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  South Africa Country Analysis

  National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2004

  This country analysis seeks to understand the extent, causes, and consequences of informalisation of the labour market in South Africa.It focuses on five main areas:
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  NEPAD, the city, and the immigrant

  University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004

  South Africa has experienced a large influx of migrants from other African countries since the early 1990s, reflecting the lifting of apartheid-era boycotts against travel to South Africa; increasing political and social turmoil, for example in Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria; and a growing economic crisis.
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  Migration and rural assets: evidence from surveys in three semi-arid regions in South Africa, India and Botswana

  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.
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  Coordination failure and employment in South Africa

  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 phenomenon.
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  What has the feminisation of the labour market "bought" women in South Africa?: trends in labour force participation, employment and earnings, 1995-2001

  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 participation, leading to a feminisation of the labour force.
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  Teachers as community leaders: the potential impact ofteacher migration on Education for All and Millennium Development Goals

  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 migration of teachers is an underemphasised aspect of globalisation, and potentially hinders the international goals of education for all and its wider impacts.
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  E-commerce for exporting garments from South Africa: digital dividend or leap of faith?

  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 overseas buyers.
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  South Africa and global apartheid: continental and international policies and politics

  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, and discusses possible alternative measures to fight against it.The paper argues that the main causes of "global apartheid" can be found in the right-wing neoliberal
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  Has the EU denied South Africa an equal place at the world trade table?

  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 imposes harsher liberalisation standards on South Africa’s agricultural exports than it does on Europe’s.
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  Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

  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 seldom manage to cover their running costs.

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