Ibrahim Niankara, Ph.D

Professor

Abu Dhabi Campus

Education

B.S., Economics with Quantitative Studies option, Oklahoma State University, Magna Cum Laude, 2007
M.S., Economics with a Graduate Minor is Statistics, Oklahoma State University, 2009
Ph.D., Economics, Oklahoma State University, December 2011

Research Interests

Applied Econometrics, Applied Computational Statistical Modelling, Applied Micro-economics, International Economics.

Selected Publications

Niankara, I.; Hassan, H. I., Traoret, R. I., Islam, AbuReza M. I. (2025). Consumer Savings and Digital Remittance in Open Banking: Insights From Bibliometric and Geospatial Econometric Analysis, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 9352257, 36 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/hbe2/9352257
Niankara, I. (2024). Evaluating the influence of digital strategy on the interplay between quality certification and sales performance using data science and machine learning algorithms. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 10(3), 100354.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joitmc.2024.100354
Niankara, I., Zoungrana, D. T., & Traoret, R. I. (2024). COVID-19 Preventive Policy Preferences and Households Self-Reported Preventive Behaviors During the Pandemic: Evidence from Burkina Faso. In 2024 Global Digital Health Knowledge Exchange & Empowerment Conference (gDigiHealth. KEE) (pp. 1-13). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/gDigiHealth.KEE62309.2024.10761690
Niankara, I. (2023). Socioeconomic and geospatial determinants of households’ food and non-food consumption dynamics within the West African Economic and Monetary Union. Scientific African, 20, e01724. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01724
Niankara, I., & Traoret, R. I. (2023). The digital payment-financial inclusion nexus and payment system innovation within the global open economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 9(4), 100173. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joitmc.2023.100173
Niankara, I.; Zoungrana, D. T.; Traoret, R.I. (2023). “Health and Environmental Consciousness Effects of Wealth in Low Income Countries: Evidence from Households' Energy, Water, and Sanitation Services Consumption in Burkina Faso”. International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, 17 (3), 307-332. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEPEE.2021.10034925
Niankara I.; Ghaleb A. E.; Qasim. A. (2023). “A Spatial bivariate copula regression analysis of youths’ access to ICT resources and subjective well-being in the Middle East”. International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 26 (1), 43 - 83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEBR.2023.10042169
Niankara, I. (2023). "The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Digital Payment Solution Uptake Within the Gulf Cooperation Council Economies". International Journal of Innovation Studies. 7(1), 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijis.2022.09.004
Niankara, I. (2023). "The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Youth Ecological Behavior: A Global Cross-country Perspective on Environmental Citizenship and Ethics". International Journal of Global Warming. 29 (4), 318 - 349. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2023.10055274
Niankara, I. (2022). Sustainability through open data sharing and reuse in the Digital Economy. In 2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT) (pp. 1-11). IEEE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994191
Niankara, I. (2022), "Empirical Analysis of the Global Supply and Demand of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Random Utility Theory Perspective". Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 8(1), 26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/joitmc8010026
Niankara, I. (2022). “Education’s effect on Food and Monetary Security in Burkina Faso: A Joint Semi-parametric and Spatial Analysis”. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 14(6), 1690-1706. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2021.1982662
Niankara, I. (2020), “The impact of government and private sectors electronic transfer practices on financial inclusion in the economic community of the West African States”, International Journal of Finance and Economics, (pp.1-30). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2357
Niankara, I. (2020). The relative influence of inter-generational co-residence on healthcare market and labour market outcomes in post-Affordable Care Act USA. Global Business and Economics Review, 22(3), 213-248. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/GBER.2020.10027642
Niankara, I. (2019). Scientific media dieting and youth awareness and expectations about the environmental issues of deforestation and species extinction in the Middle East and North America. World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 15(3), 252-282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/WRSTSD.2019.102116
Niankara, I. (2019). Gender inequality in literacy status and its effects on households’ economic well-being in Burkina Faso: a semi-parametric bivariate sample selection modelling approach. International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 17(2), 218-242. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEBR.2019.097657
Niankara, I. (2018). Organisational management culture and employers' health insurance offering strategies in the USA: an Ubuntu-based random utility modelling approach. Global Business and Economics Review, 20(4), 503-520. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/GBER.2018.09276

