AN EXAMINATION OF TOURISM AS A TOOL TO CONFRONT POVERTY
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Poverty, tourism, Latinoamerica, economic growtyAbstract
The poverty has been a phenomenom that has delayed and transformed the latinoamericam societies. One of each three persons that live in Latinoamerica is considerate poor, qualifier that makes reference to those people that do not have sufficient resources to satisfy their basic needs. Because of that, the present article pretends to pose the tourism activity as an alternative to figth the poverty on developing countries, this because the tourism generates employemet, currency, incomes to the governments and business opportunities. So this work is aimed to research the empirical relation between international tourism, economic growth, the reduction of poverty and quality of life in Costa Rica and Nicaragua the relation tourism-economic growth-poverty reduction, is focused to in time frame 1980-2005 and the relation tourisn and life quality is focused in the period 1990-2010.
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