Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Subject "Globalisation"
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Digital literacy: The quest of an inclusive definition
(AOSIS, 2018)Forces of globalisation and economic competition enhanced by, among others, the digital technologies, are radically transforming the social context. Digital technologies are characterised by a powerful and pervasive ... -
Forgotten by the highway: Globalisation, adverse incorporation and chronic poverty in a commercial farming district
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)This paper presents key findings from a livelihoods survey of households in four poor neighbourhoods in the Western Cape district of Ceres, one of the centres of South Africa’s deciduous fruit export industry (see Figure ... -
In search of South Africa’s ‘second economy’: Chronic poverty, economic marginalisation and adverse incorporation in Mt Frere and Khayelitsha
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007-11)Since 2003, South African policy discourse about persistent poverty has been dominated by the notion that poor people stay poor because they are trapped in a ‘second economy’, disconnected from the mainstream ‘First- World ...