As it approaches its 75th anniversary that’s the question I put to Shanta Devarajan, the Bank’s Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa in our latest 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.
