 New Evidence on Development and Cultural Trade: Diversification, Reconcentration and DominationWorking Papers from HAL Abstract: International trade of cultural goods has gained considerable importance over the last decade and has been dominated by rich countries. Meanwhile, trade in cultural goods is considered as a potential threat to cultural diversity, and development process is interpreted as a westernization process. One question arises: how does economic development impact on the cultural diversity of developing countries? This paper investigates the relationship between per capita income and the geographical diversity of cultural imports. Building on the recent literature about cultural diversity, a multi-dimensional approach is applied, taking into account the variety and the balance of cinema and music trade. The results evidence a nonlinear impact of development on the diversity of cultural imports. First, an increase in income leads to a diversification of the varieties consumed. Second, there exists a nonlinear relationship that translates into a reconcentration on a smaller number of partners in latter stage. Third, the reconcentration pattern appears to favour the share of American products in total cultural imports. Keywords: Diversité culturelle; Développement économique; Commerce audiovisuel; Cultural diversity; Economic development; Audio-visual trade (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-00778502 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from HAL |
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