Introductions

I have been teaching since I obtained my PhD from University of California at Berkeley, in 1970. I have taught at UC Berkeley, Stanford University in California, University of Notre Dame (Indiana), University of Ghana and University of Helsinki.
I have also spend some time at the following Institutes as a researcher or as an instructor:

Institute of Developing Economies (Tokyo,Japan),
United Nations Institute of Development Planning (IDEP) in Dakar, Senegal) and
United Nations World Institute for Development Economic Research (UN-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION (Abridged)

TETTEH A. KOFI

A. Nationality Ghanaian

B. ACADEMIC HISTORY

William College, B.A., Political Economy
University of California, Berkeley, B.S. Industrial Engineering
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Economic Development

C. EMPLOYMENT RECORD

University of California, Berkeley: Lecturer, Dept. of Business Administration, 1970.
Stanford University, CA: Food Research Institute: Assistant Professor.
University of Notre Dame, IN: Associate Professor of Economics,
University of San Francisco, CA: Associate Professor
University of San Francisco, CA: Professor, 1984 to present.

PUBLICATIONS: Selected samples on Commodity Analysis

A. BOOKS

Tetteh A. Kofi, World Trade in Cocoa. Third World Forum Occasional Paper No. 10, Nyon, Switzerland, 1980

B. ARTICLES (Selected articles on Commodity Economics)

"Structural Adjustment in Africa: A Performance Review of World Bank Policies Under Uncertainty in Commodity Price Trends: The Case of Ghana". United Nations World Institute for Development World Economic Research (UN-WIDER) Research for Action Series. Helsinki, Finland,1994.
Book review, in Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XXXV, (December 1997), Adjustment and Poverty: Options and Choices by Francis Stewart, Routledge, London and New York.
"Commodity Exchanges and Their Impact on the Trade of Developing Countries", United Nations Conference on Trade and Development TD/B/C.1/248/ May 18, 1983. "International Commodity Agreements and Export Earnings: Simulation of the 1968 Draft International Cocoa Agreement", Food Research Institute, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1972, pp. 177-201.
"A Framework for Comparing the Efficiency of Futures Markets", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 55, No. 4, Part I, November 1983.
"International Cocoa Agreements", Journal of World Trade Law, Vol. 11, No. 1, January/February 1977. Also in John Simmons (ed.), Economics of Cocoa Production and Distribution, Praeger, 1976.
"Africa Report", Econometric World Forecasts, Newsweek (International edition), October 4, 1976.
"Africa Report", Econometric World Forecasts, Newsweek (International edition), September 26, 1977.
"Africa Report", Econometric World Forecasts, Newsweek (International edition), September 25, 1978.
"Africa Report", Econometric World Forecasts, Business Week, October 25, 1979.
"Africa Report", Econometric World Forecasts, Business Week, July 23, 1979, October 1980, October 1981, November 1, 1982.
Scope and Mechanism for Price and Market Stabilization (ICAS or Arrangements, Future Contracts, etc.). United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Monograph, Unpublished, 1989. In American Journal of Agricultural Economics, February 1990, Nikos Alexandratos (ed.) World Agriculture Towards 2000: An FAO Study. New York University Press, New York 1988.