South Africa and Globalisation
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Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Does village-level inequality lead to more migration?
- A. de Haan; J. Kirsten; J. Rwelamira / Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2003
- This study explores the links between inequality and migration in semi-arid areas in three developing countries. It draws on data from a household survey conducted in villages in three regions of Rajasthan, India; three parts of the N...
- Increased female labour force participation does not mean increased empowerment in South Africa
- D. Casale / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
- This paper examines the dramatic increase in the labour force participation of women in South Africa since the mid-1990s. While male labour force participation has also been increasing, it has increased more slowly than women’s p...
- South African move towards skilled labour has racial implications
- D. Fryer / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
- This paper examines the phenomenon by which South Africa lost more than 890,000 jobs from 1989 to 1999, but still had an increase in the number of skilled workers over that period. The authors construct a model to explain this phenome...
- Impacts of teacher migration
- A. Sives; W.J. Morgan; S. Appleton / Centre for Comparative Education Research, University of Nottingham, 2004
- This paper highlights the importance of the role of teachers in developing countries not only as educational leaders, but also in recognising their contribution to wider community and national development. The paper argues that the mi...
- Can e-commerce lead to greater access to global markets in South Africa?
- S. Moodley; M. Morrie; M. Velia / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
- This paper attempts to understand whether leading export-oriented garment producers in South Africa are using business to business (B2B) e-commerce to expand their reach into new markets, and to prepare and complete transactions with ...
- Deglobalisation to fight against global apartheid
- P. Bond / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2003
- This paper analyses the phenomenon of "global apartheid", an international system of minority rule whose attributes include differential access to basic human rights, wealth and power, from an African and South African perspective, an...
- Has the EU denied South Africa an equal place at the world trade table?
- Richard Gibb / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- The trading relationship between the European Union (EU) and South Africa is shaped by the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) signed in 1999. Far from giving preferential treatment to an ex-colony, the TDCA actually i...
- Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance
- Helen Pankhurst / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they...
- South-South scientific collaboration addresses developing country concerns
- D. Dickson / SciDev.Net, 2003
- Nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa and China are increasingly acknowledging that they share not only common social and economic challenges, but also common goals in international trade negotiations. This paper argues that new...
- Will world poverty increase or decrease in by 2015?
- S. Bracking / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003
- This paper argues that far from globalisation providing widespread opportunities for the poor in the short to medium term, the level of global poverty is likely to increase in absolute terms, in terms of incidence and depth. It presents th...
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