Donatella Saccone (Director)

After graduating in Political Sciences with economic specialization in 2004, Donatella Saccone obtained a II level Master’s Degree in Economics at CORIPE Piemonte in 2005 and a PhD in Economics at the University of Turin in 2008. She was then Research Fellow at the “Cognetti de Martiis” Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Turin, where she also held courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Development Cooperation, Cultural Industries and Global Markets for several years.
Since 2009 she has been collaborating as an external consultant with the International Training Center of the International Labor Organization (ILO), where she carries out teaching activities at the Master in Management of Development. More recently, she was also a consultant for UNCTAD in the field of global food markets and food security.
In 2014 she was co-founder of the Turin Center on Emerging Economies (OEET), a research and dissemination center affiliated to the Collegio Carlo Alberto, for which she is the Director and manages scientific research activities on emerging economies. From 2018 to 2022 she was the President of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems (AISSEC). Her fields of specialization are Development Economics, Food Economics and Cultural Economics.

Selected publications:

Journals

• Marson M., Saccone D., Vallino E. (2024), Does food import contribute to rising obesity in low- and middle-income countries? Kyklos, 1-40 (CLASS A–ANVUR list).
• Marson M., Saccone D. (2023), Fed with import and starved by war: Estimating the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on cereals trade and global hunger. International Economics
• Biggeri M., Bortolotti L., Saccone D., Tassinari M. (2023), Policy and political challenges for a better world: the United States and China pathways towards the 2030 Agenda. Ecological Economics, 209, 107821 (CLASS A–ANVUR list).
• Biggeri M., Bortolotti L., Ferrannini A., Saccone D. (2023), China’s subnational policies and the performance of provinces towards meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 10(1), 439-460 (CLASS A–ANVUR list).
• Marson M., Migheli M., Saccone D. (2023), Free to die: economic freedoms and influenza mortality. Economics and Human Biology, 49, 101238 (CLASS A–ANVUR list).
• Marson M., Saccone D., Vallino E. (2022), Total trade, cereals trade and undernourishment: new empirical evidence for developing countries. Review of World Economics (CLASS A–ANVUR list).
• Migheli M., Saccone D. (2022), Some new evidence on economic freedom and income distribution. Applied Economics (CLASS A–ANVUR list).
• Della Posta P., Marelli E., Saccone D., Signorelli M. (2022), Public Investment Multipliers by Functions of Government: An Empirical Analysis for European Countries. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 60, 531-545.
• Saccone D., Migheli M. (2022), Free to escape? Economic freedoms, growth and poverty traps. Review of Development Economics, 00, 1-37.
• Saccone D., Vallino E. (2022), Food security in the age of sustainable development: exploring the synergies between the SDGs. World Development, 152, 105815.
• Marson M., Migheli M., Saccone D. (2021), New evidence on the link between ethnic fractionalisation and economic freedom. Economics of Governance, 22, 257-292.
• Della Posta P., Oliveri F., Saccone D., Vallino E. (2021), Migrations, populism and the crisis of globalization: an introduction. Scienza e Pace, XII(1), pp. i-xiv.
• Marson, M., Saccone, D. & Vallino, E. (2022), Total trade, cereals trade and undernourishment: new empirical evidence for developing countries, Review of World Economics
• Saccone D. (2021), Can the Covid19 pandemic affect the achievement of the ‘Zero Hunger’ goal? Some preliminary reflections. European Journal of Health Economics, 22(7), 1025-1038.
• Candelise C., Saccone D., Vallino E. (2021), An empirical assessment of the effects of electricity access on food security. World Development, 141(C), 105390.
• Saccone D. (2021), Who gains from economic freedom? A panel analysis on decile income shares. Applied Economics Letters, 28(8), 646-649 (Published online: 28 May 2020).
• Saccone D., Deaglio M. (2019). Poverty, Emergence, Boom and Affluence: a New Classification of Economies. Economia Politica, DOI: 10.1007/s40888-019-00166-4
• Saccone D. (2017), Economic Growth in Emerging Economies: What, Who And Why, Applied Economics Letters, 24 (11), pp. 800-803.
• Valli V., Saccone D. (2015), Structural Change, Globalization and Economic Growth in China and India, The European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 133-163.
• Saccone D. (2013), Income Concentration in China: What Role for Education?, International Journal of Education Economics and Development, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 101-
  116.
• Saccone D. (2011), Book Review, Bardhan P.: Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India, Journal of Economics, Vol.102, Issue 3,
  pp. 287-289.
• Valli V., Saccone D. (2009), Structural Change and Economic Development in China and India, European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 101-129. Paper translated and published in Chinese in “Journal of Translation from Foreign Literatures of Economics”, 4 (2011), pp. 31-47.

Book chapters

Saccone D. (2012), Istruzione e Diseguaglianze, Cap. 3, in Valli V. e Balcet G. (eds.),
Potenze economiche emergenti: Cina e India a Confronto, Il Mulino, Bologna.

Working Papers

Vittorio V., Saccone D. (2014), Structural Change, Globalization and Economic Growth in China and India, Working Paper n° 32/2014, Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Turin.

Saccone D. (2008), Educational Inequality and Educational Poverty. The Chinese Case in
the Period 1975-2004, Working Paper n° 08/2008, Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Turin.

Other publications

Saccone D. (2013), Le due facce dell’India tra analfabetismo e nuovi laureati, “IndiaIndie”, Num. 3, Istituto Affari Internazionali e Torino World Affairs Institute.