Core Knowledge:
Pathways of Economic Growth Assessment
Professional development in the 21st century requires a working knowledge of the pathways driving economic growth. These questions challenge people to think differently about how and what they can do in order to achieve and sustain economic growth in today's ever changing global economy. Click here to reveal the answers.
Directions: The following questions are true or false.
1. Since the early 2000s a new development paradigm has emerged that links the economy and culture, embracing economic, cultural, technological and social aspects of development at both the macro and micro levels.
2. Central to the new paradigm is the fact that creativity, knowledge and access to information are increasingly recognized as powerful engines driving economic growth and promoting development in a globalizing world.
3. The emerging creative economy has become a leading component of economic growth, employment, trade and innovation, and social
cohesion.
4. The large majority of developing countries are not yet able to harness their creative capacity for development.
5. Domestic policies, laws and government regulations the world over are current and allow for people to freely utilize
creativity.
6. The creative economy offers developing countries a feasible option and new opportunities to leapfrog into emerging high-growth areas of the world economy.
7. Global exports of creative goods and services -- products such as arts and crafts, audiovisuals, books, design work, films, music, new media, printed media, visual and performing arts, and creative services — more than doubled between 2002 and 2008, the report notes.
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