1 Introduction Globalisation and its relationship to poverty reduction is a subject of intense
debate among academics, policy actors and street protestors. Globalisation can be …

Lesotho, a resource-poor country located inside South Africa, is now Africa's largest exporter
of apparel to the US. Its performance, very unusual for Africa, relies heavily on Asian …

Many low-income countries (LICs) are integrated into apparel global value chains (GVCs)
through foreign direct investment (FDI). This is also the case in Lesotho, which developed …

Page 1 International Political Economy Series Pathways from Preferential Trade The Politics of
Trade Adjustment in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific Tony Heron º, --~ - - Page 2 International …

The majority of foreign workers in Malaysia are unskilled and more than half come from
Indonesia. Nowadays, labour productivity is the main concern of firms in a bid to reduce the …

This paper is one of the first to discuss service sector productivity in Palestine. We have
empirically addressed the main factors that responsible for growth in productivity in the …

Anew INDUSTRIAL POLICY FRAMEWORK was outlined by the South African Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI) in 2002. This Integrated Manufacturing Strategy (IMS) will …

Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall
societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book …

The feminist adage “the personal is political” is not ahistorical. It is being operationalized in a
time when the relationship between the private and the public is undergoing historic …

The impact of globalization on poverty is a key area of both academic and political debate.
However, the analysis of the relationship between the two, as it has developed so far, has …