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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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Can nature promote development? The role of sustainable tourism for economic growth

Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph - 2010

We analyze whether biodiversity is enhancing the development process in developing countries (DCs) via increasing tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if used sustainably - provides a comparative advantage in...

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Zum systematischen Stellenwert von Wirtschaftswachstum: Ziel, Mittel oder weder noch?

Hirata, Johannes - 2012

In der gegenwärtigen Debatte um die Ziele sozio-ökonomischer Entwicklung nimmt Wirtschaftswachstum eine zentrale, wenn … auch umstrittene Rolle ein. Während die eine Seite Wirtschaftswachstum als etwas Erstrebenswertes betrachtet, da sie es als … diese beiden Positionen kritisch und argumentiert, dass beide einen Fehler begehen, indem sie Wirtschaftswachstum zu einem …

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Human Capital and Economic Growth - How Strong is the Nexus?

Škare, Marinko; Lacmanovic, Sabina - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 43, pp. 612-633

The link between human capital and economic growth still remains unexplained because of the measurement issues connected to the human capital stock. This study investigates the link between human capital stock and economic growth using inclusive wealth index and ratio of engaged to actively...

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The determinants of immigrants' skill composition

Karapınar Kocağ, Esra; Li, Yutong; Popescu, Cristina … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 9, pp. 1-18

Movements of labor across the world is an ongoing debate in the literature in terms of its drivers and results in sending and receiving areas. Skill composition of immigrant labor has been discussed by several papers, although they generally focused on visa policies or firm level productivity....

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Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics: A critical appraisal

McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Hanley, Nick - 2024

measure sustainability and the conflicting messages that policy makers receive, despite a common underlying conceptual …

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Microfinance 3.0: Reconciling Sustainability with Social Outreach and Responsible Delivery

Köhn, Doris (contributor) - 2013

This book focuses on the achievements, current trends and further potential of microfinance to scale-up and serve many more clients with financial services that enable them to improve their living conditions. The book asks what it takes to achieve sustainable impact: to know your clients and to...

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Between Development and Sustainability: Symbiotic Synergy or Irreconcilable Duality

Ferreira, Agata - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 1 (2017) 2, pp. 27-43

development and sustainability, its evolution and current status and question whether future developments in the area of … financial flows and investments, consumption and production; or whether the "sustainability" part of the agenda, with protection … historical origins and developments of the concepts of development and sustainability, since industrial revolution of the …

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Examining the "natural resource curse" and the impact of various forms of capital in small tourism and natural resource-dependent economies

Petar, Kurecic; Kokotovic, Filip - In: Economies 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-24

The problem of the relevance of human and natural capital, as well as the potential adverse effect of natural capital on economic growth, has gained increased attention in development economics. The aim of this paper is to assess, theoretically and empirically, the relevance of several forms of...

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Roles of Fiscal Policy in New Zealand

Barker, Felicity C; Buckle, Robert A; Clair, Robert W St - 2008

are: fiscal sustainability, fiscal structure and fiscal stabilisation. The paper reviews international literature …

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