No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
World trade was once the exclusive preserve of big business, run by transnational corporations more powerful than governments. Now the "free" trade they favor is the focus of public concern everywhere - globalization and the WTO have seen to that. But what"s the alternative? This book gives you a good idea. Dispensing with the marketing spin of orthodox economics, it tells the human story behind the things we consume. In the divide between consumers and producers, rich and poor, North and South, it discovers positive options that are already available on supermarket shelves. The threads of a complex issue are pulled together into a summary of key concepts and factual evidence - a lively, digestible and radical guide for the general reader as well as campaigners and specialists in development, globalization and international affairs. - Fair Trade Resource Network Research Team.
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2001 No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade 144
New Internationalist