ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The special UN thematic debates on culture and development in the period prior to the elaboration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were marked by the absence of representatives from developed countries. The book explains the work of Ydice is the contemporary transformation of culture into a resource. It describes how the attempts that emerged over the 2000s to enshrine a new framework of international cultural policy have pinned many of their arguments on principles aimed at creating a new ethical framework of cultural diversity for the era of neoliberal globalisation. The book explains how many of the problems concerning culture and development as they were formulated in the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) era came to be brushed aside and into the dustbin of history as neoliberalism became globally ascendant in the 1980s.
