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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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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.
Thomas, Pete, McArdle, Louise
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023 Decades of interdisciplinary research suggest that fair trade certification may have significant implications for the development of more equitable and sustainable agricultural practices.
Alissa Bilfield, Edmundo Hernandez
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Sustainable consumption and fair trade development [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Currently, we find ourselves entrenched in an economic model reliant on fossil fuels and prone to generating waste. This model links development and expansion to the consumption of finite resources.
Musaeva Kheda
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Fair Trade Towns USA: growing the market within a diverse economy
Journal of Political Ecology, 2014 Fair trade is both a movement and a market, and the tension between these two domains reflects an ambiguity at the center of fair trade in the United States, resulting from long-standing debates within the contemporary movement.
Sarah Lyon
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FAIR TRADE [PDF]
Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, 2014 In this article we will present different theoretical views and positions on social entrepreneurship, fair trade, buying consumer behaviour and ethical consumerism.
Dejan Jelovac, Tanja Rihtaršič
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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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