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This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...
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Handicrafts are key cultural products consumed in the Nigeria’s tourism industry. Owing to low entry barriers, as … handicrafts require a low level of capital investment, there is potential to develop viable linkages between tourism and local … responsibility (CSR) model of multinational oil companies on the development of rural young people (RYP) in cultural tourism in the …
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-products of globalization: dollarization and tourism. Empirical studies have ignored the possible relationship between … dollarization and tourism. However, we hypothesize that a booming tourism industry will fuel increase in the usage and circulation … of foreign currencies. The objective of this study is to examine the extent to which the tourism industry exacerbates the …
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Kenya. The study uses primary data to investigate qualitative implications. The findings reveal that South African firms …
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The study provides insights into how tourism can be managed to improve financial access in sub-Saharan Africa. The … coefficient, the Atkinson index and Palma ratio) are interacted with tourism (tourism receipts and tourists' arrivals) to … establish inequality levels that should not be exceeded in order for tourism to promote financial access in the sampled …
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This study complements the extant literature by assessing how the rule of law and political stability modulate tourism … development dynamics (i.e. tourism receipts and tourism expenditure) to affect economic development in terms of gross domestic … modulates both tourism receipts and tourism expenditure for overall positive effects on economic development and (ii) political …
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This study examines the dynamic impact of tourism development on economic growth in subSaharan Africa (SSA) using the … Generalised Method of Moments and data covering the period from 2002 to 2018. The increasingly important role of tourism and the … limelight the tourism sector has been enjoying of late, on the one hand, and the lack of sufficient coverage of tourismgrowth …
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The tourism literature has largely neglected another important factor that may influence the tourism and income … inequality relationships. This factor reflects democractic institutions of the destination country. To contribute to the tourism … literature, this studyattemmps to fill a gap in the tourism literature by investigating the moderating effect of democracy on the …
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modulate the incidence of some macroeconomic factors (i.e. domestic investment and trade openness) on tourism development. The … in modulating domestic investment for tourism development in terms of tourism receipts. It follows that, for the sampled … countries, promoting tourism development can be most effective if policies for enhancing domestic investment and promoting the …
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This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798944