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AidData’s Chinese Official Finance in Three Ecologically Sensitive Areas, Level 1, Version 1.01

This is the 1.0.1 version of the Level 1 product, of a sub-nationally georeferenced dataset of Chinese official finance activities between 2000 and 2014 in three ecologically sensitive regions -- the Tropical Andes in South America, the Great Lakes of Africa, and the Mekong Delta in Southeast Asia.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Aid and development
  • Banking and financial services
  • Chinese aid
  • Infrastructure
Language
  • English
Dataset reference date January 30, 2017
Temporal extent's start date January 31, 2017
Temporal extent's end date January 31, 2017
GeoNames
  • Cambodia
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand
  • Viet Nam
West bounding coordinates 92.8983459472656
East bounding coordinates 108.805046081543
South bounding coordinates 6.83332967758179
North bounding coordinates 26.0
Spatial Reference System WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) (CRS:84)
Positional Accuracy Please refer to the README file for cavets on accuracy.
Logical Consistency There are no known issues with logical consistency.
Completeness Please refer to the Cavets section of the README file attached in the resources.
Process Step See documentation regarding AidData's Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF) methodology provided in the resources folder of this dataset. ODM extracted only the relevant projects for the 5 Lower Mekong Countries, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar.
Lineage BenYishay, Ariel, Bradley Parks, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler. 2016. Forest Cover Impacts of Chinese Development Projects in Ecologically Sensitive Areas. AidData Working Paper #32. Williamsburg, VA: AidData. http://aiddata.org/blog/aiddata-publishes-geocoded-dataset-on-chinese-financing-in-ecological-hotspots
Responsible party AidData: Contact data@aiddata.org
Metadata creator information Please refer to full and complete metadata documentation provided in the resources attached to this record.
License ODC-BY-1.0
Copyright No
Version 1.0.1
Date uploaded January 31, 2017, 11:14 (UTC)
Date modified October 15, 2019, 15:55 (UTC)