Economic Research
Vision
“To be the leading applied economic and business research division in the African Continent.”
Mission
Through delivering real time data and projections to facilitate current and forward planning for public and private sector.
Aims and objectives
- To develop and maintain a data lake of structured, semi-structured and unstructured economic and business data
- To prepare annual macro-economic projections
- To estimate and project retail trade sales
- To undertake corpographic research
- To estimate and forecast the size of the formal & informal business sector
- To conduct institutional performance assessments, monitoring and evaluation, as well as
- To perform cost benefit analysis, financial and computable general equilibrium modeling
Research niche areas
The divisional niche research areas entail: Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Governance Research.

