Fair Trade For All How Trade Can Promote Development

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,Andrew Charlton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199887002

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Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development by Joseph E. Stiglitz,Andrew Charlton Pdf

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. 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 can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? To answer this question, the authors put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of all nations and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimize the costs of adjustments. The book illuminates the reforms and principles upon which a successful settlement must be based. Vividly written, highly topical, and packed with insightful analyses, Fair Trade For All offers a radical new solution to the problems of world trade. It is a must read for anyone interested in globalization and development in the Third World.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,Andrew Charlton
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199290901

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Fair Trade For All by Joseph E. Stiglitz,Andrew Charlton Pdf

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of alland not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimise the costs of adjustments. Beginning with a brief history of the World Trade Organisation and its agreements, the authors explore the issues and events which led to the failure of Cancun and theobstacles that face the successful completion of the Doha Round of negotiations. Finally they spell out the reforms and principles upon which a successful agreement must be based. Accessibly written and packed full of empirical evidence and analysis, this book is a must read for anyone interested in world trade and development.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,Andrew Charlton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199887004

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Fair Trade for All:How Trade Can Promote Development by Joseph E. Stiglitz,Andrew Charlton Pdf

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. 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 can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? To answer this question, the authors put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of all nations and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimize the costs of adjustments. The book illuminates the reforms and principles upon which a successful settlement must be based. Vividly written, highly topical, and packed with insightful analyses, Fair Trade For All offers a radical new solution to the problems of world trade. It is a must read for anyone interested in globalization and development in the Third World.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,Andrew Henry George Charlton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Commercial policy
ISBN : 0197710166

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Fair Trade for All by Joseph E. Stiglitz,Andrew Henry George Charlton Pdf

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton put forward a radical new solution to the problems of world trade, a solution that restores balance to the trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. Vividly written, highly topical, and packed with insightful analyses, 'Fair Trade For All' is a must read for anyone interested in globalization and development in the Third World.

Author : Ruerd Ruben
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789086866472

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The impact of Fair Trade by Ruerd Ruben Pdf

Twenty years ago, Fair Trade started as an effort to enable smallholder producers from developing countries to successfully compete in international markets. Better access to market outlets and stable prices are considered key principles for sustainable poverty reduction and stakeholder participation based on 'trade, not aid'. While Fair Trade is primarily conceived as a trading partnership - based on dialogue, transparency and mutual respect - seeking greater equity in international trade, it relies on an organized social movement promoting standards for production practices and delivery procedures, working conditions and labour remuneration, environmental care and social policies in supply chains of certified tropical goods. Over the past two decades, sales of Fair Trade products have considerably increased. After the first shipments of coffee, the range of products has gradually broadened to include fruit (particularly bananas, pineapple and citrus), tea, cocoa, textiles, cosmetics and a whole series of other products. Global Fair Trade sales have steadily grown to approximately EUR 1.6 billion worldwide, covering almost 600 producer organizations in more than 55 developing countries that represent close to a million families of farmers and workers. In recent years, efforts have been made towards mainstreaming of Fair Trade involving large international companies and retail chains. While numerous case studies and descriptive overviews are available to illustrate the importance of Fair Trade for producers and their families in developing countries, little quantitative evidence has been presented to review the socio-economic impact of Fair Trade. This collection of articles provides the first balanced in-depth analysis of the real welfare impact of Fair Trade, paying attention to key dimensions of income, consumption, wealth, environment, empowerment and gender. The core articles are based on extensive field surveys in Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya and Mexico, and provide valuable insights in the contributions and constraints for producers’ involvement in Fair Trade. In addition, attention is paid to the broader implications for international trade regimes and the ethical perspectives on Fair Trade.

Author : Laura T. Raynolds,Douglas Murray,John Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134002627

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Fair Trade by Laura T. Raynolds,Douglas Murray,John Wilkinson Pdf

This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South divide and lies at the heart of key efforts to reshape the global economy. This book reveals the challenges the movement faces in its effort to transform globalization, emphasizing the inherent tensions in working both in, and against, the market. It explores Fair Trade’s recent rapid growth into new production regions, market arenas, and commodity areas through case studies of Europe, North America, Africa, and Latin America undertaken by prominent scholars in each region. The authors draw on, and advance, global commodity and value chain analysis, convention, and social movement approaches through these case studies and a series of synthetic analytical chapters. Pressures for more radical and more moderate approaches intertwine with the movement’s historical vision, reshaping Fair Trade’s priorities and efforts in the Global North and South. Fair Trade will be of strong interest to students and scholars of politics, globalization, sociology, geography, economics and business.

Author : Laura T. Raynolds,Elizabeth A. Bennett
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783474622

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Handbook of Research on Fair Trade by Laura T. Raynolds,Elizabeth A. Bennett Pdf

Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers (typically in the global South) with progressive consumers (typically i

Author : Ndongo Sylla
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821444894

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The Fair Trade Scandal by Ndongo Sylla Pdf

This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but most of the benefit has accrued to the already wealthy merchandisers at the top of the value chain rather than to the poor producers at the bottom. Ndongo Sylla has worked for Fairtrade International and offers an insider’s view of how fair trade improves—or doesn’t—the lot of the world’s poorest. His methodological framework first describes the hypotheses on which the fair trade movement is grounded before going on to examine critically the claims made by its proponents. By distinguishing local impact from global impact, Sylla exposes the inequity built into the system and the resulting misallocation of the fair trade premium paid by consumers. The Fair Trade Scandal is an empirically based critique of both fair trade and traditional free trade; it is the more important for exploring the problems of both from the perspective of the peoples of the Global South, the ostensible beneficiaries of the fair trade system.

