Nigeria is one of 14 landlocked countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The continent will have two billion people before the middle of the century, he says. "I worry very much about places like Chad, Niger and Central African Republic"
Tyler Cowen and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the resource curse, why Russia failed and Poland succeeded, charter cities, Sach's China optimism, JFK, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, whether Africa will be able to overcome the middle income trap, Paul Krugman, Sach's favorite novel, premature deindustrialization, and how to reform graduate economics education.
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