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A measure of the economic dependence of countries on tourism
El principal objetivo de este estudio fue construir un índice de dependencia económica del turismo para una muestra de 144 países y el período comprendido entre 1995 y 2019. A continuación, analizamos la convergencia en ... -
A multi-criteria assessment of the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5A
Muñoz, María M.; Casquero-Tomás, Antonio; Ortega-Aguaza, Bienvenido
; Sanjuán-Solís, Jesús Carlos (2015-07-23)
Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio de las Naciones Unidas pretenden centrar la atención en la mejora de los indicadores de pobreza, educación, salud, igualdad de género y desarrollo sostenible de los países. En este ... -
An analysis of regional economic vulnerability through the lens of tourism dependence: The case of Spain.
The main aim of this piece of work is to provide evidence of the existence of regions in Spain in which the excessive dependence on tourism is conditioning their long-term economic development possibilities, placing their ... -
An analysis of the impact of implementing Revenue Management Systems on hotel operational performance
Ortega-Aguaza, Bienvenido (2013-09-24)
The aim of this paper was to analyse the degree to which hotels whose managers employ a Revenue Management System (RMS) as a strategy to increase demand outperform other non-RMS-user establishments. This analysis was based ... -
An empirical analysis of the efficiency in reducing child mortality (Millennium Development Goal 4)
The main aim of this article is to analyse, at the macro-level, why some countries are more efficient in converting inputs (physicians density and relative total health expenditure) into both a specific health-output ... -
An index of the economic dependence on tourism.
Ortega-Aguaza, Bienvenido; Ribeiro, Manuel Alector (Sage, 2024-06-18)
This study proposes a methodology to construct a Tourism Economic Dependence Index for a sample of 144 countries spanning the period 1995–2019. This index aims to serve as a summary measure of countries’ dependence on ... -
Calidad y productividad en el sector hotelero andaluz
Benavides-Chicón, Carlos Guillermo (Universidad de Málaga, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2012)
Este trabajo estudia la relación existente entre la calidad en establecimientos hoteleros y la productividad del trabajo. Para ello, se parte del estudio de la problemática del tratamiento de la productividad en hoteles. ... -
Do Illicit Financial Flows Hurt Basic Healthcare Provision? The Case of Infant Vaccination Coverage in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Since 1980, developing countries have lost US$16.3 trillion dollars through broad leakages in the balance of payments, trade misinvoicing, and unrecorded financial transfers. Moreover, according to the Global Financial ... -
How to make innovation policies more effective: the challenge of considering the institutional context
The necessity to optimise the processes of design and implementation of instruments that stimulate R+D+i is a matter of urgency due to both the existing public sector budget constraints and the dubious effectiveness of ... -
Illicit financial flows and the provision of child and maternal health services in low and middle-income countries
Ortega-Aguaza, Bienvenido; Sanjuán-Solís, Jesús Carlos; Casquero-Tomás, Antonio (BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2020)
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Illicit financial flows in low- and middle-income countries: A hindrance to human development.
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are cross-border transfers of funds that are illegally earned, transferred, or utilized. Although it is widely recognised that these flows drain the scarce public resources available to finance ... -
Illicit Financial Flows: Another Road Block to Human Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Ortega-Aguaza, Bienvenido; Sanjuán-Solís, Jesús Carlos; Casquero-Tomás, Antonio (Springer Nature, 2019-03-30)
This article analysed the relationship between illicit inancial lows (IFFs) and human development, as measured with the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), using data for 56 low- and middle-income countries for ... -
Impact of illicit financial flows on infant vaccination coverage in developing countries.
Objectives This paper analysed the impact of illicit financial flows (IFFs) on the infant immunisation coverage rate as a first step in analysing the social costs of IFFs in developing countries. Background The ... -
Relationships between foreign direct investment and official development assistance with trade-related illicit financial flows. Evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Ortega-Aguaza, Bienvenido; Sanjuán-Solís, Jesús Carlos (Emerald, 2023-03-17)
Purpose This paper aims to analyse empirically the association between flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), net official development assistance (ODA) inflows and trade-related illicit financial outflows. Design/me ... -
Social costs of illicit financial flows in low- and middle-income countries: the case of infant vaccination coverage
Ortega-Aguaza, Bienvenido; Sanjuán-Solís, Jesús Carlos; Casquero-Tomás, Antonio (Oxford University Press, 2017)
The liberalization of capital flows is generally associated with prospects of higher growth. However, in developing countries, opening the capital account may also facilitate the flow of capital out of the country through ... -
Socio-economic determinants of efficiency in reducing child mortality in developing countries
Efficiency issues in health investments have received increasing attention, mainly as a result of the growing amount of resources invested in developing countries and their mixed impacts on outcomes. The empirical ...