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    Is the Ethical Trading Initiative improving labour standards?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is an alliance of companies, trade union and non-government organisations committed to improving working conditions in global supply chains. ETI members commit to require their suppliers to comply with the ETI Base Code: a voluntary code of labour practice developed in 1998. Has ETI improved worker’s lives?
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    Inflation targeting has helped stabilise the South African economy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    There have been important gains in the conduct and performance of monetary policy in South Africa over the last decade. Inflation targeting, introduced in 2000, and supported by fiscal restraint, has contributed to the much improved macro-economic stability in South Africa.
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    Knowledge and skills are needed to profit from ICTs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Economic growth, employee empowerment, flexible working practises, higher wages for women… . The economic and social benefits of investment in information and communications technologies (ICTs) are visible throughout the 'developed' world. Similar opportunities do exist in developing countries but policy changes are needed before firms can reap the same rewards.
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    Language, identity, modernity: the Arabic study circle of Durban

    Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2007
    The Arabic Study Circle, established in the 1950s, has had an enduring impact on linguistic, religious and cultural politics in the South African port city of Durban. This book provides a micro-history of a middle-class community through a study of this ‘Indian’ Muslim association.
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    Imagining the city: memories and cultures in Cape Town

    Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2007
    What is Cape Town? This book explores the apartheid legacies of Cape Town and demonstrates that cultural life flourished through people’s resilience in spite of adversity. It weaves oral texts and visual images of Cape Town to provide a historical, and a socially and culturally pluralistic perspective of the city. It contains 11 chapters divided into two sets.
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    Protecting sub-Saharan African textiles from Chinese dominance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Clothing and textiles are among the world’s most traded products. Large retailers and branded manufacturers control global production networks in which the demand is for low costs, high quality and rapid turnover. Consequently production is sourced from the lowest cost locations in developing economies.
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    Exploring the links between trade openness and employment in South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Supporters of globalisation argue that it boosts economic growth and creates jobs in poor countries. During the 1990s South Africa became increasingly integrated with the global economy. At the same time unemployment became a big problem. Has increased trade openness caused South Africa’s employment problem?
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    In pursuit of regional citizenship and identity: the free movement of persons in the Southern African development community

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2006
    The migration of persons across international boundaries in search of better opportunities or as a result of war, conflict and political instability has risen substantially.
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    “Keep your head down”: unprotected migrants in South Africa

    Human Rights Watch, 2007
    This report documents the human rights abuses encountered by migrant workers in South Africa.
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    Strategies and policies on TNC-SME linkages country case studies: South Africa (SDS RP70)

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2006
    This report documents and assesses selected South African experiences with regard to the promotion of linkages between Trans- National Corporations (TNCs) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

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