“The Creative Wealth of Nations”

Welcome to 2015!  I’d like to start off the new year by bringing your attention to the work of one of my favorite ever Fletcher students, Patrick Kabanda, F13.  I first met Patrick many years before he applied to Fletcher, and it was always the greatest of pleasures to see him around the building during his two years here.  Recently I learned that a policy research working paper he wrote was published by the World Bank Group.  The paper, “The Creative Wealth of Nations: How the Performing Arts Can Advance Development and Human Progress,” has a foreword by Nobel Prize winning economist, Amartya Sen and was adapted from Patrick’s thesis, “Where Culture Leads, Trade Follows, a Framework for Developing Uganda’s Music as International Trade in Services.”  It explores how the World Bank can increase cultural activities as part of its development strategy.