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Notes ● 2053. Jagdish Bhagwati, “Why are Services Cheaper in the Poor Countries?” EconomicJournal 94, no. 374 (1984).4. Gustav Wolvaardt, “Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries inthe Health Sector,” in UNCTAD-WHO Joint Publication, International Tradein Health Services, p. 64.5. See, for example, P. Kotler, J. Bowen, and J. Makens, Marketing for Hospitalityand Tourism (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996); Jansen Verbeke, Marketing forTourism (London: Pitman, 1988); and C.A. Gunn, Tourism Planning: Basics,Concepts, Cases, (London: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1994).6. Duarte B. Morais, Michael J. Dorsch, and Sheila J. Backman, “Can TourismProviders Buy Their Customers’ Loyalty?” Journal of Travel Research 42, no. 3,2004.7. Karl Wolfgang Menck, “Medical Tourism—a New Market for DevelopingCountries,” Daily Travel and Tourism Newsletter, April 12, 2004, www.traveldailynews.com/styles_print.asp?central_id=388, accessed January 4, 2006.8. MediaCorp News, www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/health, accessed November29, 2005.9. Interview with Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Deputy Minister of Tourism,Government of Malaysia, Strategy, May 16, 2005, www.strategiy.com/interview.asp?id=20050516175521, accessed February 9, 2006.10. Joan Henderson, “Healthcare Tourism in Southeast Asia,” Tourism ReviewInternational 7, no. 3–4 (2004): p. 115.11. Menck, “Medical Tourism.”12. Saji Salam, “Positive Publicity is the Need of the Hour,” Express HealthcareManagement, www.expresscaremanagement.com/200605/views01.shtml,accessed September 9, 2006.13. Simonetta Zarrilli, “The Case of Brazil,” in UNCTAD-WHO Joint Publication,International Trade in Health Services, p. 180.14. Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists (New York: Basic Books, 2005),p. xiii.15. This follows from the pioneering work of Frederick Harbison, who wrote oneducation, human resource development, and growth, as well as Kierzkowski,who in his study of trade in health services underscored the importance ofhuman capital for the growth of the economy (Frederick Harbison, HumanResources as the Wealth of Nations (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973).16. Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists, p. 19.17. Peter Stalker, Workers Without Frontiers: The Impact of Globalization onInternational Migration (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000), p. xi.18. Erik Holm-Peterson, “Institutional Support for Tourism Development inAfrica,” in The Political Economy of Tourism Development in Africa, ed., PeterU. C. Dieke (New York: Cognizant Communication Co., 2000), p. 195.19. “RP Ready for Medical Tourism,” Global Nation, March 2004, www.inq7.net/globalnation/ser_ann/2004/mar/12-01.htm.20. Cited in Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat (New York: Farrar, Straus andGiroux, 2005), p. 106.