CULTURAL TRADE IMBALANCE – UNESCO
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries are failing to exploit the demand for cultural products, says a UNESCO Institute for Statistics report, which notes Britain, the USA and China produced 40% of the world's cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than 4%. It looked at printed, recorded and audiovisual media, plus visual arts. *http://www.unesco.org/bpi/pdf/culdivreport_en.pdf
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DEVELOPING countries are failing to exploit the demand for cultural products, says a UNESCO Institute for Statistics report, which notes Britain, the USA and China produced 40% of the world's cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than 4%. It looked at printed, recorded and audiovisual media, plus visual arts. *http://www.unesco.org/bpi/pdf/culdivreport_en.pdf
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