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. This paper presents the results of a top-down assessment of the impact of tourism spending on growth and...
Specialisation in agricultural production, which so many inhabitants of the world's worst-off countries depend upon, is characterised by diminishing returns over time, as grow- ers exploit and then move on from the best and most fruitful land to increasingly marginal prospects (Collier & Venables,...
Poverty is to a great extent a matter of structural forces such as exclusion, discrimination and the deprivation of rights, governance deficiencies and corruption, and the forces of ecological change that increase the vul- nerability of the poor, as many of them depend on natural resources ...
to oblige all countries, rich and poor, to grant at least 20 years' patent protection for new medicines, thereby delaying production of the inexpensive generic substitutes upon which developing-country health services and poor people depend. iprcommission.org 原因是该协议的本质 缺陷是要求所有国家,...
1 where a narrow elite has a disproportionate influence on state policy. In those countries outright bribery may be low, but the system is riddled with special interest deals that favor the few over the many. Researchers at the World Bank estimate that worldwide bribery totals at least $1 ...
“To be clear, TAHMO can never be a replacement of efficient and effective national weather services,” van de Giesen said, adding that many African governments still don't have the needed resources or funding. In countries like Somalia and Mozambique, with some...
However, the literature has shown that different infrastructure projects across countries have different effects on households' welfare. The heterogeneity of impacts indicates the importance of identifying the infrastructure type that could lead to pro-poor growth. This paper therefore investigates the ...
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We note that South Africa is an interesting context to study this relationship because it is one of the most unequal countries in the worldFootnote 2. For example, being a higher SES individual could be associated with greater loss of interpersonal resources because of isolation (Wanberg et al...
This is a particularly serious shortcoming in the context of Global South countries, where socio-economic inequalities are highly pronounced (Dodman et al. 2012; Hasell et al. 2023) and the poorest in society lack basic resources (food, medicine, standby generators, etc.) for disaster ...