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...

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 --...