A quantitative framework for assessing public investment in tourism - An application to Haiti

Tourism Management

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 157-173

  Banerjee, Onil ^a   Cicowiez, Martin ^b   Gachot, Sébastien ^c  

^a INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^b Universidad Nacional de La Plata   (Argentina)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium; Cost benefit analysis; Economy wide modeling; Haiti; Impact assessment; Microsimulation; Poverty; Pro poor tourism investment; Tourism investment

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POVERTY; REGIONAL ECONOMY; TOURISM;

HAITI;

EID: 84931265759     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.05.015     Document Type: Article

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