PMabwa/Africa-Policy-Analysis

Essential Services, Economic Growth and Political Feasibility across the African Continent # 🌍 Africa Policy Analytics ## 📊 Overview This notebook implements a comprehensive data science pipeline for analyzing African development indicators, predicting economic growth, simulating policy impacts, and generating evidence-based policy recommendations. ## 🎯 Features - **Data Acquisition**: Automatically fetches data from World Bank API (34 indicators × 54 countries × 25 years) - **Machine Learning**: Trains multiple models (Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM) to predict GDP growth - **Policy Simulation**: Tests 4 policy scenarios across 7 key African countries - **Gap Analysis**: Identifies priority countries based on SDG-inspired targets - **Interactive Visualizations**: Creates Plotly dashboards for exploration - **Automated Reporting**: Generates country-specific and regional policy briefs ## 📁 Repository Structure git remote add origin github.com exit cat > README.md << 'EOF' # 🌍 Africa Policy Analytics ## 📊 Overview This notebook implements a comprehensive data science pipeline for analyzing African development indicators, predicting economic growth, simulating policy impacts, and generating evidence-based policy recommendations. ## 🎯 Features - **Data Acquisition**: Automatically fetches data from World Bank API (34 indicators × 54 countries × 25 years) - **Machine Learning**: Trains multiple models (Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM) to predict GDP growth - **Policy Simulation**: Tests 4 policy scenarios across 7 key African countries - **Gap Analysis**: Identifies priority countries based on SDG-inspired targets - **Interactive Visualizations**: Creates Plotly dashboards for exploration - **Automated Reporting**: Generates country-specific and regional policy briefs ## 📁 Repository Structure