Tourism’s impact on human rights: Travel’s best souvenir a case study in Ngwe Saung, Myanmar by E. Pritchard, Ashley

“…Results show that tourism development reduced poverty significantly, elevating participants from extreme poverty to a level well above subsistence, unattainable without the jobs and income that tourism generated.…”
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The landscape of SME financing and sustainability of SMEs in Bangladesh by Md Alamgir,

“…Since this sector is labor-intensive with short gestation period, it is capable of increasing national income as well as rapid employment generation of the marginalized people; achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) especially eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, gender equality and women empowerment.SME sector has played a vital role in economic development of some developed countries of Asia especially Japan and Malaysia. …”
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Mapping poverty hot spots in Peninsular Malaysia using spatial autocorrelation analysis by Majid, M. Rafee, Jaffar, Abdul Razak, Che Man, Noordini, Vaziri, Mehdrad, Sulemana, Mohamed

“…In September 2000 The Millennium Summit adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty with a deadline of 2015. Eight Millennium Development Goals were formulated of which the eradication of poverty given top priority. …”
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