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Tourism is one of Latin America's fastest growing industries but the impact of tourism on the poor and the effects on … lagging regions are under debate. Many studies have evaluated the growth impacts of the tourism sector but few have analyzed … the impact of tourism on the economy and poverty at the subnational level in developing countries. As a country marked by …
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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 …
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to promote Caribbean tourism. This has led to suboptimal routing based on distorting subsidy schemes with often …
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the contribution of the ecosystem to the economy and finds that changes in tourism and bushmeat hunting have surprisingly …
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that tourism can help alleviate some of these costs by providing a relatively inexpensive platform for cost-discovery and …-level data on world and Nepal's exports (both for goods that are related and unrelated to tourism) with Nepalese data on tourist … inflows and expenditures and macro indicators on relative prices. For tourism-related goods, the analysis reveals a positive …
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and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism … of Caribbean tourism and it is the first paper to examine the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for …
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Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this report finds that: (i) relative to the rest of Croatia, an average firm in the lagging region of the country (Eastern Croatia) is only slightly behind in the adoption of structured management...
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Although many studies consider the spatial pattern of manufacturing plants in developing countries, the role of services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by...
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In Localizing Development, Mansuri and Rao survey theory and evidence for development strategies based on local community empowerment. This note extends their theoretical argument by focusing on local government as a vital source of new leadership. Local leaders who provide better public service...
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The differences in financial development across Indian states, while seeming substantial, have a minor effect on firm lifecycle and growth. These results hold controlling for differences in labor regulations across states, capital intensity, and for firms born before and after the major reforms....
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