CREATIVE ECONOMY as a development strategy: a view of developing countries [...]... inequality in the sharing of generated benefits Sharada Ramanathan unveils a critical panorama of creative economy in India, merging the cultural, social, economic, and political spheres combining reason and poetry Argentine Facundo Solanas presents a critical vision on the use of the concept Pernille Askerud and Máté Kovács had a continental mission, and which was splendidly accomplished: to unravel... wellbeing, and participation.… A far-reaching strategy emphasizes the integrated importance of human and social capital and their relationship to enhancing and preserving the harmony and stability of society This proposal is echoed in Sharada Ramanathan’s text, when she refers to the perception of India as the largest market there is, together with China, for globalized products 27 28 Ana Carla Fonseca Reis... OAKLEY, op cit., 16 29 30 Ana Carla Fonseca Reis It is a universal panorama: the dazzling colors of African fabrics, of the ‘Costa cloths,’ as they used to be called in Brazil, the endless tonalities of the Indian saris, the masks and sculptures of Mali, of Burkina, of the Congo, of Gabon, the paintings from Haiti, from south Africa, the cinema from Iran, the poetry of the cordel literature, popular... create that, from time immemorial, has nourished the trade of silk, damask, brocades, incense, perfumes, and spices between the East and the West, the North and the South Originality in our days is the stunning scale of multiplication of these contacts, and the emergence of a mass public, of millions of individuals who can afford and are willing to pay to attend a concert of Indian cithara or of Tuareg... stress creative economy? Because in the last decade, few concepts have been more debated, less defined, and hardly given consideration in a screened, translated, and reinterpreted fashion for countries living different cultural, social, and economic contexts, in a myriad of discussion points: creative cities, creative 12 industries, creative economy, creative clusters, creative class, and creative assets... people as to the dilemmas we face today have accepted to share their vision on creative economy as developmental strategy They are thinkers who refuse to accept the perpetuity of paradigms and who oppose, in the words of Facundo Solanas, to: the stigmatization that seems to doom the predestined and insurmountable permanence in that intermediate path between the underdevelopment and development of the... International Forum on 7 Available at http://www.creativeindustriesobservatory.com Available at http://www.creativecity.ca 9 In REIS, Economia da cultura e desenvolvimento sustentável, p XXI 8 19 20 Ana Carla Fonseca Reis Creative Industries”, organized in 2005, and of a number of initiatives to promote awareness and the expansion of creative markets, pursued, since then, under the auspices of the... the articulation of a social, economic, and political pact between the public and private sectors, civil society, the academic world, and multilateral organizations, in which each one plays a definite role Although creativity is as ubiquitous as oxygen, the creative economy cannot materialize by spontaneous combustion To achieve this, the involvement of various agents is essential 35 36 Ana Carla Fonseca... forward At a macro level, within the scope of nations classified as developing countries, one can find from powers, such as China, to small African countries, which are regulated by tribal and community relations In spite of their simple economy, several of the paradigmatic creative phenomena in world terms come from regions that have been receiving poor attention, such as the audiovisual in Nigeria... urban socioeconomic set, based on local specifics, such as Guaramiranga, with its Jazz and Blues Festival, and Paraty, with FLIP (the International Literary Festival of Paraty) as examples (read text by Ana Carla Fonseca Reis) There should be further discussions about creative cities, considering the growing interest they have triggered among city planners, sociologists, and economists, in a debate . Solanas Creative economy as a strategy for Jamaica and the Caribbean growth and wealth generation Andrea M. Davis ASIA Creative economy as a development strategy. editor CREATIVE ECONOMY as a development strategy: a view of developing countries Creative economy : as a development strategy : a view of developing countires