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Samoa
World Bank - 2015
In 2012 Tropical Cyclone (TC) Evan offered a distressing reminder of Samoa s exposure to natural hazards. TC Evan came only three years after the earthquake and tsunami of 2009, which affected 2.5 percent of the country s population, causing 143 fatalities and associated economic losses...
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Tonga
World Bank - 2015
Tonga is an archipelago composed of 172 islands spread across a combined land and sea area of 72,000sq.km. According to the 2011 census, Tonga had a population of 103, 252 people spread across 36 of the 172 islands. A population scattered so widely across such a large area can pose logistical...
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The Economic Costs of Noncommunicable Diseases in the Pacific Islands : A Rapid Stocktake of the Situation in Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu
World Bank - 2012
There are three main messages running throughout this report. First, Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) can impose large health, financial and economic costs on countries. This is particularly important in the Pacific where Government already finances, and provides, the bulk of health services....
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Promotion of investment in tourism infrastructure
2001
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Africa Region Tourism Strategy : Transformation through Tourism - Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods
World Bank - 2013
This paper presents the strategy vision for Africa of promoting tourism. The strategy relies on four pillars: policy …, implementation of the Africa Region Tourism Strategy, will focus interventions in these four areas in order to address the persistent … constraints to the growth of tourism in Africa. Combined, these interventions will enable high-demand tourism products to compete …
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Tourism, passport to development? : perspectives on the social and cultural effects of tourism in developing countries
Kadt, Emanuel de - 1979
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