| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit Hours |
Prerequests |
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453511
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Advanced Macroeconomics Theory & Policy
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3 |
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| This course is concerned with economic balances model in goods markets, money labour, the external sector according to neocinsic and new classic theories and rational expectations. Moreover, there will be a survey of certain topics like inflation, unemployment exchange rates and prices. This course will survey the older and modern economic grow the theories, plus monetary financial policies and external trade so as to achieve economic goals of the state. This course will consider expansion of the macroeconomic analysis to include the specific situations of the developing countries. |
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453512
|
Econometric
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3 |
|
| This course aims at providing students with tools of economic analysis. It will cover the classic linear model plus opposing its basic hypotheses especially multiple correlation, self correlation, difference in the error factors in addition to the least square model preliminary equations, methods of selecting models, illusionary variables, temporal chains and other selected topics. The course will focus on the practical side of all these topics and employing comprehensive programs to assess and analyse standard models. |
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453513
|
Economic development
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3 |
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| This course aims at defining general traits of development, economic growth issues, the impact of historical background and the future expectations on that. Moreover, it will define issues of economic difference and their impact on the economic development. It will focus on how poverty is related to malnutrition, how population growth is related to economic development, the mutual relations between the rural and the city and the market, the agricultural sector issues plus land, labour and loan institutions issues. By going through the aforementioned subjects, we'll come across experiences of such countries that have already achieved success in economic development e.g. the South east Asia. Finally, the course will survey economic development experience in Palestine, in addition to certain obstacles or problems that Palestine faces not neglecting the various policies in that sphere. |
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453514
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Banking & Monetary Policies
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3 |
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| This course aims to introduce students to the monetary systems in particular the current international monetary system and the monetary system in Palestine. It is also designed to introduce students to the definition of the international monetary institutions such as the IMF and The Arab Monetary Fund and its role in assisting developing countries to maintain currency stability and to finance the deficit in the balance of payments. It also aims at introducing the global money market and international capital markets and their investment tools. Finally, it introduces students to the monetary policies and their methods in achieving economic growth and maintain price stability and currency. |
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453521
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Quantitative & Research Methods
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3 |
|
| This course will focus on creative thinking skills, the making of questions and problems in a scientific method that can be tested both statistically and logically. It will also focus on skills needed to write questionnaires, collecting data, branching it, selecting samples and analysing them. It will further consider predictions documentation, and generalisation skills, along with other skills necessary for carrying out the scientific research. |
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453550
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Microeconomics Theory & policy Analysis
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3 |
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| This course aims at examining the way microeconomics theory is applied in analysing topics related to public sectors. This course depends on microeconomic theory in analysing subjects related to public sector. The middle microeconomic theory in developing the partial analysis skills and its models. Also, it refers to welfare economy principles used in analysing policies. This course aims at well at analysing the consumer theory and the individual selection models and how to use those in analysing justice and government programs qualification (welfare programs). Additionally the course looks at the element of risk in individual selection models plus the public policies. It will further discuss the product theory including cost theory plus decision-taking theory for profit making establishment as well as the non-profit ones. Moreover this course will consider the role of public policies in all of the above topics. Finally the course will examine the relationship between these and taxes, price fixation, studying the structure of the market, welfare economy and the general economic balance. |
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453558
|
Public Enterprise Management
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3 |
|
| This course studies the requirements of enterprise management and enterprise that is controlled and managed by public sector. It includes mechanisms of modern management and methods being applied in such enterprise with light on managerial functions the success standards their economic feasibility, the general policies that run them and finally performance evaluation. |
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453598
|
Comprehensive Exam
|
0 |
|
| A graduate student must pass a qualifying examination (See Academic Rules and Regulations for Graduate Students). |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit Hours |
Prerequests |
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453517
|
International Trade & Trade Policies
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3 |
|
| This course studies the modern and classic international trade theories and how international trade is related to economic growth and economic development. It will also survey international trade policies and modern international trade agreements, economic globalisation, maladjustments that face international trade and have impact on all the afore mentioned by using diagrams and modern analysis. |
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453518
|
Labor Eco. & Human Resource Deve't Policy
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3 |
|
| This course analyses the offer and demand mechanism of the labor force on macroeconomic and microeconomics wages, labor force movement among sectors and geography. It looks at areas syndicates, unemployment policies and human resources development policies (The human capital Theory). |
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453551
|
Project Financial & Economical Appraisal
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3 |
|
| This course aims at defining methods of carrying out studies on economic feasibility, especially studying the market and assessing sales demand. In addition to analysing inputs and their characteristics, technical feasibility studies, labour force, costs, scheduling of executives, project finance, economic and financial assessment, analysis of the profitability, and finally the national profitability of a project, or what is known as the benefit cost and analysis. |
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453552
|
Income Distribution & Poverty Alleviation
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3 |
|
| This course aims at studying how income distribution in related to economic development and measurement of dissimilarities in income distribution, plus bilaterality in that among different areas. Finally it considers factors that affect in these dissimilarities and the policy employed in facing poverty through e.g. financial, monetary, educational policies and the re-distribution of the income. |
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453553
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Agricultural Development Policies
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3 |
|
| This course mainly deals with the economic frame of agriculture in the light of the increasing opening up in the international trade and the crease in the cost of main economic resources used in agriculture (land water, and capital). This course urges students to make an analytical study of the affecting factors in the competitive ability of the agricultural branches, with concentration on specifying the role of public and general sector organisations, and the NGOs in managing the agricultural development. |
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453554
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Regional & Urban Development
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3 |
|
| This course aims at studying regional and urban development theoretically, explicating urbanism in Palestine including all of its regions, featuring economic, social political, health and educational development phenomenon there. Also, this course is interested in the methods and techniques used in the diagnosis and the evaluation of problems among which the most vital is urbanism, migration from the country in to city, education, growth and the poverty concentration sites across the Palestine regions. |
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453555
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Mathematical Economics
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3 |
|
| This course aims at helping the student in employing mathematical methods and their applications on economy especially in comprehending economic model and methods of solving them, economic balance analysis methods of finding maximum and minimum values, applying that on companies' profits, costs, behaviour of consumers and producers with or without any constraints( in of one variable of more) and finally accustoming students to linear programming methods, input-out put models and national income models. |
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453556
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Industrial Economics Policies
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3 |
|
| This course will cover the behaviours of establishments, companies with the focus on oligarch models, game theory, vertical and horizontal merging, obstacles to movement and entrance, pricing policies, industrial development strategies, competition analysis, plus competition ability on peoples industries, establishment levels, research and development investment, the role of the government in encouraging industrial sector, standards, trade law and finally role of industry in economy. |
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453557
|
Total Quality Management
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3 |
|
| This course looks at the advanced topics in quality control, assurance and quality management. This includes an introduction to statistical quality control, quality function deployment, process engineering, assessment of quality programs, quality infrastructure and international standards. |
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453559
|
Management of Natural Resources & Environment
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3 |
|
| This course takes into consideration how natural resources and are related to environment and the problem of draining these resources through human and natural courses e.g. population growth and how it causes pressure and eventually results in draining such resources. Also, the course looks at abuse, pollution including all its types like the housing growth plus the pressure it causes on agricultural lands, natural dangers and methods of managing in addition to protecting and fixing these resources and finally ever-continuing development of them. |
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453560
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Economic Planning Policies
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3 |
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| This course aims at defining the concept of planning policies, their goals, types, different stages, ways of following them by using inputs and outputs models, in addition to other measurement and math models which include planning policies on macroeconomic and spectoral economic levels. |
