Week 05 · September 21–23
Trace finance through institutions.
Study how climate-finance definitions, accounting choices, governance conditions, and project readiness shape what the data measure and which comparisons the evidence can support.
This week
Accounting
- Distinguish commitments, disbursements, provided finance, and mobilized finance.
- Identify the boundary, year, currency basis, and unit behind each total.
- Avoid adding overlapping project, recipient, or sector allocations.
Governance
- Connect institutional quality to project risk, readiness, and implementation capacity.
- Treat governance indicators as multidimensional and uncertain measures.
- Separate positive allocation patterns from normative climate-justice questions.
Evidence
- Join finance and governance observations with explicit country-year keys.
- Visualize skewed country-level outcomes with defensible denominators.
- Describe association without making an unsupported causal claim.
Lecture slides
Classwork
Classwork 4: Governance and Climate Finance in the Developing World
Build a descriptive comparison that keeps the data scope, year, unit, join key, accounting boundary, and limits of the evidence visible.
By the end of Week 5
Prepare two figures and a short interpretation that:
- identifies the finance measure and accounting boundary;
- states the country-year unit and join key;
- explains the denominator or scale used in each figure;
- describes the observed governance–finance association; and
- names at least one competing explanation or measurement limitation.