KonstiA/geospatial-development-projects

Geospatial analysis of the effects of development projects on institutional legitimacy in Africa (Afrobarometer & World Bank Project Data) # Geospatial Analysis of development projects in R Geospatial analysis of the effects of development projects on institutional legitimacy in Africa (Afrobarometer & World Bank Project Data) This repository contains R scripts used for the data analysis. It includes: - Data preprocessing - Statistical analysis (e.g., regressions, hypothesis testing) - Data visualization - Robustness checks ## How to Use 1. Request the dataset from the Afrobarometer website. 2. Clone the repository. 3. Install the required R packages: `foreign`, `readr`, `readxl`, `tidyverse`, `broom`, `stringr`, `dplyr`, `skimr`, `officer`, `flextable`, `sf`, `sjlabelled`, `ggplot2`, `fixest`, `texreg`, `rnaturalearth`, `rnaturalearthdata`, `countrycode`. 4. Insert the appropriate pathways for ‘…’ in lines 48, 74, 100, 127, 131, 135, 140, 142, 145, 677, and 679. 5. Run `geospatial-development-projects.Rmd` for the main results. ## Dataset - This study utilised two main sources: Afrobarometer Survey Data from rounds 4-6 (2008-2015), which includes approximately 74,000 respondents from 37 African countries, and AidData’s World Bank Geocoded Research Release (1995-2014), providing geo-coded data on project periods (AidData, 2017; BenYishay, 2017). A repeated cross-sectional dataset was created for this paper, focusing on 61,337 respondents from 28 African countries and 701 World Bank projects between 2008 and 2014. - The geospatial data used in this analysis cannot be shared here due to privacy concerns; however, it is available upon request on the official Afrobarometer website. ## Highlights - Modular, reusable code. - Example of geospatial regression modeling and data visualization in R. # Thematic project Description Foreign Aid and Institutional Quality in Africa: Evidence from Afrobarometer and World Bank Project Data A Geospatial Analysis of the Effects of World Bank Development Projects on Perceived Institutional Legitimacy. Abstract - This study analyses the impact of World Bank deve …