PROBLEMS AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES FOR ARTISAN CRAFT PROMOTION : The Effective Promotion for Regional Development in Developing Countries (1)

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The Paper firstly states the main development objectives for promoting artisan crafts for regional development : Reduction of poverty, Traditional cultural heritage, and Improvement of the country's trade balance. It then defines traditional crafts and innovative handicrafts as the targeted artisan crafts for achieving these objectives. Identification and analysis of the problems follows, focusing on those hindering the sound accomplishment at Policy, Institution, and Producers' Levels. They are, among others, lack of coherent policy and measures, and decisive government intervention for human resource development (HRD), lack of support facilities, lack of recognition on traditional values and future potential, low craft quality, lack of cooperation among producers, low managerial and design capability. It puts forward recommendations in the end to overcome the identified problems to the promotion of artisan crafts. These are : Formulation of clear policy and future visions, Strengthening institution-building, Market development, Applying traditional values as a driving force for regional development.
日本デザイン学会の論文
2005-07-31