Essays about: "ECOWAS"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the word ECOWAS.
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1. Gender dimension in the informal trade networks in the ECOWAS region: the case of the Nana Benz
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This research focuses on the determinants of participation in informal trade and firms for women in West Africa using the example of the Nana Benz in Togo as a case study. Women have been involved in informal trade for centuries, yet their role tends to be overlooked due to gender inequalities. READ MORE
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2. Regional Organizations and Conflict Management: A Critical Discourse analysis of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). : Why did ECOWAS’s AFISMA fail to Resolve the Malian Conflict between 2012 and 2013 ?
University essay fromAbstract : This paper seeks to investigate why did ECOWAS’s AFISMA fail to resolve the Malian conflict between 2012 and 2013. The idea is not to go over the different challenges that ECOWAS faced in handling the Malian conflict but to instead establish the single main challenge that inhibited ECOWAS from achieving its desired goals in resolving and managing the crisis in Mali. READ MORE
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3. Regional Power Asymmetries and their Effects on Regional Integration: The Case of ECOWAS
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : African regional trade integration remains an understudied field as most of the theories and concepts applied to the phenomenon have been largely drawn in the background of the European context. This study aims to study the Economic Community of West African States by applying a new theoretical approach that posits that there are two logics for developing countries to integrate regionally, an extra-regional and intraregional. READ MORE
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4. Sustainable and Circular Business Models: Textiles in West Africa
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : West Africa’s textile and clothing (T&C) industries have persevered through the decline following the economic liberalization policies in the 1980s. This thesis seeks to explore the sustainable and circular business models which exist in the West African region. READ MORE
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5. Effects of Energy Poverty
University essay from Södertörns högskola/NationalekonomiAbstract : This study examined the relationship between energy poverty and environmental quality using panel data of 9 ECOWAS nations for the period of 2000 to 2020. The study adopted cross-sectional Augmented Im, Pesaran, and Shinpanel unit root test and the panel non-linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag techniques as analytical tools with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita as control variables. READ MORE