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As a sample of the economic impact on Dominican including the production of artisanry that expresses the
cultural production, the latest research conducted on the Dominican cultural identity and the projection of the tan-
condition of the Cultural and Creative Industries in our gible and intangible cultural identity of the nation.” In like
country have shown that they represent 5.61% of the manner, the National Plan for Systemic Competitiveness
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) translated into over 246 and the Strategic Plan of the Ministry of Culture include
million dollars in sales annually, employing a average of the support of the cultural industries among its priorities of
132 thousand persons, the equivalent of 8% of the total Dominican cultural policy for the period 2008-2012.
jobs of the economically active Dominican population.
For the Ministry of Culture, it is a great satisfaction
Among the Cultural and Creative Industries, artisanry, to participate with the Ministry of Industry Commerce and
as an expression of the identity of the peoples, plays a fun- the ADEMI Foundation in the publication of this national
damental role in the transmission of values and in the eco- catalog of artisanry, whereby we set the foundations for
nomic development of its producers. the formulation of the development of programs, plans and
projects directed towards the Dominican artisanal sector
Thus, the National Strategy for Development the benefit of the cultural development of the Dominican
(Estrategia Nacional de Desarrollo 2030) (END) pos- people.
tulates among it specific objectives, “developing a cul-
tural offering that proves attractive for tourism activity,

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