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GRP International Development regional lead for Africa prof. Franklin Lysk is taking part in in a panel discussion on climate change on the fringe of the main meetings at 2016 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank in Lusaka, where he was invited by the President as an observer.

The theme of this Special Issue was the research theme for the Warwick Global Research Priority in International Development [GRP-ID] for 2015.

The use of arts and culture as components in development initially evolved in the West through four decades of attempted re-industrialisation, where the service and communications sectors gradually replaced heavy industry within the priorities of national economic development policy. Since the 1970s, design, fashion and entertainment-based retail have played an inceasing role in national economic reproduction. This has been followed by the strategic deployment of arts and culture (particlarly festivals and large art museums) within urban economic development, fuelled in part by the rapid rise of global tourism.

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