The Government of Ethiopia (GOE) has set in train an initiative to develop the tourism sector in Ethiopia. This study … viable strategy to grow tourist visitation and revenues whilst supporting the GOE poverty reduction goals. The study … identified that tourism generated approximately US$ 132 million in in country expenditure revenue from a base of about 150 …

This study estimates the contribution of nature-based tourism in Zambia to economic growth and poverty reduction as … well as to the sustainability of the management of the wildlife estate. The Zambian Government has identified tourism along … and three characterize the tourism industry and the economic impact of nature tourists. Using a variety of sources of …

"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

Half of the moderately poor, and one third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in Mexico. While cities offer … public services. Yet, the urban-rural distinctions need to be seen as a continuum, where depth and characteristics of poverty … vary with settlement size. The objective of this report is to inform the design of urban poverty interventions. It is …

This study is part of the second phase of a long-term programmatic work on poverty in Mexico, in three phases being … carried out by the Bank at the request of the Government of Mexico. Reasons for a study on rural poverty, are because the size … and intensity of the phenomenon, poverty, and inequality in rural Mexico are a matter of concern not only from the well …

In June 2006, the Guizhou Tourism Administration's Guizhou Provincial Rural Tourism Development Plan was approved by … the National Tourism Administration of The People's Republic of China (CNTA). This plan provides official strategic … guidance for the development of the rural tourism sector and identifies around 160 villages for development. The proposals for …

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 …

. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purpose of evaluating the impact of the … PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the regression discontinuity … noneligible households in the control localities. This paper--a product of the Poverty and Gender Unit, Latin America and the …