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الزيارات المنزلية ضرورة ملحة لصحة الأمهات والمواليد
No full textتهدف هذه الورقة السياستية إلى تسليط الضوء على إحتياجات النساء بعد الولادة وذلك بالإستناد إلى نتائج بحث تدخلي مجتمعي للنساء بعد الولادة، والذي أجري في إحدى قرى محافظة رام الله في عام 2013، والخروج بمقترح لنموذج يلائم إحتياجات النساء بعد الولادة وقابل للتطبيق في الريف الفلسطيني
مقومات إنتصار المقاومة الفلسطينية
No full textمقال نشر في : مجلة الدراسات الفلسطينية، مجلد 25، عدد 100، 2014، ص. 18-2
Report on proposal writing
No full textThis workpackage (WP3) in SIERA project aims at building the competencies and facilitate the participation of
Birzeit University, in particular BZU Sina Institute, in EU funded research programs, namely in the previous FP7
and the current Horizon2020. This goal is to be achieved through the organization of a number of workshops on
proposal writing in addition to participating in the writing of Horizon2020/FP7 proposals. This document (D3.2)
highlights the achievements of the SIERA consortium in terms of capacity building in Horizon2020, as challenged
by the transition form the previous framework programme, including the preparation of Sina Institute Horizon 2020
profile, to highlight Sina Institute’s research interests and facilitate potential consortia building. In addition to
highlighting some of the potential Horizon 2020 and other collaboration opportunities that Sina Institute has been
working with, as part of WP3 activities.
As part of the SIERA project under WP3, Sina Institute also organized the second proposal writing workshop,
covering the competencies required for a successful research project proposal, and introducing Horizon2020 as the
new EU research framework programme, the workshop’s agenda can be found in appendix 2 below. The workshop
was presented by highly experienced professionals in managing EU funded projects; Mr. Ruben Riestra from Spain,
and Prof. Paolo Bouquet, from the University of Trento Italy. In addition to a session presented by Prof. Mustafa
Jarrar, presenting EU funded research projects at Sina Institute. Beside some important insights of how to position a
potential proposal from the angle of the Palestinian participation. The workshop also included a number of private
consultation sessions for BZU staff, and an in-depth session for BZU Sina staff. The sessions covered many topics
of high importance regarding successful EU projects management. In addition to discussing BZU’s and Sina’s
visions and strategies for Horizon2020. Finally, Mr. Riestra’s and Prof. Bouquet’s visit included several important
meetings and discussions with potential stakeholders and partners for upcoming projects proposals and
opportunities.
Furthermore, Sina Institute is currently working on a project proposal for Horizon 2020, in addition to the fulfilled
task of submitting two FP7 projects that were reported at D3.1. The project is entitled “NGOs Coordination Hub”
aims at providing the platform and the means at which the local NGOs in the Middle East could coordinate their
work and activities with other relevant NGOs in the area, and with the funding bodies in the EU. The proposal is still
under preparation, and is to be submitted to the H2020/BES 12–2014 call for proposals in November
Progressive income taxes and macroeconomic instability
No full textThis paper aims to study the stability properties of a two-period overlapping generations model (OLG) with a progressive labor-income taxation rule. In this case, wage income tax rates are increasing with agent’s income. Each representative agent lives two periods: youth and adulthood. In the first period, agents choose labor supply and allocate their after-tax income between consumptions and savings (capital accumulations). In the second period, agents are retired and consume entirely their savings returns. It is shown that progressive labor-income taxation policy acts as a destabilizing factor in the sense that a higher progressivity makes the emergence of indeterminacy and endogenous fluctuations more likely. These fluctuations appear if the elasticity of capital-labor substitution is sufficiently low. Moreover, we show that saving rate widens the range of parameters giving rise to endogenous fluctuations. The analytical findings are completed by a numerical exampl
