Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Jonathan appears in Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) as Nigeria’s president when the [[YouWinProgram|YouWin Program]] was proposed. The source says he supported Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s idea for a national business-plan competition and told her to work out the implementation.

His role is mainly institutional. The episode uses the program’s later shutdown after a presidential change to show why Evidence-Based Development Policy also depends on political continuity, not only measured program effects.

Connections

• Nigeria - country context.
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - finance minister leading the program design.
• YouWin Program, Direct Entrepreneur Grants, and Missing Middle - policy branch connected to his support.