Robertico Croes
Assessing Tourism Development from Sen’s Capability Approach
University of Central Florida
purpose study assess tourism development context sens capability approach study developed model investigate relationship tourism development human development focusing two countries nicaragua costa rica study applied cointegration technique based granger representation theorem overall tourism development human development reveals tenuous relationship cases reflecting threshold effect importance tourism growth merited distribution benefits extent tourism receipts allocated support human development public health education safety etc rising incomes necessarily translate human development performance thereby rendering support sens contention wellbeing measured instrumental antecedents income alone private incomes tourism expansion seem matter lower levels human development