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Tourism for Economic Development in Africa
Get PDFTourism should be a growing area of economic potential and interest to African countries. Tourism development in Africa could be pursued within an overall services development strategy that builds complementarities and linkages with other productive sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing and that contributes to jobs and exports. Given the complexity of Africa's development challenges and the necessity to create formal jobs to reduce poverty, as illustrated in the African Union Agenda 2063, African countries should exploit all economic opportunities including harnessing the potential of tourism as a driver for economic growth and sustainable development. Policies are needed in four key areas in Africa to foster the development of tourism: improving tourism competitiveness, engaging in source market diversification, developing "brand" or niche tourism with local community involvement and integrating into the global tourism value chain, through greater use of ICT.
CEPAL Review no.104
No full textMacroeconomy for development: countercyclical policies and production sector transformation / José Antonio Ocampo. -- Latin America: school bullying and academic achievement / Marcela Román and F. Javier Murillo. -- Tourism competitiveness in the Caribbean / Bineswaree Bolaky. -- Argentina: householdsand labour market changes (2004-2009) / Fernando Groisman. -- Argentine industry in the early twenty-first century (2003-2008) / Germán Herrera and Andrés Tavosnanska. -- Productivity differencesin Brazilian manufacturing firms,by industrial sector / Ronivaldo Steingraber and Flávio Gonçalves. -- Innovation, r&d investment and productivity in Chile / Roberto Álvarez, Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Lucas Navarro. -- The quality gap in Chile’s education system / José Luis Drago and Ricardo D. Paredes. -- Colombia: public capitaland manufacturing productivity / Sergio Jiménez R. and Jaime Sanaú V. / Maquila, currency misalignment and export-led growth in Mexico / Carlos A. Ibarra. -- Guidelines for contributors to CEPAL Review
Revista CEPAL no.104
No full textMacroeconomía para el desarrollo: políticas anticíclicas y transformación productiva / José Antonio Ocampo. -- América Latina: violencia entre estudiantes y desempeño escolar / Marcela Román y F. Javier Murillo. -- La competividad del turismo en el Caribe / Bineswaree Bolaky. -- Argentina: los hogares y los cambios en el mercado laboral (2004-2009) / Fernando Groisman. -- La industria argentina a comienzos del siglo XXI / Germán Herrera y Andrés Tavosnanska. -- Brasil: diferencias de productividad en las empresas según sector industrial / Ronivaldo Steingraber y Flávio Gonçalves. -- Innovación, investigación y desarrollo, y productividad en Chile / Roberto Álvarez, Claudio Bravo-Ortega y Lucas Navarro. -- La brecha de calidad en la educación chilena / José Luis Drago y Ricardo D. Paredes. -- Colombia: capital público y productividad de la industria manufacturer. -- Sergio Jiménez R. y Jaime Sanaú V. -- México: la maquila, el desajuste monetario y el crecimiento impulsado por las exportaciones / Carlos A. Ibarra. -- Orientaciones para los colaboradores de la Revista CEPAL
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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