The CGD Podcast

The seed of today’s podcast was planted back in April 2014. That’s when Nigeria made a statistical change to the way it calculates its GDP. Overnight, Nigeria’s GDP estimate shot up by 89%, making it the biggest economy in Africa.

In this CGD podcast, research fellow Justin Sandefur describes a unique project underway right now that asks thousands of ordinary Tanzanians how they think potential resource revenues should be used.

"The US," Ben says, "has been much slower to the game." Listen to Ben's ideas for modernizing US development finance and read the policy paper by Ben and co-author Todd Moss, "Bringing US Development Finance into the 21st Century: Proposal for a Self-Sustaining, Full-Service USDFC".

Kingsley Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, believes that Africa’s development potential lies in the hands of Africans themselves and that underdevelopment is due to the lack of a suitably ambitious worldview.