When creativity dies: creative economy in Brazil’s 2018 presidential election
International Journal of Development Research
When creativity dies: creative economy in Brazil’s 2018 presidential election
Received 17th December, 2018; Received in revised form 21st January, 2019; Accepted 26th February, 2019; Published online 29th March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Dr. Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The aims are to identify the main proposals by Brazil’s 2018 presidential candidates on issues related to creative economy in their government plans and programs andexamine the similarities and differences in the treatment of these issues in the documents. The central argument points out that there has been little deepening and detailing of the proposals, which reveals that, for political parties, creative economy would not be the engine of national development. Although some candidates brought general references to the potential of creative economy in expanding cultural access and generating income and employment, the proposals remained vague and imprecise and, in certain situations, they did not even exist.
