Cultural goods, an economic driver in the digital age (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) A new report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), The Globalisation of Cultural Trade: A Shift in Cultural Consumption--International flows of cultural goods and services 2004-2013, takes an in-depth look at the export and import of cultural goods and services around the world. 'Trade in cultural goods totaled $US212.8 billion in 2013, nearly double the amount in 2004,' said Silvia Montoya, Director of the UIS. 'This is further evidence of the...