Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250103 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/21/079
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The study provides insights into how tourism can be managed to improve financial access in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. To make this assessment, inequality dynamics (i.e. the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and Palma ratio) are interacted with tourism (tourism receipts and tourists' arrivals) to establish inequality levels that should not be exceeded in order for tourism to promote financial access in the sampled countries. From the findings, inequality levels that should not be exceeded for tourism to promote financial access are provided: (i) 0.666 of the Atkinson index and 5.000 of the Palma ratio for tourism receipts to promote financial access and (ii) for tourist arrivals to enhance financial access, 0.586, 0.721 and 6.597 respectively, of the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index, and the Palma ratio. Policy implications are discussed.
Subjects: 
Tourism
Management
Financial access
Inequality
Africa
SustainableDevelopment
JEL: 
O10
O40
Z3
Z32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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