The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today. The chronic poverty of many nations affects more than the citizens and economies of those nations; it threatens global stability as the pressures of immigration become unsustainable and...

1. Faces of the poor -- 2. The Poverty Obliteration Paradigm (POP) -- 3. The potential double impact of tourism development and poverty reduction -- 4. The power of tourism in poverty alleviation : the empirical nexus tourism, growth, inequality and poverty -- 5. Tourism and poverty intensity --...

Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that...