The creative economy, besides improving people's livelihoods, also raises individuals' social well-being, and is therefore considered an important driver of societies' socio-economic growth. The high speed of digitization of everything around us has made it possible to present new and innovative outlooks for the creative economy. In this new outlook, we are witnessing the dynamic growth of creative startups that create high-paying, up-to-date jobs for many people working in the creative and cultural sectors. In the ASEAN region (the countries of Southeast Asia), the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of online users by 70 percent. This has led to the budding of a digital market in which e-commerce revenue is forecast to exceed 80 billion dollars by 2024.
In ASEAN, efforts are under way to develop and promote the creative economy in this region. To support the region's post-COVID recovery, ASEAN leaders have adopted the ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework (ACRF for short). In this plan, the creative economy has been recognized as one of the key drivers that can provide a force to help the region's recovery in the post-COVID period.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian