Creative Economy: A Feasible Development Option

TABLE2.1.BCONTINUEDIMPORTS (in millions of $)Economic group andcountry/territory2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008Malaysia 2,790 2,922 1,899 1,855 1,431 1,996 1,177Mali 0 0 14 15 16 6 -Mauritius 10 14 21 31 34 39 40Mexico 260 221 225 275 326 259 227Mongolia - 0 - 0 2 - -Morocco - - - - - - 28Mozambique 65 46 0 18 84 82 47Myanmar 0 6 3 3 7 - -Namibia 24 20 62 46 45 31 44Netherlands Antilles 1 3 2 2 2 2 -New Caledonia 6 8 11 38 41 56 72Niger 0 1 0 0 6 0 -Occupied Palestinian territory 38 36 16 18 18 69 -Pakistan 71 55 23 51 38 68 91Panama - - - 25 4 - -Papua New Guinea - - 0 0 - - -Paraguay 5 7 3 1 0 1 1Peru - - - - - - 16Philippines 17 15 15 9 545 39 39Republic of Moldova 8 4 9 10 4 6 9Rwanda - - - - 7 3 2Samoa - - 0 1 0 0 -Senegal 0 3 3 1 3 3 -Sierra Leone 1 1 2 0 1 1 2Singapore 265 241 268 279 261 278 312Solomon Islands 0 0 0 0 0 - -South Africa 3 3 5 8 9 10 10Sudan - 0 - - - 5 4Swaziland 8 3 38 27 24 49 -Syrian Arab Republic - - 27 21 32 20 -Togo 0 - 0 0 0 0 -Tonga 0 0 0 0 0 1 -Tunisia 5 4 6 6 10 7 11Turkey 207 117 186 107 140 158 235United Republic of Tanzania - 1 0 0 0 2 2Uruguay 18 10 7 10 9 10 10Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 147 135 266 296 385 461 886ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION 3,773 3,230 4,651 5,291 6,036 8,503 11,179Albania 7 8 30 107 117 119 82Armenia 5 6 7 8 9 10 14Azerbaijan - 5 5 5 6 8 12Belarus 6 8 39 61 16 105 123Bosnia and Herzegovina - - - - 4 4 5Croatia 296 379 488 537 615 645 737Georgia 1 2 2 2 1 13 37Kazakhstan 458 709 1,354 1,616 1,326 1,772 1,856Kyrgyzstan 2 5 8 25 41 33 47Montenegro - - - - - - 34Russian Federation 2,057 1,752 2,232 2,444 3,296 4,908 6,840Serbia - - - - - - 367Tajikistan 1 0 1 2 0 106 4The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 15 52 62 73 63 91 114Ukraine 926 303 424 413 542 689 906SOURCE: IMF Balance of Payments Statistics and UNCTAD calculations based on IMF Balance of Payments Statistics.NOTES: (1) “All creative services” is composed of the following categories of services: “advertising, market research” and “public opinion polling services”; “architectural, engineering and other technical services”; “researchand development services”; and “personal, cultural and recreational services”. “Audiovisual and related services” and “other personal, cultural and recreational services” are sub-items of “personal, cultural andrecreational services”.(2) The figures in this table cannot be used for international comparisons or ranking because most countries do not report all categories of creative services and the reported categories vary with countries.Therefore, the figures present only the aggregation of reported categories by country.- Data not available or not separately reported.Statistical Annex Part 2322CREATIVE ECONOMY REPORT 2010