Thesis Coding

I think I'm about 1/3 through the project coding. It's going slowly.

Azerbaijan Done (Well Mostly)

These 59 projects took me about 3 hours total. Which isn't so bad. However I still have to code all the GDP/GNI/PCI/etc data from the years of completion. However the more tedious coding from the World Bank site is done for Azerbaijan; leaving me the other 5 countries to do and another couple hundred projects. Here's what my data is looking like:



I'm going to go work on book two of Gulag Archipelago now. Mind break time.

Project Coding Begins

Since I finished the rough stats yesterday, I decided to dig into project coding this morning. So much information, but I needed to start it so I could rewrite my project coding guide. Here's a quick look:

Data Data Data

So, I've started my base statistics for this project. Basically since I need a ton of data at my fingertips to complete my methodology of measuring various economic and social aspects at different points in time I've compiled a table of just that. Here's a preview!

Central Asia Class

In more graduate school news, I ended up with an "A" on my presentation. I've been neglegent about the news now so I must get back onto looking through all of it. I am starting the coding for the data this weekend, and with a few hundred projects I'm hoping to be able to finish it this month if I'm dilligent.

Tonight's Presentation

Giving my paper presentation tonight for my Central Asia class. Hopefully my data sets will be done soon!

Link to Presentation

Paper Outline

Since I have the pleasure of working on the data sets for the class I'm taking, here's the outline for the term paper that's a piece of this:

Rachel Stoll
Dr. Buckley
February 23, 2010

Central Asia and the World Bank in a Post-Cold War World: Trends in World Bank Funding of Transportation Infrastructure within Central Asia

I. Central Asia and the World Bank
a. 600 projects with CIS
b. CIS includes Central Asia
c. After collapse of USSR, IMF/WB take interest in CIS region
d. Discussion of previous development of transportation infrastructure
e. Rail usage in USSR
f. Types of projects being funded

II. Literature Review for Transportation impacts to Economic Development
a. Phillippe Aghion and Mark Schankerman
b. Feinburg and Meurs
c. Rietveld and Bruinsma

III. Functionalism discussion as it relates to security and development

IV. World Bank and Transit Infrastructure
a. Funding discussion
b. Private vs. Public
c. Movement of goods/services highly important

V. Dataset

VI. Dataset analysis

VII. Conclusion of data and paradigm (functionalism)