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competitiveness index and International Finance Corporation (IFC) Doing Business report to benchmark Ethiopia s tourism … study focuses on short-term strategic interventions that can help to improve tourism competitiveness under the major pillars … tourism development policy in an effort to make the sector globally competitive. It also outlines the analytical foundations …
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"New Zealand's new Recognized Seasonal Employer program allows workers from the Pacific Islands to come to New Zealand for up to seven months to work in the horticulture and viticulture industries. One of the explicit objectives of the program is to encourage economic development in the Pacific....
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"Temporary migration programs for unskilled workers are increasingly being proposed as a way to both relieve labor shortages in developed countries and aid development in sending countries without entailing many of the costs associated with permanent migration. New Zealand's new Recognized...
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"Anderson, Damania, and Jackson develop a common-agency lobbying model to help understand why North America and the European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Their results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby policymakers to influence...
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. Finally, Section 6 lists priority areas for women in tourism and provides recommendations to be considered in the context of …
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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 suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are …
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Tourism has become the leading economic sector of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) islands, thus … expanding linkages with the local economy seems crucial going forward. Tourism has replaced agriculture as the main economic … tourism sector of these islands accounted for an estimated 45 percent of GDP, and around 60 percent of foreign exchange …
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This study estimates the contribution of nature-based tourism in Zambia to economic growth and poverty reduction as … well as to the sustainability of the management of the wildlife estate. The Zambian Government has identified tourism along … and three characterize the tourism industry and the economic impact of nature tourists. Using a variety of sources of …
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The Government of Ethiopia (GOE) has set in train an initiative to develop the tourism sector in Ethiopia. This study … identified that tourism generated approximately US$ 132 million in in country expenditure revenue from a base of about 150 … characteristics and based on this suggests a strategy of focusing on the development of leisure tourism, identifying this as the …
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