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  "title": "Creative Industries a Development Opportunity",
  "publication": "IMF Podcasts, September 9, 2016",
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  "summary": "Digital music sales generated $15 billion in 2015 (Imaginechina/AP Images).",
  "publishDate": "2016-09-09",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Publication date: September 9, 2016\n- Episode focus: the development potential of cultural and creative industries\n- Central claim: a country’s cultural wealth presents a huge development opportunity (as advanced by Patrick Kabanda)"
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      "heading": "Key findings and statistics",
      "content": "- The United Nations estimates the global creative economy in 2011 generated more than $600 billion.\n- Digital music sales generated $15 billion in 2015.\n- Patrick Kabanda is the author of \"Music Going for a Song\" published in the September 2016 edition of Finance & Development Magazine."
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      "heading": "Guests and contributors",
      "content": "- Guest: Patrick Kabanda, Consultant for the office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank\n- Behind the mic:\n  - Bruce Edwards — International Monetary Fund. Bruce Edwards produces the IMF podcast program; he is an award-winning audio producer and journalist who has covered armed conflicts, social unrest, and natural disasters from all corners of the world.\n  - Rhoda Metcalfe — independent journalist and audio producer."
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      "heading": "Implications highlighted",
      "content": "- Cultural and creative sectors represent a significant economic opportunity for development, as emphasized by the guest.\n- The scale of the global creative economy and recent digital music revenues point to measurable market value within creative industries."
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