Geocoded Global China Data

AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0

Summary

This dataset provides geospatial features representing the locations of project activities for a subset of the 3.0 version of AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance (GCDF) dataset.

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The GitHub repository for AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset (GeoGCDF) provides geospatial features defining the location of Chinese financed projects, and expands the type of analysis which can be conducted using the tabular, project level data from AidData's Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset (GCDF), Version 3.0.

This repository allows you to:

Download the complete GeoGCDF dataset, including ready-to-use geospatial features.
Explore examples, guidelines, other material related to using the GeoGCDF and geospatial features.
Access the code used to extract and process geospatial features from OSM in order to replicate the GeoGCDF or create your own dataset.

For more information, see the ReadMe.

Official Citation

Goodman, S., Zhang, S., Malik, A.A., Parks, B.C., Hall, J. (2024). AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset. Scientific Data 11, 529. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03341-w

Date Published

June 11, 2024

Full Description

The 1.0 version of this dataset won the prestigious “Best New Dataset Award” from the International Political Economy Society (IPES) in 2023.

AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0 provides geospatial features representing the locations of project activities for 13,908 projects from the 3.0 version of AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance (GCDF) dataset. Geospatial features included in the 3.0 version of AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset cover 148 countries and represent activities worth over $830 billion (in constant 2021 USD). The features are based on data from OpenStreetMap and include 8,797 spatial definitions of buildings, roads, and other precise features, as well as 5,111 locations of approximate or administrative level locations. For more information, see the ReadMe.

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