Tag: Fair Trade

• September 1, 2015

  Links I Like [8.15]

  Does Fair Trade Help Poor Workers?  (Or read The Taste of Many Mountains) Turns out the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ report isn’t associated at all with actual ease of doing business Two ways to think about causality Science isn’t broken, it’s just really REALLY hard Three Things Secular Development Academics and Practitioners Can Learn from…
• August 4, 2015

  [Book Review] The Taste of Many Mountains

  I write this as I sit in a coffee shop sipping a cappuccino. The coffee beans were grown in Kenya. They had to be irrigated, harvested, packed into bags, imported, roasted, packaged again, transported, marketed, and brewed. The milk was likely farmed in the United States. It was taken from the cow, pasteurized, homogenized, packaged,…
• September 15, 2014

  Why We Do Rigorous Evaluation

  Over the past week there has been an interesting debate between activists and academics in the comments section of this article, entitled 10 Reasons Fair Trade Coffee Doesn’t Work by Bruce Wydick. As the title of the piece hints, Bruce isn’t the biggest fan of Fair Trade coffee. As you can probably imagine, this opinion is…