Ken Costa Chairman: Europe‚ Middle East and Africa UBS Investment Banking Department 2 Finsbury Avenue London EC2M 2PP Cass Business School 2 March 2006 EMBARGO UNTIL 19:30pm 2 March 2006 The Trilemma of Globalisation: Free Trade‚ Fair Trade or Fear Trade In discussing the challenges presented by today’s diverse global environment few topics can be as important as the issue of globalisation. It is at the heart of the structural change that has taken place in our generation as borders have
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thanks to the trading system. Unlike trade in general‚ Fair trade gives farmers more benefits. According to Fair trade International (2011)‚ the sales of Fairtrade certified products grew 15% and in 2009‚ Fairtrade certified sales amounted to approximately €3.4 billion worldwide from 2008 to 2009. Thus‚ Fair Trade has become one of the fastest growing markets in the world with more than 70 countries where Fair trade products are sold. The stories of Fair trade seem to be successful but it bases on
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Community Fair Trade (CFT) programme sources high-quality natural ingredients‚ gifts and accessories from the four corners of the globe‚ while helping to bring about social change among the smallholders and artisans who produce them. Based on the principles of fair trade‚ CFT provides access to a market that would otherwise be out of reach to these people and their communities. CFT has T hree obje CT ives: 1 To source high-quality ingredients‚ gifts and accessories in a fair way 2 By
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today because we want you to join our campaign against the slave trade. Britain has been active in the slave trade for over 100 years with about 47‚000 slaves travelling to America from Africa with our ships every year and on average 1 slave ship sailed every week from a British port. From 1698-present around 18 million slaves have been taken against their will and this is what we want to stop. I feel very strongly against the slave trade as I have read some first hand accounts of the terrible manner
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I enjoy a cup of organic fair trade coffee in the mornings. I have done this for a few months now. After I drink a big glass of water‚ I follow-up with the best organic coffee. For now‚ it has replaced my morning cup of green tea. Studies on caffeine continue and as each one comes to light‚ drinking coffee is no longer the dreaded bearer of health problems. For years‚ I didn’t drink coffee I avoided the caffeine. Because I like to keep my body clean and mean and I was under the impression the
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Hoff had a vision to implement a fair trade business that would increase not only profits of the farmers but their overall lifestyles. Nico and Frans both face the problem of distribution because fairly traded coffee was distributed only through the so-called Third World Shops that didn’t generate enough demand to create a stable supply chain. The possible alternatives to this problem would be for them to create their own brand of coffee‚ advertise the rise of fair trade coffee and its great quality
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You’ve probably heard of "fair trade coffee‚" but may not be quite clear on what it actually is. It refers more to a practice than a type of coffee‚ and the emphasis is definitely on the word "fair." Before fair trade was introduced‚ the big â�� very‚ very big â�� business of coffee was all about the huge corporations‚ and maximizing their profits. This meant that most of the billions of dollars made from coffee growing went mostly into those corporations’ pockets‚ but was also funneled to the
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profit most from fair trade sales. They charge a premium for fair trade bananas‚ for example‚ while a "minuscule sliver ends up with the people the movement is designed to help"... Here is more. In case you don’t know‚ fair trade sells a product at a premium price‚ under the promise that the workers are treated better and paid more. But will that improve living standards? Hmm...this sounds like a problem in tax incidence theory. To make the best possible case for fair trade‚ I will assume the
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Supply Chain Management and Fair Trade Executive Summary Resources are scarce and overstretched as a result of the fiercely competitive global environment which is as a result of globalisation‚ population increment and development of new technologies. On the basis of food food supply chain’s dependency on these scarce resources‚ sustainability of food has to be adopted through various approaches – the conventional approach (freetraide food supply chain) and the alternative approach (fairtrade
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revolution‚ which was a radical change for everyone. It increased productivity/profits and brought fear among people of outsourcing. The civil rights movement is a social movement. It aimed for change for a group of individuals but changed society. Fair trade is a social movement‚ which aims to help producers in poorer countries
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