Less urbanised locations will probably face faster development of automation due to the prevailing type of work there. These ongoing processes may further increase labour market inequality between Lithuania’s regions. This leads us to the third challenge we are going to delve into today: regional disparity.
Fourth, as all of you know the large investment in balancing, modernization and replacement in textile industry during last few years will start paying dividends in form of better quality and higher value added exports. The share of value added items in total textile exports has already exceeded 60 percent and it is postulated that this share will be almost 70 percent by 2004-05.