Author : Sarah Lyon,Mark Moberg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814796214

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Fair Trade and Social Justice by Sarah Lyon,Mark Moberg Pdf

Heroic Desire performs its title--bold, challenging, seductive, and compelling--a vital and exciting addition to the discourse on lesbian identities, their dissolves and perpetual becomings. Sure to incite and inspire." —Lynda Hart, Author of Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression "Right on the edge of exciting and daring new writing on lesbian representation. Moving beyond post- modernism's rejection of identity politics, Munt draws on a wealth of scholarship and personal reflection to refigure the heroic narrative in the service of lesbian liberation strategies. A thoughtful and thought- provoking book." —Esther Newton , State University of New York, Purchase "In Heroic Desire Sally Munt revisits identity politics through the figure of the lesbian hero. The result is one of the most exciting works of lesbian theory to appear in years. Written in a strong and engaging personal voice, Heroic Desire will excite, provoke, enlighten, and entertain the reader with this original insights into questions of lesbian identity, culture, and community." —Bonnie Zimmerman, San Diego State University

Author : Sushil Mohan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Anti-globalization movement
ISBN : 0255366450

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Fair Trade Without the Froth by Sushil Mohan Pdf

The Theory of Fair Trade; Is Fair Trade Free Market?; Benefits & Detriments of Fair Trade; Alternatives to Fair Trade; Fair Trade as a Long-Term Development; Conclusion.

Author : Alex Nicholls,Charlotte Opal
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446233351

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Fair Trade by Alex Nicholls,Charlotte Opal Pdf

′Today, Fair Trade finds itself at a crucial point in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to a mainstream economic model. As the only certifier in the largest Fair Trade market in the world, TransFair USA has observed the explosive growth in consumer awareness and business interest in Fair Trade certification. New research into the progress of Fair Trade to date and, crucially, its key future directions is urgently needed. Fair Trade is therefore a valuable and timely contribution.The range and depth of the book is considerable. It is international in outlook and engages with a broad spectrum of theory and thinking. Its style is approachable yet rigorous. I would strongly recommend it to industry, academics, students, policy-makers and the interested reader in general′ - Paul Rice, CEO, TransFair USA ′This work - a powerful study of the maelstrom of issues and cross currents in the Fair Trade and Development movements is long overdue. Through case studies, quantative analysis and reasoned arguement, this work makes its case with cogent force′ - Hamish Renton, Product Manager Food You Can Trust, Tesco ′With the fair trade sector growing rapidly, it is vital that the concept is understood properly and the future potential mapped out. Fair Trade provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fair trade which make it a "must read" for everyone from casual buyer right through to seasoned producer. Here′s your chance to see how you can easily change the world for the better′ - Mel Young, editor-in-chief, New Consumer, Britain′s only fair trade magazine, www.newconsumer.org. Fair Trade is at a crucial moment in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to mainstream economic model. This timely and thoughtful book looks at the strategic future for Fair Trade. Each chapter spearheads a key area of Fair Trade thinking and theory and the political, legal and economic context of Fair Trade is given careful scrutiny. Difficult questions are tackled such as `What is the role and value of corporate social responsibility?′ and `What is the brand meaning of Fair Trade?′ Throughout, readers are supported by: - Revealing case studies and useful data analysis; - Concise histories of different Fair Trade organisations; - Chapter summaries and conclusions.

Author : Michael Barratt Brown
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003399933

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Fair Trade by Michael Barratt Brown Pdf

The landscape of the world economy is changing rapidly, including new and much more powerful roles for the IMF and World Bank, as well as the rapid growth of wider free trade areas in North America and Europe. Current global trading arrangements, however, involve serious obstacles for exporters from the South as well as rivalries between the major economies. This book explores how the international trading system came into existence, the ways in which commodity markers work today, and why the poor countries of the South are facing not free trade, but unfair trade. It traces the stages of the world's economic development which has resulted in a this stark imbalance between North and South, following the chain of trade from crop to shop. The book's lessons are relevant to students, policy makers, and all those interested in a world trading system built on more than market muscle and the profit motive - a system that serves the interests of ordinary people everywhere.

Author : Mary A. Littrell,Marsha A. Dickson
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781565493780

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Artisans and Fair Trade by Mary A. Littrell,Marsha A. Dickson Pdf

* Addresses the cultural conditions under which artisan work provides a feasible income alternative to other employment options * Offers a methodology for assessing the socio-economic impacts of fair trade artisan work After agriculture and tourism, artisan work provides the next most significant source of income in many developing countries. Yet because of its image as a soft or frivolous industry, some politicians and development professionals question whether the handcraft sector is worthy of investment. An opposing view holds that the creation of sustainable employment opportunities for poor people and a positive alternative to mass production outweighs the costs. Until now, the debate has been hampered by a lack of industry data. The apparel group MarketPlace: Handwork of India serves as the perfect case study to provide this missing information. Like many fair trade companies, it has dual goals: to generate income in the global marketplace and foster the empowerment of the low-income workers who run and staff the business. In conducting interviews with MarketPlace’s artisans, managers, and founders, Littrell and Dickson produced an in-depth socio-economic audit of the group over time. The result, Artisans and Fair Trade, provides a quantitatively and qualitatively illuminating study of fair trade impacts and a methodology that is sure to inform current assessment practices in social entrepreneurship and business social responsibility.

Author : World Commission On The Social Dimension Of Globalization
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171884962

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A Fair Globalization by World Commission On The Social Dimension Of Globalization Pdf

Author : Duncan Macqueen,Annie Dufey,Bindi Patel
Publisher : IIED
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Anti-globalization movement
ISBN : 9781843696308

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Exploring Fair Trade Timber by Duncan Macqueen,Annie Dufey,Bindi Patel Pdf