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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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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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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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This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
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This paper examines the interaction between macro-financial and climate-related risks. It brings together different strands of the literature on climate-related risks and how these relate to macro-financial management and risks. Physical impacts of climate change as well as the transition toward...
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The climate change challenge and the growth of the Islamic finance industry, together with the increase in socially responsible investing, could position green sukuk as a key instrument for financing clean energy and resilient infrastructure projects as well as shorter-term energy efficiency...
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This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new analysis tools and data. The paper discusses inference and interpretation in a machine learning framework. The results suggest that production gradually favors conserving the...
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