 Towards The Quest To Reduce Income Inequality In Africa: Is There A Synergy Between Tourism Development And Governance?Isaac Kwesi Ofori,
Toyo Dossou () and
Seyi Akadiri
No 21/092, Working Papers from European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS) Abstract: Despite the growing attention on the tourism development-income inequality nexus, a conspicuous gap in the literature is that rigorous empirical works examining how good governance moderates the relationship is hard to find. Anchoring on the trickle-down theory and the tourism-led growth hypothesis, this study fills this void in the literature based on data for 48 African countries for the period 1996 – 2020. We provide strong evidence robust to several specifications from the GMM estimator to show that, though unconditionally, both tourism development and governance reduce income inequality in Africa, the effect of the former is amplified in the presence of quality economic, political and institutional governance. Particularly, we find that control of corruption and political stability are keys for propelling Africa’s tourism sector to contribute to shared income distribution across the continent. Policy recommendations are provided in line with SDG 10 and Aspirations 1 and 3 of Africa’s Agenda 2063. Keywords: Africa; Corruption; Governance; Income Inequality; Tourism Development; Tourism Receipts (search for similar items in EconPapers) Forthcoming: Current Issues in Tourism Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:exs:wpaper:21/092 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS) |
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