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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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Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the way it is often measured, it has also led to the...
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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 provides new evidence on how effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting poor households in 10 low- and middle-income countries around the world. The results suggest that, in these countries, existing tariff structures fall short of recovering the costs of service...
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This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than $30 billion to its client countries. It also spends approximately $200 million on the provision of...
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