Insights #47

		Insights
		Issue #47
		Globalisation and employment
		Globalisation and manufacturing employment
		Cutting cloth to fit
		The poverty aspects of female employment
		Labour flexibility in African horticulture
		Smallholder production
		Restructuring and retrenchment
		Foreign direct investment in Latin America
		Globalisation and the demand for skills in South Africa
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Glossary

Upgrading
moving to higher value products, improving technology or taking on more complex functions within a value chain

Textile industry
produces yarn and fabrics as opposed to garments

Trade liberalisation
a reduction in tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade

Value added
the value which a process adds to the value of inputs

Value chain
involves the range of activities required to take a product from design stage through production and delivery to final consumers

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