Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Edoardo is an agricultural and development economist with over ten years of experience in international development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He has extensive experience in designing and conducting impact evaluations of development interventions. He has excellent statistical and econometric research skills, and considerable experience in managing local economic development programs in Honduras and Mongolia.

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Academic Partnership in Support of Teaching Development Aid Curriculum in Russia
• Multi-Methods Research Course
• Income Distribution and Food Demand
• ALINe

Thematic Expertise

Agriculture; Poverty.

Geographic Expertise

Honduras; Mongolia.

Selected Publications »»

• Masset, E., Mulmi, R. and Sumner, A. (2011) 'Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the Welfare Impacts of Policy-oriented Research in Agriculture', IDS Working Paper 360, Brighton: IDS
• Cirera, X. and Masset, E. (2010) 'Income Distribution Trends and Future Food Demand' 365:2821-2834, Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B
• Masset, E. and White, H. (2004) 'Are Chronically Poor People being left out of Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals? A Quantitative Analysis of Older People, Disabled People and Orphans', Journal of Human Development 5.2:279-297
• White, H and Masset, E (2003) 'Constructing the poverty profile: an illustration of the importance of allowing for household size and composition in the case of Vietnam', Development and Change 34.1:105-126
• Baulch, B and Masset, E (2002) 'Do Monetary and Non-Monetary Indicators Tell the Same Story about Chronic Poverty? A Study of Vietnam in the 1990s', Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper 17, Manchester: CPRC