Tourism development and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan African countries: an empirical investigation

Q2 Social Sciences

Development Studies Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1080/21665095.2021.2007782

N. Odhiambo

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this study, the impact of tourism development on poverty alleviation is examined using panel data from 32 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries during the period 2005–2014. Two indicators of tourism development are used, namely tourist arrivals and tourism revenue. In addition, four control variables have been used, namely economic growth, trade, the rule of law, and income inequality (measured by the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio), thereby leading to three separate specifications for each tourism development proxy. Using the generalized method of moments (GMM) regression analysis, the study found that the impact of tourism development on poverty alleviation is not unanimous. When the number of tourist arrivals is used as a proxy, the results show that an increase in tourism development consistently leads to an increase in household welfare; hence, a decrease in poverty, irrespective of the specification used. However, when tourism revenue is used as a proxy, no significant impact of tourism development on household welfare is found to exist, irrespective of the model specification used. The results also show that income inequality has a clear negative impact on household welfare in SSA countries when it is measured by the Gini coefficient, while economic growth and the rule of law have a distinct positive effect.

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撒哈拉以南非洲国家旅游发展与扶贫:一项实证调查

本文利用2005-2014年32个撒哈拉以南非洲(SSA)国家的面板数据，考察了旅游发展对减贫的影响。本文使用了旅游发展的两个指标，即游客人数和旅游收入。此外，还使用了四个控制变量，即经济增长、贸易、法治和收入不平等(通过基尼系数、阿特金森指数和帕尔马比率来衡量)，从而为每个旅游发展代理提供了三个单独的规格。利用广义矩量法(GMM)回归分析，研究发现旅游发展对扶贫的影响并不一致。当以游客数量作为代理时，结果表明，旅游发展的增加持续导致家庭福利的增加;因此，无论使用何种标准，贫困都会减少。然而，当使用旅游收入作为代理时，无论使用何种模型规格，都没有发现旅游发展对家庭福利的显著影响。研究结果还表明，以基尼系数衡量，收入不平等对SSA国家的家庭福利有明显的负向影响，而经济增长和法治对家庭福利有明显的正向影响。

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Development Studies Research Social Sciences-Development

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