They spent dozens of millions of dollars on PR to make themselves the "Singapore of Africa".
I've documented this on HN previously [0][1].
Most notably, 20-25% of Rwanda's GDP remains Aid driven unlike their closest peer Uganda who now has 15% of GDP derived from ICT and an additional 10% from Finance. Yet Uganda doesn't beat their drum despite also being a personalist dictatorship. Museveni is a dick (and I went to school with some opposition members of his), but I will hand it to his administration - they concentrate on administrative capacity to a certain extent.
> Nigeria's notoriously kleptocratic bureaucratic system
They are not the most efficient, but the Nigerian Civil Service has drastically reformed over the past 15 years. Daniel "Dan" Roggers has been instrumental in this change [2], specifically by revamping the Nigerian Civil Service in the early 2010s as part of a World Bank bailout (he's now helping Lithuania and other Baltic States).
They spent dozens of millions of dollars on PR to make themselves the "Singapore of Africa".
I've documented this on HN previously [0][1].
Most notably, 20-25% of Rwanda's GDP remains Aid driven unlike their closest peer Uganda who now has 15% of GDP derived from ICT and an additional 10% from Finance. Yet Uganda doesn't beat their drum despite also being a personalist dictatorship. Museveni is a dick (and I went to school with some opposition members of his), but I will hand it to his administration - they concentrate on administrative capacity to a certain extent.
> Nigeria's notoriously kleptocratic bureaucratic system
They are not the most efficient, but the Nigerian Civil Service has drastically reformed over the past 15 years. Daniel "Dan" Roggers has been instrumental in this change [2], specifically by revamping the Nigerian Civil Service in the early 2010s as part of a World Bank bailout (he's now helping Lithuania and other Baltic States).
[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38147110
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847829
[2] - https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/d/daniel-oliver-ro...