Francesco Schettino – författare

Compared to the 1980s and '90s, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has experienced a resurgence of economic growth, though this growth hasn't led to structural transformation. Additionally, SSA has underperformed in translating growth into positive development outcomes like poverty reduction. These patterns challenge standard growth theory, which predicts that growth at the top of the distribution will trickle down and benefit everyone. In We Are the World, the authors enrich and update research conducted over the last ten years, adding new evidence to recast the socio-economic narrative and pave the way for a candid and non-ideological debate on how to help SSA get on track. Challenging a widespread mainstream interpretation, the authors illuminate the nature, evolution, and consequences of SSA losing ground in the development race, offering a bold reform agenda to promote inclusive growth and sustainable development across the continent.

Compared to the 1980s and '90s, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has experienced a resurgence of economic growth, though this growth hasn't led to structural transformation. Additionally, SSA has underperformed in translating growth into positive development outcomes like poverty reduction. These patterns challenge standard growth theory, which predicts that growth at the top of the distribution will trickle down and benefit everyone. In We Are the World, the authors enrich and update research conducted over the last ten years, adding new evidence to recast the socio-economic narrative and pave the way for a candid and non-ideological debate on how to help SSA get on track. Challenging a widespread mainstream interpretation, the authors illuminate the nature, evolution, and consequences of SSA losing ground in the development race, offering a bold reform agenda to promote inclusive growth and sustainable development across the continent.

In Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty, Schettino and Clementi provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the economic breakdown that has characterised the last two decades of capitalist development – from the Lehman collapse to the Covid-19 pandemic – with a particular focus on the impact on poverty and inequality. The book provides a materialist account of the current global crisis of overproduction and looks at the link between capitalist crisis and systemic inequity, making the case through detailed quantification that the principal engine of these structural phenomena is in fact the general law of accumulation of the capitalist mode of production.