This paper examines conditional convergence of Croatia’s counties in gross domestic product (GDP) and health care and tourism investment (HCTE) per working-age population. It presents estimation of the augmented Solow growth model suggested by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) to explain variation...

Does a country with a heavy dependence on a tourism economy have a tendency to succumb to more risk in a recession? With the shift from manufacturing-based economies in the developing world toward service-based industries, including tourism, a reliance on the tourism industry may erode economic...