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"As average population growth slowed globally over the last century, the range of national demographic experiences actually widened. Growth rates have remained high in many countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, and Iraq, while they have plummeted in others including Italy, South Korea, and Thailand."
Creator(s): Mary Mederios Kent and Carl Haub | Date Published: 2005-12
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"Early in June, the Hivos Culture Fund organised the event Beyond Diversity: Moving towards MDG no. 9. The sense and nonsense of making culture the ninth millennium goal were reviewed during workshops and discussions."
Creator(s): The Power of Culture | Date Published: 2005-09
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"these regions also may face economic development challenges such as geographic isolation from metropolitan areas, infrastructure deficiencies, poor links with metropolitan and global markets, and the flight of skilled human resources to metropolitan regions. States have successfully addressed these challenges through the arts."
Creator(s): National Governors Association, Center for Best Practices | Date Published: 2005-08-30
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"Public and private funding of the arts can be combined to make a sum greater than the parts. This new frontier of financing the arts will promote the value of localism, linking the arts to a specific community, by using public resources to promote these values."
Creator(s): Steven J. Tepper | Date Published: 2005-03
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"In the world of the 21st century, the achievement of human security through sustainable and equitable development will be increasingly fundamental to foreign policy, international peace, and global commerce. Therefore, a clear set of development objectives must underpin our international policies in all other areas—diplomacy, defence and commerce."
Creator(s): The North - South Institute (NSI) | Date Published: 2005-01
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"This consultation is about the shares for the causes of arts and film, and heritage, and sport."
Creator(s): Department of Culture, Media and Sport | Date Published: 2005
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"Forward by Roy Culpeper , About the 2005 CDR by John W. Foster, The Millennium Declaration & the Millennium Development Goals by John W. Foster."
Creator(s): The North - South Institute (NSI) | Date Published: 2005
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« On estime qu’il existerait en Afrique entre 1200 et 2500 langues en compétition, voire en conflit. Un épouvantail pour les décideurs ! En outre, la peur de l’ethnisation à outrance susceptible d’entraîner des fractures nationales génératrices de conflits et la hantise d’une ghettoïsation et de l’immobilisme face à la mobilité croissante et à la mondialisation, poussent les décideurs politiques en Afrique à se détourner de leurs langues dans les systèmes éducatifs et à chercher le salut, le ciment national et l’ouverture aux autres et à la technologie dans l’utilisation de langues internationales comme langues officielles et media d’instruction. »
Creator(s): Association pour le développement de l'éducation en Afrique [ADEA] | Date Published: 2005
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"Culture and Regeneration looks at the evidence for the value of culture in contributing to social, environmental and economic regeneration."
Creator(s): COMEDIA | Date Published: 2004-10
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"The aim of this report is to summarize the objectives, proceedings, and major outcomes of the National Summit on Innovation and Learning, held on November 18–19, 2002, at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, in Toronto, Ontario."
Creator(s): Human Resources Development Canada | Date Published: 2004-06-15
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"Sustainable development is a priority for Canadian Heritage. This document — our Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) for the years from 2004 to 2006 — provides us with an opportunity to share our perspective on this important objective."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2004
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"This booklet about the role of culture in development and cooperation efforts was published by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). It contains background information, programme guidelines, and lessons learned, as well as project examples from Mali, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Romania, Macedonia, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan."
Creator(s): Development Gateway | Date Published: 2003-11-20
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« Certaines questions relatives au financement privé des arts et des lettres sont examinées dans ce numéro notamment : quelle est l’importance du financement privé dans l’ensemble des revenus des organismes artistiques? »
Creator(s): Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec | Date Published: 2003-07
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"The CIP addresses not-for-profit Canadian professional artistic and heritage organizations that are Canada-wide in scope and which encourage the participation of artists and reach an audience in more than one province or territory."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2003-03-14
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"The year 2003 marks the 56th anniversary of the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency and the 60th year of continuous basic intelligence support to the US Government by The World Factbook and its two predecessor programs."
Creator(s): Central Intelligence Agency | Date Published: 2003
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"This report summarizes the main issues and themes explored at the 2002 CCRN colloquium and offers suggestions for continuing research and debate in this area."
Creator(s): 2002 Canadian Cultural Research Network Colloquium | Date Published: 2002-06-01
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"The Department of Canadian Heritage of the Government of Canada hosted a capacity-building workshop on arts and cultural policy for development in December 2000."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2001-03
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"The Nova Scotia Culture Sector Strategy is a unique document, possibly the first such undertaking in Canada."
Creator(s): The Nova Scotia Culture Sector Strategy | Date Published: 1999-09-30
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"The primary purpose of this paper is to explore very briefly and in a broad way a relatively unchartered area: the role modern technology, particularly in transportation and communications, plays in cultural heritage and ethnic identity maintenance (or change) among specific groups, using overseas South Asian groups as a case in point."
Creator(s): Dhiru Patel, Canadian Identity Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1999-06-01
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"The purpose of this note is to assist the Department in the development of a national cultural policy framework by providing information and analysis of cultural policies in several Canadian provinces."
Creator(s): Terrence Cowl | Date Published: 1996-08-20
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"In many jurisdictions and regardless of the welfare regime to which they belong, social policy communities now often focus on “new social risks.” They also consider that these risks call for investments - in human capital, in lifelong learning, in early childhood services, in training, and so on – and this despite a clear preference for controlling if not reducing state spending."
