Jacinta Nwachukwu - Academic Staff

Jacinta teaches on Financial Management and Portfolio Investment modules. Her research interest is primarily on how access to financial services and the adoption of Agri-tech approaches might contribute to those sustainable development goals associated with human development and gender equality. Jacinta’s scholarship has resulted in grants from internal and external research funding bodies including the British Academy. She has published widely in high ranking journals. Jacinta also supervises postgraduate projects on finance and accounting topics.

Jacinta is the Deputy Head of School for Research. She also leads on the module on Strategic Financial Management. Jacinta acts as a mentor to a number of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and junior colleagues within the school.

Prior to becoming an academic, Jacinta acted as a research assistant on a number of consultancy missions to Africa and South Asia under the auspices of the United Nations and European Commission. The experience from these assignments motivated Jacinta’s research background and interest in the areas of Development Finance and Social Enterprise . Most specifically, she is interested in research in the areas of microfinance, micro, small and medium scale enterprise (MSME) development, economic growth, human welfare, poverty alleviation, debt relief, international capital flows, exchange rates, structural adjustment, financial sector development and women empowerment. To formulate sustainable policies for dealing with these economic development concerns, Jacinta’s work explores the interaction with and effectiveness of political and institutional arrangements, company ownership structure, market efficiency, corporate governance and information communication technology. Jacinta has published extensively alone and with co-authors in various international peer reviewed journals including: International Review of Financial Analysis; The Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation; Social Indicators Research; Technovation; World Development; Technological Forecasting and Social Change; Information Technology & People and Empirical Economics.

Jacinta is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of African Business and the journal of Risk and Financial Management
She regularly reviews articles and books for a number of journals including Journal of International Development, Routledge, World Development, Journal of Developing Areas, Journal of Economics and International Finance and Oxford Development Studies.
Jacinta is also a member of the following professional bodies:
The Royal African Society
The African Diaspora Academic Network-United Kingdom (ADAN-UK)
British Accounting and Finance Association's (BAFA) Special Interests Group in Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies (AFEE).
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA); 2014

Jacinta’s research interest cuts across Development Economics, Financial Markets, Accounting, Corporate Governance and Technological innovation. Her primary research interest focuses on those SDGs associated with poverty alleviation, food security, economic growth, inclusive finance engagement and access to education and women empowerment. Jacinta’s secondary research interest involves corporate finance and governance, market efficiency, quality of financial statement reporting, Agri-tech methods as part of precision livestock farming (PLF) approaches. Jacinta has supervised a number of PhD students to completion, focusing on topics on finance and development. She welcomes application from prospective PhD students with interests in both her primary and secondary research interests. In particular, PhD proposals focusing on panel data industry sector /cross country analyses rather than single company/country studies are encouraged.

Selected publications

Asongu, S. A., & Nwachukwu, J. C. (2016), “The role of governance in mobile phones for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Technovation, 55, 1-13
Asongu, S. A., & Nwachukwu, J. C. (2016), “The mobile phone in the diffusion of knowledge for institutional quality in sub-Saharan Africa”, World Development, 86, 133-147
Asongu, S. A., & Nwachukwu, J. C. (2017), “The impact of terrorism on governance in African countries” World Development, 99, 253-270
Asongu, S. A., & Nwachukwu, J. C. (2018), “Openness, ICT and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa”, Information Technology & People, 31(1), 278-303
Asongu, S. A., & Nwachukwu, J. C. (2018), “Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 129, 164-172

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Jacinta has attended and presented her papers at a number of conferences in the UK and overseas. Most notable:
Nwachukwu J.C (2007), “Foreign Capital Inflows and Real Exchange Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa” at the 4th AFE-QASS Conference, INEAG, Samos, Greece, 2007.
Nwachukwu J.C (2011), “Interest Rates, Market Orientation and the Profitability of Microfinance Institutions in Developing Countries” at the British Accounting and Finance Association Northern Group Area Conference at the University of Salford

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Professor Jacinta Nwachukwu

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