Essays about: "the West Bank"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 49 essays containing the words the West Bank.

1. 11. Monetary Policy Determination: A Taylor Rule Based Approach : A study of the West African Economic and Monetary Union

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Internationella Handelshögskolan

   Author : Henric Nicklasson; Måns Ekström; [2019]
   Keywords : Taylor Rule; Monetary Policy; Discretion; Policy Rules;

   Abstract : The purpose of this paper has been to investigate the monetary policy in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), in terms of a Taylor rule based approach to their use of their interest rate. The evaluation of the different rules was based on both in-sample and out-of-sample forecast errors. READ MORE

3. 12. Good Goverance and Development : An analysis of Good Governance as tool for development

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Victor Bolander; [2019]
   Keywords : Good governance; Development; West Africa.;

   Abstract : Good governance and development have been two dominating concepts in the debate by development oriented scholars. However, are the two concepts necessarily compatible with each other? This research will analyze and discuss good governance and its link to development in a critical study of the liberal inspired governance. READ MORE

4. 13. Environmentalism of the occupied: A slow violence perspective on the West Bank’s deteriorating agricultural sector, and an overview of Palestinian agro-resistance in the struggle towards food sovereignty

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Jennifer Luna Pedersen; [2018]
   Keywords : slow violence; food sovereignty; environmentalism of the poor; environmentalism of the occupied; resistance; occupied Palestinian territories oPt ; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores what it means to struggle for food sovereignty under belligerent occupation. It makes the argument that the deliberate suppression of agriculture in the West Bank (occupied Palestinian territories) and ensuing deterioration of food sovereignty can be understood as an example of “slow violence,” further entrenching the settler-colonial occupation of Palestine. READ MORE

5. 14. Farming, resistance and coping in the occupied West Bank : a study of Palestinian agricultural actors’ framing of farming

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Mascha Wendler; [2018]
   Keywords : Palestine; West Bank; food security; food sovereignty; farming as resistance; agriculture; framing; collective action frames; patriotism;

   Abstract : Farming has a long cultural tradition in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) but today it is affected by the Israeli occupation. This thesis investigates how different agricultural actors in the West Bank frame farming as a practice and what collective action frames they have developed connected to their understanding of farming. READ MORE

6. 15. The Road to Resilience : Challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in the protection and empowerment of Palestinian refugee children

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Silvia Cano Diaz; [2017]
   Keywords : Palestinian refugee children; protection; empowerment; vulnerability; resilience.;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to study what are the current protection challenges faced by Palestinian refugee children and their families in the context of the protracted crisis in the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Furthermore, this study will also look at how different factors influence on children's well-being, enabling or impeding to build their resilience under the ongoing adversarial circumstances. READ MORE