Research

My research examines how macroeconomic conditions, human capital, institutions and environmental pressures shape development outcomes in Somalia and sub-Saharan Africa. I am interested in questions that are analytically rigorous, empirically tractable and relevant to public decision-making.

A recurring concern across my work is the quality of transmission: how investment becomes productivity, how education becomes capability, how trade becomes structural transformation, and how policy commitments become institutional performance.

Methods. My work uses time-series and panel-data methods, including autoregressive distributed lag models, nonlinear specifications, causal-inference designs and research-synthesis techniques. Method choice follows the economic question and the structure of the data—not methodological fashion.