Evidence in Development: Does Fair Trade support development? Fair Trade is a charitable organisation that was founded in 1992 in order to promote sustainable production whilst fulfilling the farmer’s full potential in a fair and ethical way. Fair Trade have become a successful and well-known brand in a relatively short space of time‚ with Fair Trade products being sold in more than 125 countries and UK figures on Fair Trade sales reaching £1.5 billion in 2012.(Fair Trade ) Part of the reason
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“...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence‚ empathy‚ equity‚ personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed.” Jonathon Porritt Globalization and sustainability are forces that are in constant competition. In this global game there emerges a clear victor and an inevitable loss. As a political‚ social‚ and economic force‚ globalization has expanded to encompass
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Sustainable Development (SD) Performance Measurement in the Mauritian context. PROBLEM STATEMENT We want to measure Sustainable Development (SD) Performance in the Mauritian context. Today we have reached a point where it not very clear if Mauritius has a weak sustainability or a strong sustainability. Due to the intensity of economic (boom in the Business Process Outsourcing sectors leading to construction of more buildings‚ industrial developments and increase in use of IT equipment)‚ social
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Economy Volume 28 2002 Pages 109-126 The Role of FDI in Economic Development Kjetil Bjorvatn Hans Jarle Kind Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås This article can be dowloaded from: http://www.nopecjournal.org/NOPEC_2002_a08.pdf Other articles from the Nordic Journal of Political Economy can be found at: http://www.nopecjournal.org Kjetil Bjorvatn NHH‚ Hans Jarle Kind‚ SNF and Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås‚ SNF* The Role of FDI in Economic Development This paper deals with two questions: First‚ what are the
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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM ~ ELIMINATING POVERTY (ST~EP) INTRODUCTION : At the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg‚ South Africa in August 2002‚ the World Tourism Organization (WTO)‚ supported by UNCTAD‚ took a global lead in this field‚ launching the concept of ‘Sustainable Tourism as an effective tool for Eliminating Poverty’ (ST~EP)‚ and beginning the process of putting a program in place to implement the concept. This initiative linked the longstanding WTO pursuit of Sustainable
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT The entrepreneur who is a business leader looks for ideas and puts them into effect in fostering economic growth and development. Entrepreneurship is one of the most important input in the economic development of a country. The entrepreneur acts as a trigger head to give spark to economic activities by his entrepreneurial decisions. He plays a pivotal role not only in the development of industrial sector of a country but also in the development of farm and service
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H. Cole‚ "Entrepreneurship is activity of an individual‚ undertaken to initiate‚ maintain or aggrandize profit by production or distribution of economic goods and services." According to Schumpeter‚ "Entrepreneurship is based on purposeful and systemic innovation. It included not only the independent businessman but also company directors and managers who actually carry out innovative functions". Need For Entrepreneurship Development: Economic development essentially means a process of upward
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FACTORS AFFECTING GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE GAMBIA. Gender is about both women and men‚ their socially defined roles‚ responsibilities‚ and the power and other relations between them. Like race‚ ethnicity‚ and class‚ being male or female shapes individuals’ opportunities to participate in the economy and society. Looking at gender in the sustainable development sectors means assessing males’ and females’ different needs for and uses of the infrastructure‚ services and other benefits of each
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Difference between Economic Growth and Economic Development :- Economic Growth is an issue considered by economically developed countries which have utilized many of their resources and now plan to expand even further by growth. It is a narrower concept than Economic Development as it focuses on the further increase of the national output of a country by increasing the quality of resources‚ the quantity produced and increasing utilization by every sector of the economy. We can also say it is defined
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OUTLINE FOR SOCIAL STUDIES ESSAYS Background THESIS: Organizational statement 1. The Industrial Revolution in Britain has greatly improved people’s quality of life. New machines were built in factories which is one of the main improvements that affected positively on the people. The Industrial Revolution in Britain mostly improved people’s quality of life by improving the social classes and spreading the wealth more equally. Topic Sentence: A big impact on people’s working
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