Sugar and Garments

Table of Contents

10. Fiji: Sugar and sweatshirts, migrants and remittances

Sugar and garments

Scenario one: Migrants, settlements and the informal economy

Scenario two: Workers and remittances

Conclusion

References

11. End of the Line? Globalisation and Fiji’s Garment Industry

Introduction

The local/regional/global origins of the Fijian garment industry

The Tax-Free Factory/Tax-Free Zone scheme

The Fijian garment industry: Dependent development

New initiatives: Breathing life or buying time?

The impact of shifting from regionalism to globalisation: three chronicles

‘Local companies’

‘Regional companies’

‘Global companies’

The industry today and tomorrow: multiple futures

Who benefits from a competitive garment industry?

The end of the line?

Acknowledgements

References