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Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange and employment across developing economies. A scant literature has explored the relationship between tourism and the advent of the internet. This paper contributes to the tourism-trade literature and studies the empirical relationship between international tourism and the adoption of digital technologies that facilitate search about tourism opportunities across countries. It links foreign visits with the spread of the use of the internet in sending countries and the level of development of business-to-consumer digital tools in host countries. The paper estimates a well-specified gravity model of tourist arrivals between country pairs with panel data. The results indicate that frictions affecting bilateral tourism flows have been attenuated by the advent of digital tools. The absolute value of the effects of bilateral geographic distance, language differences, and border-contiguity seem to be reduced by the use of the internet by potential tourists and the business sector in host countries. The results are robust to alternative proxies for internet use for tourism search proxied by data from Google trends. The paper also presents simulations of the potential impacts of advances in the adoption of digital tools over time, linking the adoption process to mechanisms of technology adoption that are commonplace in the literature.
Accommodation and Tourism Industry --- Digital Technology --- Industry --- Information and Communication Technologies --- Information Technology --- International Economics and Trade --- Services Trade --- Technology Adoption --- Technology Innovation --- Tourism --- Trade and Services
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The Coronavirus(COVID-19) pandemic has had strong adverse impacts on the private sector in low- and middle-income countries. The future course of the pandemic remains highly uncertain, so consideration of alternative scenarios may be more helpful in assessing investment opportunities and designing policy responses. Based on private sector responses to the pandemic shock, and lessons learned from previous exogeneous shocks, this paper outlines two alternative scenarios for private enterprise during the recovery phase. The scenarios consider a stronger as well as a weaker global economic recovery, and both of these are based on the information available as of end-June 2021. Thus, the scenarios do not discuss developments that have taken place since June 30, which include the emergence of the Delta variant of Coronavirus (COVID-19), and the evolution of vaccine deployment around the world.
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Despite the rising volume of remittances flowing to developing countries, their impact on banking sector breadth and depth in recipient countries has been largely unexplored. The authors examine this topic using municipio-level data on the fraction of households that receive remittances and on measures of banking breadth and depth for Mexico. They find that remittances are strongly associated with greater banking breadth and depth, increasing the number of branches and accounts per capita and the ratio of deposits to gross domestic product. These effects are significant both statistically and economically, even after conducting robustness tests and addressing the potential endogeneity of remittances.
Access to Finance --- Bank branches --- Banking services --- Banks --- Banks and Banking Reform --- Commercial banks --- Debt Markets --- Demand for credit --- Deposits --- Development bank --- Expenditures --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial development --- Financial systems --- Fixed costs --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Households --- Inequality --- International bank --- Labor force participation --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Outreach --- Population Policies --- Remittance --- Remittances --- Source of income --- Wire transfers
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Despite the rising volume of remittances flowing to developing countries, their impact on banking sector breadth and depth in recipient countries has been largely unexplored. The authors examine this topic using municipio-level data on the fraction of households that receive remittances and on measures of banking breadth and depth for Mexico. They find that remittances are strongly associated with greater banking breadth and depth, increasing the number of branches and accounts per capita and the ratio of deposits to gross domestic product. These effects are significant both statistically and economically, even after conducting robustness tests and addressing the potential endogeneity of remittances.
Access to Finance --- Bank branches --- Banking services --- Banks --- Banks and Banking Reform --- Commercial banks --- Debt Markets --- Demand for credit --- Deposits --- Development bank --- Expenditures --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial development --- Financial systems --- Fixed costs --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Households --- Inequality --- International bank --- Labor force participation --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Outreach --- Population Policies --- Remittance --- Remittances --- Source of income --- Wire transfers
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