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Leveraging Urbanization to Promote a New Growth Model While Reducing Territorial Disparities in Morocco : Urban and Regional Development Policy Note
Lall, Somik - 2019
Today 60 percent of Moroccans reside in urban areas, as opposed to 35 percent in 1970. By 2050, nearly three-quarters of the country's population will be living in cities. Along with the concentration of people, urbanization will lead to the increasing concentration of economic activities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644214
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Regional Development in the South of Mexico : Infrastructure for Growth and Poverty Alleviation
World Bank Group - 2002
This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here through its impact on social as well as economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644927
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Investing in Skills to Promote Inclusive Growth in Mindanao
Acosta, Pablo - 2019
In 2015, the World Bank embarked on a collaborative effort to understand and address the jobs challenge in Mindanao through the Mindanao Jobs Report (MJR). Good jobs - jobs that raise real income and lift people out of poverty - were needed for more than two million Mindanawons who were either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646548
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Poverty, inequality, and agriculture in the EU
Azevedo, João Pedro; Brink, Rogerius Johannes Eugenius … - 2018
Boosting convergence and shared prosperity in the European Union achieved renewed urgency after the global financial crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper sheds light on the relationship between poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002270
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Cross-region transfers in a monetary union : evidence from the US and some implications
Pennings, Steven - 2020
US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241154
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Where they live : district-level measures of poverty, average consumption, and the middle class in Central Asia
Seitz, William - 2019
Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the uneven spread of prosperity left many communities struggling to catch up. To support lagging regions within countries, each of the region's five national governments has made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059249
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Digital platforms and the demand for international tourism services
López Córdova, J. Ernesto - 2020
Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange and employment across developing economies. A scant literature has … explored the relationship between tourism and the advent of the internet. This paper contributes to the tourism …-trade literature and studies the empirical relationship between international tourism and the adoption of digital technologies that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229085
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Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
Twining-Ward, Louise - 2018
Tourism is an engine for jobs, exports, and investments. The tourism sector is also the largest, global, market …-based contributor to financing protected area systems. Nature-based tourism (NBT) is a sub-component of the tourism sector that includes … wildlife-based tourism. NBT is a powerful tool countries can leverage to grow and diversify their economies while protecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644928
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Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration : Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto
World Bank Group - 2018
regeneration, and sustainable tourism can play a vital role in developing countries' efforts to promote local economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645541