A video recording of the Session 5 on Day 2 of The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2025 "Development in the Age of Populism." This session discusses "Africa Growth and Opportunity".
CHAIR: Gero Carletto, Senior Manager in the Development Data Group at the World Bank
PANELISTS:
- Matteo Bugamelli, Executive Director, World Bank
- Andrew Dabalen, Chief Economist of the World Bank's Africa Region
- Amb. Robin Renee Sanders, CEO of FEEEDS & FE3DS and Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and the Republic of the Congo
- Johan Swinnen, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute
- Leonard Wantchekon, James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University