{"id":4250,"date":"2017-04-20T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2017-04-16T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T22:42:01","slug":"new-research-eric-tchouamou-njoya-and-neelu-seetaram-2017-tourism-contribution-to-poverty-alleviation-in-kenya-a-dynamic-computable-general-equilibrium-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2017\/04\/20\/new-research-eric-tchouamou-njoya-and-neelu-seetaram-2017-tourism-contribution-to-poverty-alleviation-in-kenya-a-dynamic-computable-general-equilibrium-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"New research Eric Tchouamou Njoya and Neelu Seetaram 2017,  Tourism Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in Kenya: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0047287517700317\">Eric Tchouamou Njoya<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>and Neelu Seetaram 2017, \u00a0Tourism Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in Kenya: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis,\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Journal of Travel Research, 1\u201312 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0047287517700317\">doi.org\/10.1177\/0047287517700317<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Abstract<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The aim of this article is to investigate the claim that tourism development can be the engine for poverty reduction in Kenya\u00a0using a dynamic, microsimulation computable general equilibrium model. The article improves on the common practice\u00a0in the literature by using the more comprehensive Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) index to measure poverty instead of\u00a0headcount ratios only. Simulations results from previous studies confirm that expansion of the tourism industry will benefit\u00a0different sectors unevenly and will only marginally improve poverty headcount. This is mainly due to the contraction of the\u00a0agricultural sector caused the appreciation of the real exchange rates. This article demonstrates that the effect on poverty\u00a0gap and poverty severity is, nevertheless, significant for both rural and urban areas with higher impact in the urban areas.\u00a0Tourism expansion enables poorer households to move closer to the poverty line. It is concluded that the tourism industry is pro-poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Keywords<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Kenya, tourism development, poverty, dynamic computable general equilibrium, CGE, microsimulation, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Index<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Tchouamou Njoya\u00a0and Neelu Seetaram 2017, \u00a0Tourism Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in Kenya: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis,\u00a0 Journal of Travel Research, 1\u201312 \u00a0doi.org\/10.1177\/0047287517700317 Abstract The aim of this article is to investigate the claim that tourism development can be the engine for poverty reduction in Kenya\u00a0using a dynamic, microsimulation computable general equilibrium model&#8230;.  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2017\/04\/20\/new-research-eric-tchouamou-njoya-and-neelu-seetaram-2017-tourism-contribution-to-poverty-alleviation-in-kenya-a-dynamic-computable-general-equilibrium-analysis\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about New research Eric Tchouamou Njoya and Neelu Seetaram 2017,  Tourism Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in Kenya: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}