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Insularity and sustainability : an approach by the rents and the cultural heritage

Abstract

Macroeconomics of small island developing states (SIDS) are characterized by a strong dependence to the access to diverse rents, the evolution of which questions their sustainability. Considering the handicaps of narrow markets, the remoteness and the enclosing, the economic dynamics of the SIE rest actually on their capacity to exploit a specific comparative advantage, allowing the generation of rents. A development path would then emerge for the island economies based on the enhancement and differentiation through tangible and intangible cultural capital with the aim of strengthening the sustainability of their development. The objective of this thesis is to question the issues and possibilities of taking cultural heritage into account in the economic analysis of the sustainability of SIDS. The heritage, cultural, natural or ' mixed ' (according to the UNESCO typology), by its unique character would so have the potential to generate a rent, allowing to exceed the handicaps bound to the insularity. By proposing products differentiated, thus more expensive, the island economies could fit on the world market with a more important growth potential. From the point of view of the sustainability, it is then the conditions of renewal of the heritage, or in other words the differentiation of offered products by the island economies which come in the center of the analysis. Through two empirical applications, we draw several conclusions. At the macroeconomic level, our results show that cultural capital, in addition to possibly offering a source of income fueling adjusted net savings, would thus boost sustainability by reducing the potentially negative effects of structural vulnerability - by building a certain resilience. At the microeconomic level, our results show that intangible cultural heritage (norms, customs, traditions, etc.) can generate both economic and non-economic benefits.

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