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Project Title: Economic Growth Analysis for West African Countries

This project is an attempt to analyze the economic performance of West Africa (a sub-region of Africa made up of 16 countries) for the period 2006-2019. The countries captured in the project include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote D'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.

The data used for this experiment is derived from the World Bank's data bank (https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators). The dataset is a panel dataset which captures variables such as GDP, GDP per capita, Industrial value added, manufacturing value added, agricultural value added, agricultural exports, total exports of goods and services, foreign direct investment, inflation, oil rent receipts, natural resources rent receipts, unemployment, total population, etc. All financial/monetary values captured in the dataset are in constant 2010 US$ prices, making it easier for international comparison. More details of the the dataset would be revealed in the course of the project.

The plan is to apply the tools I have learned from the 'Data Analysis with Python: Zero to Pandas' (www.zerotopandas) to analyze relationships between key economic variables, look at trends of important indicators of economic performance (such as GDP and GDP per capita), and to compare performances of important economies (by economic and population sizes) in West Africa. In doing this, I will apply

Write some introduction about your project here: describe the dataset, where you got it from, what you're trying to do with it, and which tools & techniques you're using. You can also mention about the course, and what you've learned from it.

As a first step, let's upload our Jupyter notebook to Jovian.ml.

project_name = "Economic Growth Analysis for West African Countries"
!pip install jovian --upgrade -q
import jovian
jovian.commit(project='economic-growth-analysis-for-west-african-countries')
[jovian] Attempting to save notebook.. [jovian] Updating notebook "abdulrahim88/economic-growth-analysis-for-west-african-countries" on https://jovian.ml/ [jovian] Uploading notebook.. [jovian] Capturing environment.. [jovian] Committed successfully! https://jovian.ml/abdulrahim88/economic-growth-analysis-for-west-african-countries