LaRRI's Research
A key area of LaRRI's work is to provide policy-related research. During the past few years, one of the institute's focal research topics was the impact of globalisation and possible responses of the labour movement.
LaRRI has undertaken research projects on
- Export processing zones
- Labour hire
- Privatisation
- Challenges facing trade unions
- Domestic workers
- Farm workers
- Informal economy workers
- Petrol station workers
- Namibia clothing and textiles industry (Ramatex)
- World Trade Organisations (WTO)
- Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
- New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
- Basic Income Grant (BIG)
- History of trade unions
- Wage developments in Namibia
- Uranium and Gold mining in Namibia
- Chinese investments
- Poverty and inequality in Namibia
LaRRI has also prepared several discussion papers on topics such as union investments and black economic empowerment (BEE). Other areas of research included Namibia's labour market as well as the living and working conditions of workers on farms and in the informal economy.
LaRRI is a founder member of the African Labour Research Network (ALRN), which carries out research projects for trade unions across Africa.
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