Table of Contents

Section 1: Voice, Choice and Growth 1. Voice, Choice and Growth through Creative Industries: Towards a New Development Agenda Section 2: Prospects and Perils 2. Opportunities Presented and Threats Posed by the Digital Production/Distribution Revolution 3. Financing Creative Industries in Developing Country Contexts 4. Film Culture and Industry in Burkina Faso 5. The Music Industry and its Potential Role in Local Economic Development: The Case of Senegal 6. The Sounds of Brazil: The Popular Music and the Music Industry 7. The Audio-visual Sector in India 8. Copyright-based Industries in Arab Countries 9. The IPRs and the Music Industry in the Caribbean Section 3: Policy Responses 10. Promoting Creative Industries: Public Policies in Support of Film, Music and Broadcasting 11. Targeting Creativity through the Intermediary: Regional and Local Approaches in the UK and Beyond 12. The Policy Parameters

About the Author

Diana Barrowclough and Zeljka Kozul-Wright are based at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Reviews

". . . the book provides important information . . . is undeniably an invaluable resource. I heartily recommend it to all: cultural professionals, economists and policy makers, as well as those interested in industrial organization, development policy, evolutionary economics and the creative industries." – Komlan Agbo, in Journal of Cultural Economics, 2009, Vol. 33