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Statistics on Cultural Industries - International Trade Centre

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cultural industries. This informati<strong>on</strong> will, in turn, facilitate evidence-based policy development.In doing so, the creative and cultural industries can be more effectively used as tools to targetpoverty reducti<strong>on</strong> and community regenerati<strong>on</strong>, while at the same time addressing the creativeec<strong>on</strong>omic divide between North and South, East and West.The interagency collaborati<strong>on</strong> which produced this data framework document has fostered ac<strong>on</strong>sensus am<strong>on</strong>g internati<strong>on</strong>al development agencies regarding the need for a co-ordinatedapproach to assist countries to develop their statistical capacities within United Nati<strong>on</strong>s DevelopmentAssistance Frameworks (UNDAF) and the emerging One UN nati<strong>on</strong>al strategies. UNESCO looksforward to c<strong>on</strong>tinued close co-operati<strong>on</strong> with our UN partners, WIPO, UNIDO and UNDP, in theimplementati<strong>on</strong> of nati<strong>on</strong>al projects based <strong>on</strong> this framework for the collecti<strong>on</strong> and analysis ofcultural industry statistics.I would like to thank all of our partners and collaborators who have worked to establish thisstatistical framework, in particular UNESCO lead c<strong>on</strong>sultant, Pernille Askerud; UNESCO Instituteof <str<strong>on</strong>g>Statistics</str<strong>on</strong>g> Regi<strong>on</strong>al Advisor for Asia and the Pacific, Ko-chih Tung; WIPO Acting Director of theCreative <strong>Industries</strong> Divisi<strong>on</strong>, Dimiter Gantchev; UNIDO Chief Statistician, Tetsuo Yamada; andDesm<strong>on</strong>d Hui, Director of the <strong>Centre</strong> for <strong>Cultural</strong> Policy Research of the University of H<strong>on</strong>g K<strong>on</strong>g.Their sustained efforts over more than eighteen m<strong>on</strong>ths of meetings of the Interagency TechnicalWorking Group <strong>on</strong> <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Industries</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Statistics</str<strong>on</strong>g> dem<strong>on</strong>strated the importance members of the UNDevelopment Assistance Group place <strong>on</strong> the need for reliable statistics <strong>on</strong> the cultural industries,and their commitment to ensure that this informati<strong>on</strong> will be available through the implementati<strong>on</strong>of nati<strong>on</strong>al capacity building projects.Richard EngelhardtUNESCO Regi<strong>on</strong>al Advisor for Culturein Asia and the Pacific

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