About
Siddiqur Osmani serves as Professor of Developmental Economics at Ulster University Business School within the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics. Based at the Belfast campus (Room BC-08-220), he is affiliated with the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and maintains an active research profile with 47 publications and an h-index of 19.
His research spans Developmental Economics, focusing on Bangladesh's economic structures, microcredit systems, and policy responses to crises like COVID-19. Key interests include income distribution, rural economies, human rights in globalization contexts, and urban inequality. His work directly contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals through analyses of poverty, justice, and economic freedom.
Recent publications reveal a strong emphasis on empirical studies of developing economies, particularly Bangladesh, with recurring themes of financial inclusion, pandemic policy impacts, and spatial inequality. His 2024 output demonstrates continued engagement with contemporary challenges in development economics.
Professor Osmani leads significant research projects including 'Capability and Freedom' (Leverhulme Trust, 2022-2025), 'Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh' (2016-2017), and 'Household Incomes in Rural India' (2009). These projects showcase sustained focus on poverty dynamics and policy evaluation in South Asia.
He contributes to academic discourse through editorial work, including peer review for Cambridge University Press (2021), and maintains active supervision of research students with one documented supervised work. His ORCID (0000-0003-3632-9150) tracks his scholarly output across economics and social policy domains.
