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Fair enough? Women and Fair Trade [PDF]
Critical Perspectives on International Business, 2012 PurposeThis paper aims to consider the impact of Fair Trade on producers with particular reference to women involved in Fair Trade production.Design/methodology/approachThe paper considers Fair Trade as an alternative to rational economic models of free trade and as a tool for development.
Peter Stanley Thomas
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Who cares about Fair Trade? An introduction to the Journal of Fair Trade and the Fair Trade Society
Journal of Fair Trade, 2019 Pauline Tiffen
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International Trade and Risk Sharing in the Global Rice Market: The Impact of Foreign and Domestic Supply Shocks [PDF]
Asian Development Review, 2016 In the first decade of this millennium, rising food prices returned as a concern for policy makers, especially in developing economies. This paper examines how supply shocks, both domestic and foreign, impacted imports and consumption in the world rice ...
Shikha Jha +2 more
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Fair Trade - Is it Really Fair? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 One of the arguments against the Fair Trade scheme is that the guaranteed minimum price tends to depress world prices and thus the incomes of non-participating farmers (e.g. The Economist, 2006). We develop a model that distinguishes between the impact of the introduction of a Fair Trade market per se and the effect of minimum price policies given that
Tomas Konecny, Jan Myslivecek
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Fairness, Trade, and Inequality [PDF]
Journal of International Economics, 2008 Abstract We develop a model of international trade between two symmetric countries that features inter-group inequality between managers and workers, and also intra-group inequality within each of those two groups. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their managerial ability, and firms run by more able managers have a higher productivity ...
Hartmut Egger, Udo Kreickemeier
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Developing Fair Trade fruit supply chains from the forests of Senegal's Casamance
Journal of Fair Trade, 2021 As core certified Fairtrade products have become mainstream in the UK market since the late 1990s, Traidcraft Exchange has focused energies on bringing new innovative supply chains and new small-producer organisations into the ...
George Williams
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De Economist, 2002 This paper investigates to what extent fair trade programmes, are indeed ‘fair.’ This is accomplished by comparing fair trade with free trade and protectionist trade regimes on their compliance of the criteria set by the fair trade movement itself. This comparison is made using comparative cost based models and economies of scale models.
Maseland, Robbert, Vaal, Albert de
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Fair Trade: An Imperfect Obligation?
Global justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2017 Fair Trade is under fire. Some critics argue, for instance, that there is no obligation to purchase Fair Trade certified products and that doing so may even be counter-productive.
Nicole Hassoun
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East Asian Economic Review, 2012 This paper examines how a Korean automobile firm price-discriminates between the Korean and the U.S. markets. We argue that a Korean automobile firm's pricing behavior depends on the differences in price elasticity over the segmented markets between the ...
Woong Lee , Hyung Ju Hong
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Journal of Fair Trade, 2022 The Fair Trade movement is an alternative way to conduct international and domestic business by trying to improve trading conditions of disadvantaged producers around the world through consumer actions.
Zoia Pavlovskaia, Ali Kara
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