The effect of international visitors on poverty alleviation in Mexico: an approach from the misery index

Tourism and Economic Misery: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Mexico

“…Concerning the relationship between tourism and the MI, as mentioned before, Sánchez (2022a) found that international visitors have had a negative impact on the compensated misery index utilized by Hortalà and Rey (2011). However, the nature of the relationship between tourism GDP and Okun's MI is not clear.…”

“…The MI is defined as the unweighted sum of unemployment and inflation rates (Cohen et al 2014;Dornbusch et al 2002;Tule et al 2017). In Equation (1), following Sánchez (2022a), represents the unemployment rate and ̇ represents the inflation rate:…”

“…Concerning the relationship between tourism and the MI, it is important to mention that Sánchez (2022a) found that, in the short term, international visitors, defined as the sum of international excursionists and tourists, have a negative effect on the compensated MI utilized by Hortalà and Rey (2011), which consists of subtracting the GDP growth rate from Okun's MI. However, to the best of my knowledge, this is the first document analyzing the effect of tourism GDP on Okun's MI and offering a theoretical framework on the relationship between such variables.…”

Tourism poverty alleviation hotspots in China: Topic evolution and sustainable development

“…Some scholars have also carried out research on the relationship between tourism and poverty reduction (Dossou et al, 2021; Mutana & Mukwada, 2020; Oviedo‐Garc' ıa et al, 2019; Pan et al, 2021; Winter & Kim, 2021; Zhao & Xia, 2020), the problem of income balance in tourism poverty alleviation (Feng et al, 2020; López, 2022; Shahbaz et al, 2020; Zhang, 2021), anti‐poverty (Geoffrey Deladem et al, 2021), the number of tourism and hotel companies (Toerien, 2020), poverty alleviation through urbanization (Renuka et al, 2021), and industrial transformation and upgrading (Xue & Kerstetter, 2019).…”