Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 “tourism countries” within a sample … documented that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD …

Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical … evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to … fundamental determinants of economic growth (Acemoglu et al., 2001) and ask whether previous positive results of tourism on growth …

convergence, and a carefully estimated econometric model of lagged adjustment confirms this. On average, a 1% decrease in the per … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters … fastest convergence rates given these parameters are the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. The forecast values for …

contribute to explaining the waste dynamics. Though North-South waste performances are showing some signals of convergence …, greater efforts towards convergence of waste performances in a decentralised policy scenario are needed. …

and sufficient condition for convergence to consensus and characterize outcomes where the society ends up polarized. Our … some extent. We provide an analysis of the speed of convergence and the possible outcomes of the process. Furthermore, we …

an imitation dynamic and provide conditions under which play evolves to an imitation equilibrium; convergence is …