The Role of Culture in the Economic Development

Cultural development was studied in this paper. Based on the fact that culture is one of the important and basic components of development in each country; therefore it is merit to know that until several past decades it was the idea of a majority of experts that development implies only an economic meaning. In other words the development has only one dimension and countries tried to promote only their economics to make development. This idea has changed due to failure of countries that have only taken economic criteria in their programming for reaching development. After that the mono dimensional development concept began to disappear. Now it is obvious that cultural development is the base of any kind of development. Therefore; the governments should change their attitudes to human beings as a cultural entity because the cultural development is the base of any kind of real and sustained development.