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Globalization and the South African textiles industry: impacts on firms and workers

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  • Simon Roberts

    (School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

  • John T. Thoburn

    (School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)

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South Africa has been integrating into the global economy since the early 1990s through a rapid programme of trade liberalization. Its textile industry-an activity important in manufacturing value-added in most developing countries-illustrates the effects of this policy on firms and their employment and wage payments, which are among the most important channels through which trade shocks affect poverty in an economy. Exporting has been driven by trade liberalization, but the restructuring of firms has involved substantial falls in total textile employment, while production has stagnated. Labour productivity has increased and average real wage payments have risen. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Simon Roberts & John T. Thoburn, 2004. "Globalization and the South African textiles industry: impacts on firms and workers," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(1), pages 125-139.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:16:y:2004:i:1:p:125-139
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.1067
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    1. Simon Roberts & John Thoburn, 2003. "Adjusting to Trade Liberalisation: The Case of Firms in the South African Textile Sector," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 12(1), pages 74-103, March.
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