Economic Growth

For Anne-Marie Slaughter, architect of the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, what was most pleasing about the second one, released last week, was that there was a second one. ‘It’s hard to have a quadrennial review if it’s only one,’ she told me in...

Energy access is getting a lot of attention lately from the development community. The ONE Campaign has been pushing for aggressive action to fight energy poverty. President Obama launched Power Africa in June 2013 as his signature development initiative of the second term (and t...

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.