Teaching Courses

Statistics for Business Decision-Making, Math for Business, Quantitative Business Analysis, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Statistics & Research Methodology, Production and Operations Management, Business Ethics, International Trade, Money and Banking, Intermediate Micro-economics and Managerial Economics.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

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Pooled cross-sectional panel of the 2015-2018 PISA student questionnaire data files for the evaluation of youth related strategies implemented under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable development

Published in: Data Article

Oct 04, 2020

ibrahim niankara

This data article is a follow up to the cross-national data on the environmental affection and cognition of adolescent students of varying levels of interest in ecosystem services and sustainability [1]. The data is being provided as a pooled cross-sectional panel of the 2015 [2] and 2018 [3] publicly released student questionnaire data files from the Programme for International Student assessment (PISA). The 2015 cross-section was used in the studies “Interest in the biosphere and students’ environmental awareness and optimism: A global perspective” [4] and “Scientific media dieting and students’ awareness and expectations about the environmental issues of deforestation and species extinction in the Middle East and North America: An integrated cross cultural ecologic-economic analysis” [5]. The present article presents key information and indicators on the world youth population before and after United Nations (UN) country members’ adoption of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in 2015. In doing so, it provides about a five year window of facts and figures, which can be used by researchers and policy makers to evaluate the effectiveness of early stage implementation of SDGs strategies in relation to youth education, access to information and communication technologies (ICT), and well-being worldwide. The presented data covers 409747 youth respondents distributed across 46 countries, 199511 of the respondents are from the 2015 cross-section, and the remaining 210236 from the 2018 cross-section. The data is further supplemented with spatial metadata containing the geographical coordinates of each of the covered 46 countries, which can be used for spatial Analysis and econometric modeling as illustrated in the present data article.

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Data for the Regional and Provincial Analyses of Households’ Economic Well-Being in Burkina Faso.

Published in: Data Article

Oct 04, 2020

Although household and business surveys generally collect regional codes, indicators are usually not tabulated by that dimension in international comparisons [13], as a result information on the extent of regional disparities or dispersion within countries is often unavailable [11]. This is why a call was made for collaboration between international organizations and G20 countries and partner countries to make regional data available, by advancing on methods to make microdata more accessible for progress [12]. The present data article inscribes itself within this context with the aim of bridging the above highlighted data gap. We achieve this by capitalizing on the 2014 Burkina Faso’s National Survey on Households Living Conditions, to provide regional and provincial levels aggregated households’ welfare indicators, along with socio-economic and demographic characteristics in Burkina Faso. The presented welfare extract, which covers 10411 households distributed across 45 provinces, and grouped into 13 administrative regions, is further supplemented with geospatial meta-data for analyses in the space dimension.

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Government and private sectors electronic transfer practices and financial inclusion in the economic community of the West African States

Published in: Interdisciplinary Working Papers

Oct 04, 2020

Ibrahim Niankara

Relying on a pooled-cross-sectional panel of the 2014 and 2017 Global Findex data, and a Random Utility Theoretic Model for revealed financial preferences data analysis, this paper examines the impact of government and private sector electronic transfer practices on financial inclusion, in terms of individuals’ ability to save and borrow within the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS). For sensitivity analysis, we adopt a sequential empirical strategy in which we estimate and contrast four specifications of the saving and borrowing processes. Overall, our findings are stable across all specifications and show that along with socio-economic factors such as age and income, public welfare transfers and employment based salary transfers foster financial inclusion by significantly raising individuals’ marginal propensity to save (MPS) (by 11.6% and 12.9% respectively) and marginal propensity to borrow (MPB) (by 12.6% and 8.2% respectively) within ECOWAS. We found however that within ECOWAS, both MPS and MPB have decreased by 21.4% and 7.2% respectively between 2014 and 2017. Therefore, in addition to other economic growth promoting fiscal tools in the government toolkit, mandates on public (government to citizens) and private (Business to citizens) electronic financial transfers are significant policy leverages for improving financial inclusion and growth within ECOWAS.

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