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Where does the Fair Trade money go? How much consumers pay extra for Fair Trade coffee and how this value is split along the value chain

Naegele, Helene - In: World Development 133 (2020), pp. --

Fair Trade certification aims at transferring wealth from the consumer to the farmer; however, coffee passes through … estimates how much more consumers are paying for Fair Trade-certified coffee in US supermarkets and finds estimates around $1 … Trade-certified coffee, compared to conventional coffee. In the period studied in this study, the coffee farmer receives …

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The Impact of Fair Trade Certification for Coffee Farmers in Peru

Ruben, Ruerd; Fort, Ricardo - In: World Development 40 (2012) 3, pp. 570-582

uses a balanced sample of Fair Trade farmers and likewise nonFair Trade producers of organic and conventional coffee from …

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Effects of Fair Trade Certification on Social Capital: The Case of Rwandan Coffee Producers

Elder, Sara D.; Zerriffi, Hisham; Le Billon, Philippe - In: World Development 40 (2012) 11, pp. 2355-2367

. We conducted logistic regressions using data from a 2009 survey of Rwandan coffee farmers to estimate the link between …

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Diversification and Labor Market Effects of the Mexican Coffee Crisis

Padrón, Benigno Rodríguez; Burger, Kees - In: World Development 68 (2015) C, pp. 19-29

This paper analyses how coffee-producing households responded to the low coffee prices prevailing around 2003. We … provide theory on differential responses in regions dedicated to coffee growing, compared to more diversified or better …

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The Economic Sustainability of Certified Coffee: Recent Evidence from Mexico and Peru

Barham, Bradford L.; Weber, Jeremy G. - In: World Development 40 (2012) 6, pp. 1269-1279

products. Using survey data from coffee growers in Mexico and Peru, we explore the economic sustainability of certified coffee … rather than price premiums are most important for increasing net cash returns for coffee growing households. Given the link … between net returns and producer participation in certified coffee schemes, the findings suggest that certification norms that …

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Disentangling the Effects of Fair Trade on the Quality of Malian Cotton

Balineau, Gaëlle - In: World Development 44 (2013) C, pp. 241-255

The increasing importance of premium segments and private labels raise skepticism about the ability of Fair Trade to help smallholders compete in high value-added markets. Using panel data collected in Mali, this paper contributes to the debate by estimating the impact of Fairtrade certification...

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Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-national Comparison

Brown, David S.; Touchton, Michael; Whitford, Andrew - In: World Development 39 (2011) 9, pp. 1516-1529

Summary Efforts to explain corruption have increased dramatically in recent years. The interest stems from the increasing weight economists assign to corruption when explaining economic growth. A great deal of the research focuses on how political institutions influence perceptions of...

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The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal

Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 19-41

Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...

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Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach

Gerring, John; Kingstone, Peter; Lange, Matthew; Sinha, … - In: World Development 39 (2011) 10, pp. 1735-1748

Crossnational statistical studies show a positive relationship between the length of time a country has been democratic and its economic performance. Old democracies grow faster, ceteris paribus, and also demonstrate advantages in some economic policies thought to be conducive to growth....

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The Impact of Political Dependence on Small Island Jurisdictions

Dunn, Leslie - In: World Development 39 (2011) 12, pp. 2132-2146

This paper examines the connection between political dependence and welfare and development of small island … advantages and the relative importance of each on the welfare and development within the island. It is shown that politically … dependent islands have achieved significantly higher levels of welfare and development with some of the reasons being due to the …

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