The cultural sector’s productive chain in Brazil: estimation and structural change from 2011 to 2015

Abstract

The objective of this article is to estimate the productive chain of the cultural sector in the Brazilian economy between the years 2011 and 2015 and to evaluate its structural change throughout this period. We estimated the input-output matrices for the years 2011 and 2015 using the methodology developed by Guilhoto and Sesso (2005). The method developed by Dietzenbacher et al. (2005) was applied in order to detect the productive chain and its evolution during this period. The results indicate that the cultural productive chain expanded during this period, incorporating new connections and contributing positively to the Brazilian economy. The cultural sector was classified as a net user of inputs from the rest of the economy. It showed strong direct and indirect backward linkages, purchasing intermediary inputs from many activities. Within the cultural sector, the artistic, creative and entertainment activities were highlighted.

A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of Paraíba

“…In this new framework, culture would gain a central role in fostering both economic growth and social inclusion -an ambitious undertaking that was seemingly not "a mere cultural policy" but rather "a development policy based on culture" (De Marchi, 2014: 208). The efforts to develop the creative industries in Brazil, however, met with various shortcomings, from the Ministry of Culture's lack of funds to political discontinuity, which rendered initiatives in this direction "unstable and random" (Morrone andValiati, 2019: 1177). Moreover, these initiatives remained centralized in Rio de Janeiro, a city that has long been "a cultural center for Brazil given the historic concentration of government agencies and financial investment in cultural activities" (Marsh, 2016: 3028).…”