Very little of the money that consumers pay for goods goes to the farmers and workers who produce or grow the item. Fair trade shortens the trade chain and determines payments that take into account what the producer's needs are. This creates a living wage for the producer that can more r...
教会团体和工会——公平贸易的早期支持者——使用了“贸易而非援助”这句流行语,他们也认为国际援助要么是微薄的收入,要么是一种隐蔽的征服形式。如今,许多公平贸易确实包括援助:发达国家的志愿者提供服务,生产者及其工人也可以接受免费培训。
Women are the leading providers of agricultural work in many regions of the world, including in the fields of our organic farm partners in India. Learn how the Fair for Life fair trade program helps empower this female-led labor force through equitable wages, paid time off, and working condit...
How Fair Is Fairtrade? Very Fair, as It Happens. Paying That Bit More Really Does Help in a Concrete Way
Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper. In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today--...
How fair is Fairtrade? Fairtrade has experienced tremendous growth in the past years, but a lot of voices also criticize the initiative. Amartya Sen argues in his book “The Idea of Justice” (2009) that justice should be understood as existing to a matter of ... E Wallner 被引量: 7...
How Fair is Fair Trade?1 Robbert Maseland Albert de Vaal University of Nijmegen SOM-theme C Coordination and growth in economics Abstract This paper investigates to what extent fair trade programmes, are indeed ‘fair’. This is accomplished by comparing fair trade with free trade and protectioni...
FREE TRADE OR FAIR TRADE ? How Conducive Is the Present International Trade System to Development ? Fallacies in theories and contradictions in rules link their trade policy to their development objective; and follow a dynamic trade policy geared to their level of development, industrial capacity, ...
While the study does not criticise multinational involvement in fair trade, it argues that more needs to be done to highlight the differences to consumers so they can make an informed decision and understand how different levels of commitment impact on producers in developing countries. Dr Iain ...
How Nations Grow Rich: Case for Free Trade There can be no doubt, writes economist Melvyn Krauss, that the prosperity of the industrial nations since the Second World War has been due largely to global specialization and interdependence. No one country does all tasks today -- pro... Krauss...