| Culture is both the context for development as well as the missing factor in policies for development. Although such interactions have long been recognized as essential, there has been no worldwide analysis in this field on which new policies could be based. The publication by UNESCO of a World Culture Report was the first recommendation of the Report of the World Commission on Culture and Development,Our Creative Diversity. Its task is to survey recent trends in culture and development, monitor events affecting the state of cultures worldwide, construct quantitative cultural indicators, highlight good cultural practices and policies, and analyse specific themes of general importance accompanied by policy suggestions. Mr Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO, agreed that it should be published on a biannual basis by UNESCO, being written by an independent team of scholars.
The report sets out to be as intercultural as possible in that authors from many different cultures have been invited to contribute to it. The World Culture Report will open up a new field in analytical and quantitative thinking on the relationship between culture and development while providing scientific and creative inputs that inform policy makers. This requires tasks of an exploratory nature, both conceptually and in terms of creating quantitative indicators.
In view of the fact that the report is breaking new ground, many of its findings and proposals should be regarded as preliminary in nature. It is vital none the less that governments, intellectuals, artists and cultural activists should review and utilize these findings for activities and policies that have practical outcomes.
Quantitative indicators and indices of culture and development should be tried and tested in order to come up with more precise statistical categories and methodologies to enable governments to collect the necessary data in this field.
Lourdes Arizpe
Director of Research
Last update 07/06/2001
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Part One:
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Culture and economic development
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Chapter 1.
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Culture and economic development (J. Mohan Rao)
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Global sociocultural processes
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Chapter 2.
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Equal yet different (Alain Touraine)
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Chapter 3.
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Cultural possibilities (Robert Borofsky)
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Chapter 4.
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Cultural rights and indigenous peoples: the Sami Experience (Ole Henrik Magga)
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Chapter 5.
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Culture and Indigenous Rights (Henriette Rasmussen & Inger Sjoerslev)
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Chapter 6.
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Culture and sustainability (Melissa A. Leach)
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Chapter 7.
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Cities, culture, and globalization
(Elizabeth Jelin)
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Chapter 8.
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Culture and democracy (Adam Pzreworski)
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Chapter 9.
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Culture, ethics and globalization (Yoro K. Fall)
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Creativity, markets and cultural policies
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Chapter 10.
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Cultural policy options in the context of globalization (Nestor Garcia Canclini)
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Chapter 11.
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Global creativity and the arts
(Catherine R. Stimpson, Homi Bhabha)
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Chapter 12.
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The role of music in international trade and economic development
(David Throsby)
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Chapter 13.
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Cultural and economic development through copyright in the information society
(Milagros del Corral, Salah Abada)
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Chapter 14.
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International standards for cultural heritage (Lyndel Prott)
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Chapter 15.
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Heritage and Cyberculture: what cultural content for what cyberculture? (Isabelle Vinson)
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Public opinion and global ethics
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Chapter 16.
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Public opinion and global ethics:
a descriptive study of existing survey data (Adriaan van der Staay)
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Methodology: building cultural indicators
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Chapter 17.
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Culture, freedom and independence (Amartya Sen)
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Policy implications
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Recasting cultural policy
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Statistical Tables and Cultural Indicators
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Measuring culture: Prospects and Limits (Leo Goldstone)
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List of Statistical Tables and Culture Indicators
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Statistical Tables
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Index and Sources of the Culture Indicators
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Last update 11/10/01
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