Marco Sanfilippo

Marco Sanfilippo is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", University of Torino, an Affiliate at the Collegio Carlo Alberto and a Programme Associate and Visiting Researcher with the Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute. His work tries to understand the drivers of private sector development in low-income countries using firm and individual-level data. On these topics, he regularly consults with national and international organisations, including so far UNIDO, UNU-Wider, UNCTAD, UNICEF the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the African Development Bank (AfDB), ILO, IMF and the World Bank.

Selected publications

• Mobile Internet, Skills, and Structural Transformation in Rwanda, Research Policy, 52(10), 104871, 2023 (with B. Caldarola, M.Grazzi, M.Occelli)
• Trade and Value Chain Participation: Domestic Firms and FDI Spillovers in Africa, The World Economy , 2023 (with B. Hoekman) [AERC special issue on Value
• Chain Development, Trade and Economic Transformation in Africa]
• Aid and Internal Migration in Malawi, World Development, 162: 106134, 2023 (with M. Lanati and F. Santi)
• Services, Jobs and Economic Development in Africa, The World Bank Research Observer, 38(1): 147–178 (with L. Baccini, B. Hoekman, M. Fiorini) [VoxEU][IGC Blog][Project Webpage]
• Roads and Jobs in Ethiopia, The World Bank Economic Review, 36(4):999-1020, 2022 (with M. Fiorini)
• Trade Liberalization, Employment and Gender in Ethiopia, Journal of Development Studies, 58(11): 2366-2392, 2022 (with G. Giovannetti and A. Vivoli)
• Trade Liberalization, Roads and Firm Productivity, Journal of Development Economics, 153: 1-18, 2021 (with M. Fiorini and A. Sundaram) [IGC blog] [IGC Policy Brief] [VoxDev][UNIDO IAP]
• Chinese Official Finance and Political Participation in Africa, European Economic Review, 136: 1-28, 2021 (with F. Iacoella, B. Martorano and L. Metzger) [write up in The Conversation UK] [coverage by Italian newspaper Domani]
• Markup Dispersion and Firm Entry: Evidence from Ethiopia, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 83(2): 299.327, 2021 (with K.A. Damoah and G. Giovannetti)