South African cultural observatory for the promotion of arts and culture

South African Cultural Observatory,
15 July 2002, South Africa

This paper tries to define culture and explore arguments about why culture is important. Different cultural characteristics that affect economic growth, the quality of existing cultural statistics in South Africa and potential indicators of culture’s contribution to an economy are looked at.

http://www.culturalobservatory.org.za/pdf_files/econ_of_culture.pdf