Creator(s): Jane Jenson, Denis Saint-Martin, Départment de science politique Université de Montréal | Date Published: 2005-06
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« Les objectifs du réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture, tourisme, développement » insistent, dans ce cadre général, sur la coopération universitaire dans les domaines de la recherche, de la formation, de la documentation, de l’expertise, afin de favoriser les échanges d’expériences et les transferts de connaissances. »
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 2005-04-27
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"The process of globalization marks a change in the dynamics of political, economic and social correlations at all territorial levels. The change in the function of nation states and, in parallel with it, the increasing importance of regional levels is one of the most striking developments in this context."
Creator(s): Raimund Minichbauer, eipcp | Date Published: 2004-10-31
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« Le portrait socioéconomique des artistes, rendu public le 24 février 2004, faisait la démonstration que plusieurs artistes et créateurs subsistent dans une précarité économique ou occupent un double emploi pour arriver à vivre décemment. On y remarque aussi d’importantes fluctuations de revenus. »
Creator(s): Ministère de la Culture et des Communications - Gouvernement du Québec | Date Published: 2004-06
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"This essay by Tessa Jowell, British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, examines the relationship between Government and the cultural sector."
Creator(s): Tessa Jowell, British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | Date Published: 2004-05
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"The Canadian Forum on Cultural Enterprise: When Culture Talks Business was held in Paris from January 12 to 14 and can already be described as a success — a multi-sector trade first for the arts and cultural sector in Canada and around the world. The Forum drew 600 participants."
Creator(s): The Canadian Forum on Cultural Entreprise | Date Published: 2004-01-12
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"In Canada as in the rest of the world, it is generally recognized that culture is at the heart of social vitality and identity. In spite of this, however, decision-makers have been slow in recognizing the major impact of cultural activities on the provincial, regional, and national economies."
Creator(s): Nicole Barrieau, The Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development | Date Published: 2004
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"The research focuses on the general directions of cultural policy in Ukraine, agents and instruments of cultural policy (administration, financing, legislation), cultural developments and international cultural cooperation issues."
Creator(s): Olexandr Butsenko | Date Published: 2004
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"Keynote 3 – New Connections to Support the Arts, Presented during the Second World Summit on the Arts and Culture, November 2003 in Singapore."
Creator(s): Margaret Jane Wyszomirski | Date Published: 2003-11
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"Panel 2: Culture & Development: The Place of the Arts, Presented during the Second World Summit of Arts and Culture, November 2003 in Singapore."
Creator(s): Iman Al-Hindawi | Date Published: 2003-11
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"Keynote 1: Global Trends: Arts, People & Policy, Presented during the Second World Summit of Arts and Culture, November 2003 in Singapore."
Creator(s): Ho Kwon Ping | Date Published: 2003-11
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"This Blue Plate Special reports the main points of a presentation given to Canadian Heritage by Geoffey Brown (EUCLID International) and Greg Baeker (EUCLID Canada) on the developments that are occurring within cultural policy specifically the increasing importance of creative industries."
Creator(s): Maureen Williams | Date Published: 2003-05-01
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"Politics matter for human development. Reducing poverty depends as much on whether poor people have political power as on their opportunities for economic progress."
Creator(s): United Nations Development Programme, 2003 | Date Published: 2003
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"This paper is intended as a "primer" on the subject of social cohesion and as a summary of what we know about it so far."
Creator(s): M. Sharon Jeannotte, Dick Stanley, Ravi Pendakur, Bruce Jamieson, Maureen Williams and Amanda Aizlewood | Date Published: 2002-02-11
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"Culture, as stated by the World Conference on Cultural Policies in Mexico City in 1982, is a leading source of intellectual renewal and human growth, and can be understood as embracing all creative activity, not only the traditional, or 'high', arts but popular mass culture as well."
Creator(s): Lia Ghilardi (Noema Research and Planning Ltd, London) | Date Published: 2002
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"The study examines the institutional capacities for intellectual property policy making, administration and enforcement which exist in poor countries and the recent technical co-operation programmes which have sought to re-enforce them."
Creator(s): Tom Pengelly & Mart Leesti | Date Published: 2002
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"Over the last four years, the Social Cohesion Network has made considerable progress on its horizontal research program."
Creator(s): Dick Stanley | Date Published: 2001-02-19
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"The Symposium entitled Multiculturalism: a dialogue in process - the Greek and Canadian paradigm took place at the History Centre of Thessaloniki, November 8-10, 2000."
Creator(s): Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Canadian Embassy, with support from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and DFAIT | Date Published: 2000-11-08
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"The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights."
Creator(s): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | Date Published: 2000-08-17
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"Aware of the need to delve further into the multi-layered concepts of cultural diversity, conflict resolution and pluralism, UNESCO proposes this second edition of the World Culture Report, in which experts, statisticians and artists provide information and analysis and propose new concepts, insights and policy recommendations."
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 2000
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"Provides a progress report on the first 18 months of the Social Cohesion Network's research activities, draws some preliminary conclusions and outlines the research priorities and next steps of the Network."
Creator(s): Social Cohesion Network | Date Published: 1998-11-01
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"This paper is a scan of innovative work in arts administration or cultural management1 education now underway in Canada and other relevant jurisdictions. Time and resources have not allowed a detailed content review of individual programs in Canada or elsewhere. Secondary sources were used and have provided useful information on developments and trends in various jurisdictions."
Creator(s): Applied Cultural Principles (ACP): Learning and Cultural Development | Date Published: 1995-03-31
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