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)