Many qualitiy studies and policies have for many years addressed the relationship between culture and economics. However, this relationship has taken different forms in different countries and regions. Furthermore, initially, studies took a sociological or, in any case, theoretical, approach. It is only relatively recently that the cultural sector has been formally studied from the perspective of economics and statistics.

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