Mr. Friday Bassey Agala
DepartmentEconomics
DesignationGraduate Assistant
EmailAbout Mr. Friday Bassey Agala
.Mr. Friday Bassey Agala joined the services of the University of Calabar, Calabar in 2015 as a Graduate Assistant, having been retained by the university following his sterling academic performance in the Department of Economics that culminated in First Class (Hons.) degree in 2014. He was later upgraded to an Assistant Lecturer in 2017. Subsequently, Mr. Agala was awarded M.Sc. by the University of Ibadan, Ibadan in 2018. His areas of research interest are Environmental Sustainability, Public Policy, Resources Management, Behavioral Economics, Economic Theory, and Applied Econometrics. He has held positions of responsibility at the University of Calabar and has served as a member of, the Department of Economics Quality Assurance Committee (2019-2021), and he is currently the Staff Adviser of the National Economics Students Association (NESA), University of Calabar Branch. He is a member of the African Green Economy Society (AGES), the Corporate Institute for Strategic Research (CISR), and the Nigerian Economic Society.
| S/N | Qualification | School Atttended | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B.Sc. in Economics (First Class Hons) | University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria, | 2010 | 2014 delete_forever | |
| M.Sc. (Economics) | University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. | 2014 | 2018 delete_forever |
| S/N | Publication |
|---|---|
| Ndem, B. E., James, H. T., & Agala, F. B. (2022). Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Approach to Corruption and Economic Growth Nexus in Nigeria. Journal of Environmental Science and Economics, 1(3), 23-31. | |
| Effiom, L., & Agala, F. B. (2020). Infrastructure and Africa’s Development: The Imperatives of Alternative Funding Options. Financing Africa’s Development, 2: 101-133. | |
| Oburota, C. S., Eke, F. A., & Agala, F. B. (2019). Health and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria. African Journal of Sustainable Development, 9(2), 39-59. | |
| Agala, F. B., & Eke, F. A. (2019). Income Inequality, Environmental Degradation and Economic Development Nexus in Nigeria: Reassessing the Kuznets Hypothesis. International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 27(4), 1014-1023. | |
| Eke, F. A., & Agala, F. B. (2019). Technological Advancement and Economic Growth in Nigeria. African Journal of Applied and Theoretical Economics, 5(1), 124-145. |
warning No Result For Grants Received.
| S/N | Conference | Description | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 3rd Annual Summit of the South-South Economic Summit (SSES). | Oil Politics: Implications for the Economic Development of the South-South in a Post Covid-19 in Nigeria. | 2021-12-15 | 2021-12-17 |