The concept of Fair Trade is false. In place of sustainable development, Fair Trade supports corruption, bad quality production, and economic inefficiency – tells newly published “Unfair Fair Trade” report written by Jacek Spendel from Globalization Institute.
The promises of Fair Trade sound very interesting to western people, who believe that through this smart institution they could help poor people and at the same time reward their good work. Unfortunately, the reality is much more complicated, as any of these goals could be met through Fair Trade, which seems to be the next purely ideological project with the only goal being to destroy free market capitalism. As the evidence shows, Fair Trade not only does not improve the living situation of poor people, but it preserves the undeveloped state of third world economies.
[...] Fair Trade fails almost in every aspect it promises to make a difference. Researching every single presumption brings us new evidence that shows that Fair Trade propaganda is simply nothing more wishful thinking, if not to say: lies. Constantly rising number of people screwed by PR magicians hired to advertise Fair Trade as the best program providing efficient solution for poverty, tells us how confused people are – concludes Spendel.
Full version of the report is available to download under the link:
http://globalizacja.org/download/Unfair_Fair_Trade.pdf [1]
For more information please contact:
Jacek Spendel, Project Manager
spendel [at] globalizacja.org
Tel.: + 48 668 447 877
Links:
[1] http://globalizacja.org/download/Unfair_Fair_Trade.pdf