Cointégration et causalité entre développement touristique, croissance économique et réduction de la pauvreté : cas de Haïti

• Main Author: Louis Dupont
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université des Antilles 2009-12-01
• Series: Études Caribéennes
• Subjects: tourism; economic growth; cointegration technique; causality
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/3780

This study, using cointegration and causality tests, investigates the relationship among tourism development, economic expansion, and poverty reduction in Haiti. fmpirical studies have shown that the three variables are cointegrated with a long-run stable relationship among the three. At 5% level, the causality tests suggest one-way Granger causal relation between economic growth and tourism development, and between poverty reduction and tourism development. On the other hand, the paper presents arguments in support of the proposition that poverty reduction as a source of tourism development, offers a convincing case for the use of policy instruments focused to drive a tourism-based economy.