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Advances in Applied Sociology 2018

Cross-Group Knowledge Transfer and Capacity-Building for the Poor: A Case Study of Tourism Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Guangdong Province, China

DOI: 10.4236/aasoci.2018.87030, PP. 495-516

Yong Rao, Shengsheng Chen

Keywords: Tourism Targeted Poverty Alleviation, Cross-Group Knowledge Transfer, Capacity-Building of the Poor, Case Study

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This paper mainly explored the strategies of capacity-building for the poor in the early stage of tourism development in poverty-stricken areas. Given the requirements of tourism poverty alleviation, the capacity-building strategies during the transition period need to focus on non-school-age and impoverished population, and integrate both explicit and tacit knowledge, as well as absorb foreign advanced knowledge adequately, while some limitations still exist in the literatures now. In this paper, we analyzed the cross-group knowledge transfer process of “migrant workers-local poor people” to explore the capacity-building strategies that meet various requirements during the transitional period for the poor.

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