This paper analyzes the extent to which fair trade organizations increase wages for rural poor women in Bangladesh. Fair trade is a fusion of market-oriented business with grass-roots activism attempting to reduce poverty through market mechanisms by creating trading partnerships between poor...

Some African food markets can still seem to operate inefficiently after price liberalisation. This seems mainly due to the existence of significant transaction costs because of small-scale operations, and is influenced by lack of grading, deficient infrastructure and information systems. It is...

Too often macroeconomic trends and long term growth prospects are considered in isolation from the very real effect of the physical, social and economic structures. This is particularly so in the case of Angola as its huge flows of revenue from mineral exports collide with the legacy of external...