Economic Growth

The long-anticipated rebasing of Nigeria’s GDP series was finally made public on Sunday April 6, and the general media reaction has been cautiously celebratory. But the reaction has largely missed one big point: the rebasing establishes that the biggest economy in Africa has the lowest tax rev...

While I was plowing through Morten Jerven’s enlightening book Poor Numbers last year, my mind concentrated on Nigeria.  It stayed with Nigeria.  At that time, I was consumed with figuring out what on earth was going on with Nigeria’s poverty figures.  How was it ...

Over the past week World Bank president Jim Kim’s mind seems to have been on water and development.  But what does he mean by “water” and how does this relate to the huge water-related development challenges faced by the World Bank’s borrowers?

Developing countries are not the only ones that are “capacity” and “governance” challenged when it comes to doing major infrastructure projects.