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Particularly in light of the 2000 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), governments, multilateral aid agencies, non-government organizations (NGOs) and local communities are increasingly “harnessing” tourism for poverty... more

Particularly in light of the 2000 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), governments, multilateral aid agencies, non-government organizations (NGOs) and local communities are increasingly “harnessing” tourism for poverty alleviation in lesser development countries (LDCs). In the case of the Yucatan Peninsula, rural Maya communities have had little opportunity for participation in the tourism industry beyond low wage labour in the Mexican Caribbean tourist poles. Yet, tourist demand for “authentic” experiences is strong enough to suggest that community-based rural tourism among the Maya could potentially achieve the pro-poor tourism (PPT) objective of channelling tourism earnings to low-wealth villages. The purpose of this article is to present a conceptual framework for a community corporate joint venture to achieve this PPT objective. In this article we discuss the conventional model for tourism development and present an alternative model for community-based rural tourism enterprises. This model, created from a broader rural development program that was successfully pilot tested by the authors, is applied in the case of collectively owned Mexican ejido lands in the Yucatan Peninsula but also has applicability for alternative tourism ventures in other collective land tenure contexts.

disampaikan oleh Oswar Mungkasa pada Seminar PERPAMSI dengan tema temu pemerintah di Hotel Atrium Jakarata 7 Februari 2007

This series will publish volumes that go beyond the traditional concepts of consumption, income or wealth and will offer a broad, inclusive view of inequality and well-being. Specific areas of interest will include Capabilities and... more

This series will publish volumes that go beyond the traditional concepts of consumption, income or wealth and will offer a broad, inclusive view of inequality and well-being. Specific areas of interest will include Capabilities and Inequalities, Discrimination and Segregation in the Labor Market, Equality of Opportunities, Globalization and Inequality, Human Development and the Quality of Life, Income and Social Mobility, Inequality and Development, Inequality and Happiness, Inequality and Malnutrition, Income and Social Mobility, Inequality in Consumption and Time Use, Inequalities in Health and Education, Multidimensional Inequality and Poverty Measurement, Polarization among Children and Elderly People, Social Policy and the Welfare State, and Wealth Distribution.

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed povertyreducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it... more

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed povertyreducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should disproportionally benefit the poor. The paper proposes an operational definition of propoor growth that restricts it to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It is then shown that this component measures how pro-poor growth is over a given period based on the above mentioned definition. The paper further presents several indicators for evaluating and monitoring the ‘pro-poorness’ of growth over time and concludes with an empirical illustration for the case of Honduras.