Sökning: "ECOWAS"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 30 uppsatser innehållade ordet ECOWAS.

  1. 1. Gender dimension in the informal trade networks in the ECOWAS region: the case of the Nana Benz

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Gloria Sánchez Sánchez; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  3. 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 ?

    Kandidat-uppsats,

    Författare :Gentil Niwe; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Conflict management; ECOWAS; Mali; AFISMA; ownership.;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Regional Power Asymmetries and their Effects on Regional Integration: The Case of ECOWAS

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Axel Fégeant; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Trade integration; Africa; ECOWAS; Hegemon; Nigeria; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Sustainable and Circular Business Models: Textiles in West Africa

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Amanda Björkdahl; [2022]
    Nyckelord :sustainable business models; circular economy; West Africa; ECOWAS; business model innovation; textile and clothing industry; secondhand clothing; textile waste; sustainable business model pattern taxonomy; 45 SBM patterns; modèles d affaires durables; économie circulaire; Afrique de l Ouest; CEDEAO; innovation de modèle d affaires; industrie du textile et de l habillement; vêtements d occasion; déchets textiles; taxonomie des modèles d affaires durables;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Effects of Energy Poverty

    Master-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Nationalekonomi

    Författare :Obiekwe Edwin Anaso; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Energy Poverty; Ecological Footprint; Sustainability; Rewable Energy; Economic Development;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER