This study aims to investigate the effect of income distribution on poverty reduction and the effect of income distribution on growth elasticity of poverty reduction. It uses panel data of 70 countries during 2001-2010 provided by the World Bank. It applies panel data analysis both fixed effect...

This paper shows the results from Suriya (2011) that tourism-induced activities especially souvenir production can distribute income to the poor and then reduce poverty in a village which operates community-based tourism. The reason is that souvenir production requires many unskillful labors....