outcomes

Fiscal Policy, Redistribution and Inequality in Africa

Agriculture, Rural Poverty and Income Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa

Tax Policy Reforms in Nigeria

Poverty and Fertility Dynamics In Nigeria: A Micro Evidence

Africa’s Structural Transformation: From Strategy to Action

Assessing the Impact of Nigeria's Naira Depreciation on Output and Inflation

Africa's Structural Transformation: From Strategy to Action

Cordinated Publications
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Building the integrated inequality database and the seven sins of inequality measurement in Sub-Saharan Africa
Biography
Ayodele Odusola is the Resident Representative for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in South Africa.
Prior, he was Chief Economist and Head of the Strategy and Analysis Team for UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA). He provides strategic leadership on development strategy, policy analysis and knowledge products on Africa. Further, he coordinates the preparation of regional flagship reports for RBA, including the Africa Human Development Report, the African Economic Outlook, Africa MDG/SDGs reports and the book Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences (which he co-edited) as well as strategic policy notes and occasional policy papers. Dr. Odusola provides intellectual leadership to SDG acceleration frameworks in sub-Saharan Africa, managing the network of Senior Economists in UNDP Africa Country Offices and providing strategic advice on policy matters to the RBA Director. He provides technical leadership on Roundtables to mobilize partnership and finance for the implementation of national development plans and visions across African countries. He is deeply involved in advising African countries development planning and visioning, structural economic transformation and the future of Africa’s development.
He led UNDP’s strategic partnership with pan African organizations like the African Union, the Pan African Parliament, NEPAD, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and the African Development Bank. Since 2014, he has been leading the technical engagement with the Tokyo International Conference on Africa’s Development and the International Conference of Africa’s Emergence. Dr Odusola also coordinates technical partnership with OECD on development issues in Africa.
He is the Chair of the UNDP Corporate Technical Team on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs). He coordinated from UNDP’s side the support to the 2011 Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA), the organization of the 2014 Ministerial Meeting on LDCs in Cotonou and the organization of the 2016 Midterm Review conference of the IPoA in Antalya as well as coordinating UNDP’s support to LDC graduation process. He led the UN mission on the Angolan Graduation. Further, he has supported many African governments on the preparation of national development plans, strategies and visions.
As an economist, Dr. Odusola focuses on dynamics of macroeconomics and development economics pertaining to the African continent. Prior to Chief Economist, he served as the RBA MDGs Adviser for Sub-Saharan Africa, after his tenure as Economic Adviser in UNDP South Africa, where he played a key role in developing partnerships on the MDGs. Before his time in South Africa, he was a Senior Economist in UNDP Nigeria, supporting the preparation of fiscal responsibility legislation at national and state levels; coordinated fiscal policy project and expansion of tax database; local, regional and national MDGs; and human development reports as well as other knowledge products. His work has taken him all regions in Africa and all continents of the world.
Prior to joining the United Nations, Dr. Odusola worked with the Presidency of Nigeria (1993-2005); and from 1999 to 2005, he served as the Director of the Research and Macroeconomic Training Programme under the President’s Economic Management Think-Tank. He has worked in several African countries. Served as Senior Consultant on fiscal policy management to several organizations like the World Bank, the West African Institute of Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM), and the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI).
Academically, Dr. Odusola has lectured several universities in Africa and has published over 50 articles in national and international journals, editing and authoring books as well as technical reports. In 2001, he was the African Visiting Scholar to the International Monetary Fund and has lectured in several universities.
His research is currently in the top 10% of Authors on Social Science Research Network by total new downloads. His article on Fiscal Space, Poverty and Inequality in Africa, published in African Development Review, is one of the journal's top downloaded recent papers
Mr. Odusola is a Nigerian national and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
