Eduardo A. Malásquez is a Senior Economist at the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. His research interests focus on applied microeconomics, in particular in the fields of economic development and empirical industrial organization. He currently leads the poverty programs in Cabo Verde and Guinea-Bissau, in the Western and Central Africa region.
Since joining the World Bank in 2015, he has worked in the analysis of the distributional impacts of development policies in Latin America, South Asia, the Middle East and, currently, in Western and Central Africa. Prior to joining the World Bank, Eduardo worked in Peru in the telecommunications regulator, the competition authority, in economic consulting and as a Lecturer at Universidad del Pacífico.
Eduardo holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as a M.A. and a B.A. from Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Perú.