Tade Okediji

Tade Okediji
Professor
[email protected]
+1 612 624 8957
337C Ruttan Hall
http://aaas.umn.edu/
Education

Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1996

Areas of Interest

Economic Development and Growth, Institutions and Economic Performance.

Tade has a joint appointment in the Department of African American and African Studies.

Teaching

APEC 1101 Principles of Microeconomics

APEC 3061 Economic Development in Contemporary Africa

Research

His research focuses on comparative institutional economic development with specific emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. 

Current research projects examine effects of multiple dimensions of social fragmentation on economic performance in developing countries, with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa. Other research areas include economic development theory, political economy of ethnicity, and economics of governance. 

Publications