Abena D. Oduro is an associate professor in the department of economics and is currently director of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) at the University of Ghana, Legon. Her current research interests are in the areas of unpaid household work, poverty, inequality and vulnerability analysis, gender responsive budgeting, and African regional integration. She is an associate editor of Feminist Economics and is a member of the International Association for Feminist Economics.