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This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … evaluated policy -one specific sector in one province- we also construct a synthetic control for the tourism sector using a … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …
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políticas públicas; la educación como herramienta de crecimiento con equidad con ejemplos de casos de México y Taiwán. Asimismo … Equitable Growth: Lessons from Mexico and Taiwan; Best Practices in Poverty-Reducing and Equity-Enhancing Lending in 2000 …
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The stories included in this volume were published originally in IDBAmérica and tell of new approaches the people of Latin America and the Caribbean are taking to protect the rainforest, reduce erosion, conserve marine life, create protected areas, and ensure a better future for themselves and...
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threats are recognized and addressed. Four main characteristics of Caribbean tourism provide the rationale for this study: 1 …) Tourism is the single most common industry in the region; 2) Tourism is the fastest growing industry in virtually every … Caribbean country; 3) Tourism also is the most important and sometimes the only productive sector in some of these economies; 4 …
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This report includes the proceedings of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort on July 24-25, 2003. The seminar provided a forum in which experts from the Southeast Asian and Caribbean regions...
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In this technical note, the authors present the effects of climate change on tourism development in the Caribbean … decision makers in the tourism sector, climate change is a new strategic reality. Increasingly, institutional investors, banks …
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The key question the research in this paper tries to answer is whether those four activities truly represent a viable economic alternative in Latin America's environmentally fragile hinterlands. Several cases in each line of activity are analyzed to determine the level and distribution of the...
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As part of a collaborative effort between the IDB's Environment Division and the World Resources Institute, this document discusses environmental mainstreaming considerations in the context of the four pillars of the Bank's Institutional Strategy: Modernization of the State, Social Development,...
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